Methodology and application to assess occupant comfort, mechanical equipment, and energy use for an athletic facility

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Homesol, an Perth, Ontario-based building assessment and design firm with an extensive track record isseeking to develop a large net-zero energy athletic facility in Ottawa, that will serve as the Canadian Olympicgymnastics team training centre. Homesol will have the benefit of the next several years to assess the currentbuilding that is being used by their client so that lessons learned are applied to the new design. Notable issuesin the current building include relatively high energy use, thermal discomfort, and a strong odour. Thus, theyhave commissioned the researchers to use innovative data-driven means to identify and diagnose the problems,while also making design recommendations for how to resolve them for the new building. This will be the firstnet-zero energy athletic facility in Canada. Several major technical challenges include:-Athletic facilities are energy intensive because of high ventilation rate requirements.-Traditional thermal comfort models are not suitable for occupants with high metabolic rates (i.e., gymnasts),thus they cannot be used to estimate comfort.-Older buildings, such as this one, do not log high-resolution performance data.Several major innovations that will be pursued by the Carleton-based research team include: the notion ofcollecting self-reported occupant comfort data and correlating it with indoor environmental conditions;performing a long-term measurement-based audit using sparse sensors; and, using findings to directly influencethe new building design.