Performance Gap Workshop

Date: 9th March 2022

Time: 08.30 - 16.30

Venue:  Telford Hotel, Spa and Golf Resort, Great Hay Drive, Telford, TF7 4DT

Understanding the Performance Gap - Design Intent and Actual Operation.

Research has found there is a huge difference between design intent and real-world operation of buildings, leading to higher energy consumption in practice than predicted at the design stage.

Join us for a one-day workshop where we will take you through our research journey illustrating what happened with the measured results of four new-build homes, built for a social housing provider.

Energy performance over a year will be compared with those predicted by SAP and a selection of modelling packages including Design Builder, PHPP and WUFI.

This workshop is suitable for practitioners currently designing, building or retrofitting concerned about:

•    Low energy design
•    Buildings that work as promised
•    Causes of poor energy performance 

Questions addressed by the event

• Why assumptions made at the energy modelling stage are critical
• How important is poor building quality in measuring the performance gap?
• Accuracy of the Veritherm overnight thermal performance test - are there limitations and what impact will this have on the industry testing & diagnostic capability?
• What is the impact of occupant behaviour?

Whilst this event is free to attend spaces will be limited.

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