Energy and Thermal Modelling
Stickland Wright have the in-house capabilities and expertise to produce detailed building energy modelling and thermal comfort assessments using IES 3D environmental software. We also offer modelling and analysis of detailed junctions within your building. This is to ensure that bridges for energy loss (cold bridges) are mitigated and condensation risks, within the building’s fabric, are eliminated.
Energy and Thermal Modelling
What is Energy and Thermal Modelling?
This service is essential for dynamic overheating assessments now required for Building Control compliance on more complex new build projects. IES modelling can also allow us to calculate accurate energy and carbon emission figures on a monthly and yearly basis to assist with demonstrating compliance with retrofit benchmarks and net-zero carbon strategies. In essence this 3D simulation can predict how the temperature in a building will vary from room to room, day to night and throughout the year.
Overheating Assessments
Due to the changes in the Building Regulations, in particular the new aptly named ‘Part O’, it is now essential to carry out overheating assessments for all new build projects. This has been broken down into two routes for compliance; Simplified or Dynamic.
The simplified or Dynamic method?
The simplified method is for more conventional projects or dynamic method for more complex projects or buildings where there may be larger glazing areas and there is a real risk of overheating in the summer months.
A thermal model is a 3D computer simulation that can predict how the temperature in a building will vary from room to room, day and night and through the seasons.
How we can help
Stickland Wright have developed specialist in-house tools for addressing the simplified overheating calculations and have also acquired the expertise to carry out dynamic thermal modelling and comfort assessments using IES 3D environmental software. modelling and analysis of detailed junctions within your building. This is to ensure that bridges for energy loss (cold bridges) are mitigated and condensation risks, within the building’s fabric, are eliminated.
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