Impacts of climate change on the thermal and energy performance of mixed-mode office buildings
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46421/entac.v20i1.6166Keywords:
Thermal and energy performance, Climate change, Office buildings, Mixed-modeAbstract
It is essential to consider climate change when evaluating the thermoenergetic resilience of buildings, which can be estimated through computer simulations. Specific tools, based on the Morphing method, have been used to generate future climate files, used in predictive simulations. In this context, the objective of this work is to analyze the effects of climate change on the thermoenergetic performance of a mixed-mode office building located in São Paulo. Four future climate predictions (two for 2050 and two for 2080) were generated using the Future Weather Generator tool, based on the sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, from 2022. Building performance indicators were analyzed in terms of air exchange rate, air conditioning operating hours and cooling thermal load. Note, for future scenarios, an increase in thermal load of the order of 80% to 199%. The solar orientation of the office room proved to be the parameter with the greatest interference in the results and the solar orientation of the building the one with the least interference.
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