Climate correlation

Occupants in natural ventilated buildings usually control ventilation through window opening. As part of the PRELUDE H2020 project a framework of how to predict an indoor environment by correlating internal environmental variables and external climatic variables was developed; this was presented at the AIVC conference in 2022. The climate correlation model consists of equations correlating external and internal parameters, derived from predictions of a thermal model (EnergyPlus) of the target building.

Occupants in residential buildings usually control natural ventilation through window openings. However, few studies have developed simple rules based on the outdoor weather forecast that can inform the occupants to predict the indoor condition by applying natural ventilation for thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ). This paper describes a model based on indoor/outdoor correlations, derived through simulations using EnergyPlus and CONTAM, to help occupants maintain internal environmental quality manually or through simple controls.