A study of energy efficiency on agriculture school building of UPC placed in Castelldefels Campus

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to find the energy efficiency of the agriculture building placed in Castelldefels, Barcelona. This has been achieved through the study of a lot of parameters. Firstly, we checked the location, the climate (winds, temperature) and the orientation of the building and of all the surroundings of it. After this, a very important parameter was to study the envelope design, the shell of the building. There we saw the four different sides of it (north, west, east, south), with different materials, different percentage of windows, some of them covered with persiennes, some other with double glaze and also the three patios (open areas) inside the building. We scannered all these things in order to find the rate of windows and massive in the whole building and understand how important is for a building like this (which is aimed at students) to gain the more daylight it can, in order to work properly. After this, we checked what kinds of materials have been used in each side of it (inside and outside). The goal here is to choose materials that improve the indoor air quality and energy efficiency, so we have a lot of aluminum, concrete and glaze. In addition, we calculated the watts that the fluorescent lamps which are consumed and we noticed that the price was within the limits that exist for schools. Finally, we made some excel tables with all the details of each floor and each classroom, where we can see the m2 of each classroom, the orientation, the number of windows and dimensions of them, the number of ventilations, the lighting and their watts, in order to have an aggregate table with all these information