Reducing Simulation Performance Gap in Hemp-Lime Buildings Using Fourier Filtering †

Ljubomir Jankovic
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Ljubomir Jankovic: Zero Carbon Lab, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B5 5JU, UK

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 9, 1-16

Abstract: Mainstream dynamic simulation tools used by designers do not have a built-in capability to accurately simulate the effect of hemp-lime on building temperature and relative humidity. Due to the specific structure of hemp-lime, heat travels via a maze of solid branches whilst the capillary tubes absorb and release moisture. The resultant heat and moisture transfer cannot be fully represented in mainstream simulation tools, causing a significant performance gap between the simulation and the actual performance. The author has developed an analysis method, based on a numerical procedure for digital signal filtering using Fourier series. The paper develops and experimentally validates transfer functions that enhance simulation results and enable accurate representation of behaviour of buildings built from hemp-lime material using the results of a post-occupancy research project. As a performance gap between design simulation and actual buildings occurs in relation to all buildings, this method has a wider scope of application in reducing the performance gap.

Keywords: dynamic simulation; performance gap; hemp-lime; digital signal filtering; Fourier transform; post-occupancy monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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