Verifiering av en kontorsbyggnads energianvändning

Sammanfattning: This thesis was commissioned by the department Fastighet (Real estate) at Umeå municipality in the spring of 2016. Since Fastighet represents Umeå municipality as landlords they are obliged by the Swedish law (2006:985) energy certification of buildings to declare a building’s energy use within two years after the building started operating. In this thesis an investigation was made regarding the energy use of an office building named Kuben, located at the city hall area in Umeå, Sweden. The purpose of the project was to investigate whether the building met the demands regarding its energy use. In addition an analysis was made during the project to indicate the reasons for the discrepancies between the energy consumption for the simulation model in IDA ICE and the measured energy consumption of Kuben in the year of 2015. According to the energy balance calculation in IDA ICE, it was found that the building was expected to have a specific energy use (BSE) of 52 kWh/m2,year, while in reality the building had a measured BSE of 91,1 kWh/m2,year in the year of 2015. Therefore Kuben did not fulfill the main requirement of the Green Building which is 90 kWh/m2,year, but it did however fulfill the BBR requirement. The reason behind the large deviation in BSE is primarily due to the occupants having used significantly less electricity than expected, combined with a higher use of domestic hot water and higher indoor temperatures than expected. Another detection factor that has further increased the differences is the fact that the ventilation system has been switched on basically around the clock during the year of 2015. Something which is very common during the building’s first year of operation since the building is setting and the construction body is in a dry-phase and emissions are being vented. To be able to perform a follow-up on a building’s energy consumption, it is very important to have access to real data of the energy sources included in BSE, in order to really be able to verify whether the building meets the requirement or not. It is also an advantage if there is a possibility to have access to lots of sub-meters, since it makes it easier to determine and verify the causes that lead to deviation between the energy use for the simulation model and measured data. It is recommended that a follow-up regarding the buildings energy use should take place during the building’s second year of operation or later, since the first year contains more reasons that can cause deviation and that the BSE is higher than normal because of the complications.