A Round Robin Test for buildings energy performance in Italy

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1862-1877

  Tronchin, Lamberto ^a   Fabbri, Kristian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CEN Umbrella; Energy building simulation; Energy performance of buildings; Methods and methodologies; Operational rating method; Round Robin Test

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE; BUILDING SIMULATION; DATA INPUT; ENERGY AUDIT; ENERGY BUILDING SIMULATION; ENERGY DESIGN; ENERGY EVALUATION; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; HEATING PLANTS; INPUT DATAS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; ROUND ROBIN TEST; SELECTION OF SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VERSIONS;

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; LABELS; STANDARDS; TESTING;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 77955584360     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.05.022     Document Type: Article

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