Central heating settings and heating energy demand in low energy social housing in the United Kingdom

Bruce-Konuah, A., Jones, R. V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2716-9872, Fuertes, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6224-1489 and de Wilde, P. (2019) Central heating settings and heating energy demand in low energy social housing in the United Kingdom. Energy Procedia, 158. pp. 3658-3663. ISSN 1876-6102 doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.895

Abstract/Summary

This paper compares the central heating settings and the heating energy use performance of six flats and two houses built to low energy standards (Code for Sustainable Homes Levels 4 and 5) with a near identical flat and house built to minimum compliance only (2006 Building Regulations). As low energy houses are only recently emerging in the United Kingdom’s social housing stock, and even fewer are subject to Post Occupancy Evaluation, little is known about their performance in terms of heating behaviour and energy demand. The results show that in general, the mean weekday and weekend setpoint temperatures, heating durations and heating energy use are lower in the low energy dwellings compared to the building regulations dwellings.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/108231
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.895
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Science > School of the Built Environment > Construction Management and Engineering Science > School of the Built Environment > Energy and Environmental Engineering group
Publisher	Elsevier
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