Dataset of Operational Energy of Forty Andean Buildings from 1980 to 2020
Description
The files presented in this repository are structured in three main folders. The first one 01_OperationalEnergyDATA, contains a file named STOE.xlsx, which summarizes the operational energy data of the 40 sample houses. The second folder 02_SimulationDATA, contains 4 subfolders P1, P2, P3 and P4, each one of them allocates the ten simulation files (.dsb) corresponding to each sample and period (P). Moreover, the second folder contains three excel files, Building_Features.xlsx, Measuraments&Simulations_Results.xlsx and Measurements.xlsx, all of them related to morphological/materials characteristics and validation and simulation reports of each sample. Finally, the third folder 03_ClimateDATA, contains two files, Climate_Data_Forupdate.xlsx and ECU_CUENCA-_WEC_2022.epw, both related to the climate data needed for simulations. The detailed review of each folder is described below: 01_OperationalEnergyDATA The STOE (Specific Total Operational Energy), accounts for the summatory of space heating and space cooling (sh + sc), lighting and electrical appliances (l + e) and Domestic Hot Water and Cooking (d + c), divided by the total floor area of each residential building. This value is calculated for each of the forty houses in the study accounting both annually and a 50-years lifespan consumption. These results are shown in the repository in the file named STOE.xlsx. 02_SimulationDATA In First instance, this section presents the Building_Features.xlsx table that contains the raw data from the envelope materials of each one of the 40 sample buildings. The Measurements.xlsx file contains the raw data measured in situ from eight houses used in the study to validate the simulations. Furthermore, the Measurements&Simulations_Results.xlsx file, this table contains the raw data from each one of the eight samples measured in-situ and simulated in DesignBuilder accordingly. Lastly, this section presents 40 DesignBuilder Files (.dsb) one for each of the 40 analysed houses and stored in separate .dsb files, named using the format P#_S#, where P represents the period (decade), and S represents the sample number. Each file is configured according to the unique morphology and the materials are taken from the file Building_Features.xlsx . The intensity and schedule of lighting, equipment and occupancy were established as a common setting for all forty samples. 03_ClimateDATA To begin with, this section presents the file Climate_Data_Forupdate.xlsx is an excel table, which was created through the climate data gathered during July and August from the weather station ICUENC29 (coordinates: 2.89°S, 79.01°W, altitude: 2564 masl) Finally, the second file is ECU_CUENCA_IWEC_2022.epw which is an Energy Plus Weather file updated with the information collected from the meteorological station from July 1, 2021, at 12:04 AM to August 31, 2021, at 11:59 PM, with a sampling interval of 1-hour.