Energy Analysis Techniques: Queens Building

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ENERGY ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES: QUEENS BUILDING
ENERGY ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES: QUEENS BUILDING
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Name of the University
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Energy Analysis Techniques
Executive Summary
The measures taken to achieve efficient ways of generating renewable energy and
lowering carbon emission in existing buildings and the ones still in the process of design, is
significant enough to reduce the cost of energy. This has therefore increased the number of
national and regional policies regarding the promotion of better performance of buildings. Other
issues such as campaign against emission of greenhouse gasses, and other promotion like the
economic stimulus programs have driven the energy efficiency demand from commercial
buildings to be heightened. the methods used in performing energy assessments are sometimes
laborious and costly and therefore technology has been embraced to make this process easy. The
project herein is built on the promise of coming up with a better performing building that is
sustainable for posterity.
Figure 1:The huge windows allowing the daylight

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Figure 2: The building's elevation
This report is for conducting an energy audit for the building I have chosen called the
Queens building found in Montfort University in Leicester. This building has been known to be
the building used in benchmarking in natural ventilation, solar design (albeit done passively),
and daylighting. Queens building is mostly naturally ventilated, one fundamental feature of the
building is the fact that its structure exposed thermally, the structure made of bricks and
blockwork walls, and has exposed soffits to the concrete slabs in the floor. The floor area is
around 10,000m2 which comprises of mechanical, and electrical laboratories. The mechanical
laboratories are skirted on the western side which has a double storey block and has a mechanical
ventilation on the side of the specialised laboratory. Electrical laboratories on the other hand, are
enclosed in the shallow plan, which are four storey wings, with either sides of the courtyard
forming an entrance to the pedestrian.

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Figure 3:The Auditorium
The handing over that was to happen got delayed until 13th August 1993, this compressed the
initial commissioning and the fit-out that was to happen in six weeks’ time. As a result, the main
contractor didn’t deal with some pertinent issues on time, issues pertaining defects as much as
the client, the university, would have wanted them to. The building is still yet to be fully
commissioned and the building is grappling with the defects that resulted. Defects like the
control systems and mechanical systems, the mechanical ventilation, and electrical systems.
Building Description and Survey Findings
It was found that there was no enough space to describe the full building into details,
this was done by an earlier journal called Building Services Journal (Bunn, 1993). The
building’s architect had a very considerate design of the building making the building highly
insulated and the space between the floor and the ceiling was big that was meant to allow natural
ventilation and improve the building’s daylighting ability. Both the classrooms and the auditoria
located at the ground floor have chimneys that are ventilated. On the other hand, the areas where
the staffs are to be are on the upper floors are ventilated by rooftop ventilations. Air that comes
from the concourse goes through the drawing studios up the ridge ventilations which have the