Abstract
A new room-sized test cell is being monitored in the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), to achieve a forthcoming zero-energy test cell. This small building located at the outer parking of the faculty, has the typical light construction of a building site office, with very poor insulation and almost no thermal inertia. These features make it very suitable for testing any thermal improvement. Initial measurements of its thermal behavior both in winter (cold spring) and summer (hot spring) cycles together with computer simulations have been performed. Both testing results and computer simulation are reported and discussed.
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Research by Juan Miguel Lirola Pérez was also supported by a PICATA pre-doctoral fellowship of the Moncloa Campus of International Excellence (UCM-UPM)
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Lirola-Pérez, J. et al. (2014). Energy Consumption and Thermal Behavior of a Light Construction Room-Sized Test Cell. In: Llinares-Millán, C., et al. Construction and Building Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7790-3_25
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