Resilient cooling in office buildings: case study in Belgium

To achieve future-proof buildings, it is crucial to design buildings and systems that can withstand to shocks (like heat waves and power outages) and reduce the impact of shocks on thermal comfort in a building. This is known as resilience to overheating.
However, shocks are not included in daily building design practice. Practitioners still have the question: “how to design a building that is resilient to overheating?”. To answer this question, IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings translated its results into Resilient Cooling Guidelines (Corrado et al., 2023). The case study from these guidelines is the subject of this summary/presentation.