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Energy Efficiency in Schools
Ref.: XVII/4.1031/Z/96-009
Responsável:
Engº Paulo José Limão Gata Amaral
Grupo de investigação (INESC):
A. Gomes Martins
Pedro Marques
António Almeida
Breve descrição
The main methodology components, namely concerning the
national participation in the project, are:
1. Perform an energy diagnostic of a set of 18 school
buildings at the centre region of Portugal, that have
been chosen to be representative of the school building
types available in this region. This diagnostic study
involves two types of procedures:
a)collection of data available on each school, namely on
the building and equipment characteristics, on energy
consumption, on the building population and habits, etc.
b) detailed energy audit of a limited number of schools,
gathering data on energy consumption, on energy
consumption patterns with recording instruments, on
environmental variables with data loggers, etc.
This analysis will lead to the assessment of several
indices which will allow a comparative evaluation of the
school buildings performance and possibly some
extrapolation of results, according to the fact that the
sample is representative of the universe of the buildings
in the region.
2: The former analysis needs the development of specific
tools, namely of software for data processing, which is
one of the project tasks. The requirements analysis has
followed the standard procedures for this type of
activity.
3: One of the school buildings will be used for a pilot
experiment on the use of efficient lighting technologies
and automatic control based on daylight avaliability, as
it is known that daylight is almost not accounted for in
everyday building users behaviour. A small control system
designed to be built with OEM components will be
installed in a certain number of rooms. These and an
equivalent set will be monitored for a certain number of
weeks, the second group being used as the control group
for evaluating results.
4: The project also contains a dissemination phase that
will consist of workshops with building users and,
separately, with engineers in charge of design and
maintenance of school buildings.
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