Planning Post Carbon Cities. Proceedings of the 35th PLEA Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture. A Coruña: University of A Coruña.

CORONATO, TANEA; CARRIL, A. F.; ALBONE, RITA; ZANINELLI, PABLO

La coruña, Galicia

Congreso; 35th PLEA Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture. A Coruña: University of A Coruña.; 2020

Universidad de la Coruña y PLEA

Buildings energy simulation is a powerful tool that allows addressing climate change impact studies on the BuiltEnvironment. Future weather files are required as forcings, so a methodology to generate them based on outputs from severalclimate models was proposed in this work. This approach retains both physical and temporal consistency from climaticvariables and removes the climate models? systematic errors. The variety of models allows assessing the uncertainties that arerelated to models and projections. The generated weather files were employed to evaluate the sensitivity of a social dwelling inRosario city (Argentina) to design modifications and climate change projections. The proposed interventions are found toproduce higher energy demand savings when the projected greenhouse gases concentrations are lower. As such concentrationsincrease, addressing impact studies becomes more difficult since the uncertainties associated to the results increase as well.However, as the house?s efficiency enhances, experiments start to converge and related uncertainties diminish.