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

Homesol是一家位于安大略省珀斯的建筑评估和设计公司，拥有丰富的业绩记录，正在寻求在渥太华开发一个大型的净零能耗运动设施，该设施将作为加拿大奥林匹克体操队的训练中心。Homesol将在未来几年对客户正在使用的现有建筑进行评估，以便将吸取的经验教训应用到新的设计中。当前建筑中值得注意的问题包括相对较高的能源消耗、热不适和强烈的气味。因此，他们委托研究人员使用创新的数据驱动手段来识别和诊断问题，同时也为如何解决新建筑的问题提出设计建议。这将是加拿大第一个零能耗的体育设施。几个主要的技术挑战包括：-运动设施是能源密集型的，因为高通风率的要求。-传统的热舒适模型不适合高代谢率的居住者（即体操运动员），因此不能用于估计舒适度。-旧的建筑，比如这个，不记录高分辨率的性能数据。位于卡尔顿的研究团队将追求的几个主要创新包括：收集自我报告的乘员舒适度数据的概念，并将其与室内环境条件相关联；使用稀疏传感器执行长期的基于度量的审计；并且，利用研究结果直接影响新建筑的设计。

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.