Heat-flow variability of suspended timber ground floors: Implications for in-situ heat-flux measuring

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• 作者：S. Pelsmakers^a ; ^{s.pelsmakers@sheffield.ac.uk} ; R. Fitton^b ; P. Biddulph^c ; W. Swan^b ; B. Croxford^d ; S. Stamp^d ; F.C.F. Calboli^e ; D. Shipworth^c ; R. Lowe^c ; C.A. Elwell^c
• 关键词：building performance ; In-situ U-values ; Pre-1919 housing ; Retrofit ; Suspended timber ground floors ; Thermal performance
• 刊名：Energy and Buildings
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：138
• 期：Complete
• 页码：396-405
• 全文大小：1400 K
• 卷排序：138

文摘

Reducing space heating energy demand supports the UK’s legislated carbon emission reduction targets and requires the effective characterisation of the UK’s existing housing stock to facilitate retrofitting decision-making. Approximately 6.6 million UK dwellings pre-date 1919 and are predominantly of suspended timber ground floor construction, the thermal performance of which has not been extensively investigated. This paper examines suspended timber ground floor heat-flow by presenting high resolution in-situ heat-flux measurements undertaken in a case study house at 15 point locations on the floor. The results highlight significant variability in observed heat-flow: point U-values range from 0.56 ± 0.05 to 1.18 ± 0.11 Wm−2 K−1. This highlights that observing only a few measurements is unlikely to be representative of the whole floor heat-flow and the extrapolation from such point values to whole floor U-value estimates could lead to its over- or under- estimation. Floor U-value models appear to underestimate the actual measured floor U-value in this case study. This paper highlights the care with which in-situ heat-flux measuring must be undertaken to enable comparison with models, literature and between studies and the findings support the unique, high-resolution in-situ monitoring methodology used in this study for further research in this area.