A Holistic Framework to Evaluate Energy Consumption of Heritage Buildings

The outcome of the proposed research on heritage buildings could benefit the industry, including EVOQ Strategies’ work as they have been involved in a number of projects on heritage buildings. Keeping the above in mind, the following general objectives are identified for the current research:
– Provide a detailed overview of existing technologies as well as the opinions of experts in the field of energy performance sustainability assessment for heritage buildings. Thus, in a sense, it serves as a benchmark for different researchers looking to design their own assessment tool.
– Develop a comprehensive model that is targeted towards the assessment of the sustainability-focused on energy efficiency criteria and life cycle analysis of heritage buildings. Although different tools exist that are employed to measure the sustainability of different buildings, the value of this work lies in its type-specific approach and novelty.
– Compile results from the comparative study and design, evaluate and test an assessment tool that takes into consideration the limitations of the existing tools and opinions of experts. For that, the following activities would be performed: 1) propose novel attributes including Heritage Value, heritage built form and Structural Condition that was not considered in any of the existing tools; 2) develop a scoring system to quantify the importance and added value of each of the identified attributes to the energy performance of heritage buildings; 3) develop a more informative sustainability scale that is representative of the actual sustainability rating for the energy performance criterion of the building.

Faculty Supervisor:

Ashutosh Bagchi

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Partner:

EVOQ Strategies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

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