Project Details
Description
MIESDOC is an innovative research project aimed at exploring the potential of future scenarios involving unconventional residential energy retrofit approaches. MIESDOC is part of the Built Environment Heat Transition (BEHeaT) program initiated by the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES). Within the broader BEHeaT program, research is conducted into the development of new technologies, materials, and dynamic models towards facilitating the energy transition in the Netherlands.
Background
Traditional approaches to improving home energy efficiency have primarily focused on extensive renovations and system upgrades. However, these methods may fall short of meeting climate goals in a timely and cost-effective manner. The potential of closer alignment between renovation solutions and the diversity of occupants' everyday energy practices, including adaptive temperature setpoints, has recently been acknowledged as an alternative to the mainstream renovation approach. Yet, current research limits setpoint ranges without considering occupant’s adaptation capacity, and the use of personal comfort devices, which have been recognized as a promising route for residential energy savings.
Therefore, this project explores the effects of adaptive setpoint temperatures that consider occupants' broader capacity for adaptation, coupled with personal comfort devices and occupant behaviour changes. These unconventional approaches could enable less intensive retrofits while still achieving significant energy savings. MIESDOC aims to expand this perspective, investigating an area that shows promise for household energy conservation but remains largely unexplored.
Project Focus
The main focus is to understand how these unconventional methods can capitalize on occupants' adaptability, personal comfort technologies, and evolving comfort norms in order to propose tailored retrofit packages that suit future domestic energy practices.
To address these aspects, our study employs advanced building performance simulations to investigate optimization potential in retrofit projects. This project considers both current and future energy practices, using resident data to model innovative energy consumption scenarios.
Key Research Questions
1. What is the optimal combination of energy-saving measures and adaptive setpoint strategies to reduce energy?
2. Which energy retrofit measures offer the best balance between initial investment and energy savings?
3. How do adaptive setpoint strategies in combination with personal comfort devices compare to traditional retrofits in terms of cost-effectiveness and climate goal achievement?
By exploring these often-overlooked aspects of comfort standards and user behaviour, this project seeks to unlock the significant energy-saving potential of unconventional solutions for future energy retrofit projects.
Background
Traditional approaches to improving home energy efficiency have primarily focused on extensive renovations and system upgrades. However, these methods may fall short of meeting climate goals in a timely and cost-effective manner. The potential of closer alignment between renovation solutions and the diversity of occupants' everyday energy practices, including adaptive temperature setpoints, has recently been acknowledged as an alternative to the mainstream renovation approach. Yet, current research limits setpoint ranges without considering occupant’s adaptation capacity, and the use of personal comfort devices, which have been recognized as a promising route for residential energy savings.
Therefore, this project explores the effects of adaptive setpoint temperatures that consider occupants' broader capacity for adaptation, coupled with personal comfort devices and occupant behaviour changes. These unconventional approaches could enable less intensive retrofits while still achieving significant energy savings. MIESDOC aims to expand this perspective, investigating an area that shows promise for household energy conservation but remains largely unexplored.
Project Focus
The main focus is to understand how these unconventional methods can capitalize on occupants' adaptability, personal comfort technologies, and evolving comfort norms in order to propose tailored retrofit packages that suit future domestic energy practices.
To address these aspects, our study employs advanced building performance simulations to investigate optimization potential in retrofit projects. This project considers both current and future energy practices, using resident data to model innovative energy consumption scenarios.
Key Research Questions
1. What is the optimal combination of energy-saving measures and adaptive setpoint strategies to reduce energy?
2. Which energy retrofit measures offer the best balance between initial investment and energy savings?
3. How do adaptive setpoint strategies in combination with personal comfort devices compare to traditional retrofits in terms of cost-effectiveness and climate goal achievement?
By exploring these often-overlooked aspects of comfort standards and user behaviour, this project seeks to unlock the significant energy-saving potential of unconventional solutions for future energy retrofit projects.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/01/23 → 31/12/26 |
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