Staszczuk, Anna
Gortych, Marta
residential buildings
Kuczyński, Tadeusz
Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
This study presents an empirical evaluation of winter heating performance in two full-scale single-storey residential buildings located in a temperate transitional climate in western Poland. The buildings, identical in geometry, layout, and insulation levels, differed in wall thermal mass and subfloor configuration. During the 2018/2019 heating season, the building with medium-weight masonry walls consumed 3.6% less heating energy than its lightweight timber-frame counterpart. In the following season, floor insulation was removed in the masonry building to enable direct ground coupling.
experimental monitoring
Impact of Floor- Ground Coupling and Thermal Mass on Seasonal Heating Energy Use in Single - Storey Residential Buildings in a Temperate Climate
subsoil heat
eng
tytuł dodatkowy: Prace z Inżynierii Lądowej i Środowiska
While this led to a 12.2% increase in total energy use, the difference emerged only in the latter part of the winter. Continuous ground temperature monitoring confirmed that subsoil heat retained from summer acted as a thermal buffer, delaying the onset of increased losses. The actual energy penalty was substantially lower than predicted by standard calculation methods, indicating that steady-state models may overestimate seasonal ground-related losses. These findings highlight the dynamic nature of heat exchange between buildings and the ground and support the use of mass-based and soil-coupled envelope strategies as effective tools for improving seasonal energy efficiency and resilience in temperate climates increasingly affected by climate variability and power supply risks.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports (CEER), no 36, vol. 1
application/pdf
CC 4.0
winter heating demand
Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
energy performance
Kuczyński, Tadeusz - red.
thermal mass
ground coupling
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