The object of the examination is a typical office building of the 1990s, owned by a multinational company -Siemens- dedicated to energy awareness. The building also meets the energy efficiency category ‘A’ under the 7/2006 TNM Hungarian regulations concerning the energy performance definition of buildings. However, demand has emerged to implement additional changes to reduce energy usage whilst keeping the current climate comfort or even improving it. International experience forecasts around 30% energy saving potential due to optimization of the building automation and energy management system, and thus the interaction and collaboration between the building geometry, structures and services systems. The project has been built in the IDA ICE complex building energy simulation program. Running a one-year dynamic simulation will provide data that can be compared with the measured data of the actual building, so the model can be adjusted and validated to real data. After the calibration it is now possible to test the ideas under safe conditions, in a virtual surrounding. Once a particular vision of the model is proven to work effectively, it is possible to apply this to the real building control management as well.
Directive 2010/31/EU of the European parliament and of the council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings, I.153/17 Article 1, 2. (c) (i) European Commission
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On the basis of Eltinga - Eltecon center for real estate research, Working paper (in Hungarian) No. 1, 2012, pp. 16.
MOMentum office building Budapest, Csörsz u. 49-51 original architect Antal Jantner 1965, Architect Gyula Csizmár, Gábor Kővári, Piroska Mihalik, József Kamasz, 2009
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