Office at climate change

01.07.2009 - 01.09.2011
Research funding project
The following interdependencies and impacts of climate change for existing and newly built office buildings are, by now, predictable and common knowledge:  climate change will massively and negatively impact upon thermal comfort of office users by rising indoor temperatures  productivity of office workers is directly influenced by increased indoor temperatures  reduced thermal comfort thereby raises costs (as salaries make up for the single most im-portant budget point of the majority of enterprises)  in order to counteract, it will be necessary to implement mechanical cooling on large scale. Mechanical cooling strongly depends upon the availability of electricity at peak hours.  Due to significantly increased electricity demand this availability might generally not be guar-anteed everywhere at any time.  At the same time, the generation of the requested electricity involves emissions of climate gases which further induce global warming and further aggravate the above mentioned ef-fects. Project focus Taking certain Viennese office buildings as concise examples, the project aims at establishing a re-search routine for the investigation of climate change’s impact upon thermal comfort in both existing and to-be-built offices. Special emphasis is put on users’ behaviour and options of influencing it positively (in the sense of increased energy efficiency).

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Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Keywords

GermanEnglish
Nutzerverhalten consumer behavior
zukünftige Klimaänderungenfuture climatechanges
Erhebung statistischer Aussagen zu StandardbürosErhebung statistischer Aussagen zu Standardbüros
Abschätzung zukünftiger Entwicklungen im BürobauAbschätzung zukünftiger Entwicklungen im Bürobau
Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf das Nutzerverhaltenseffects of the climate change to consumer behavior

External partner

  • Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien, Institut für Meteorologie
  • e7 Energie Markt Analyse GmbH
  • Dr.Klaus KREC, Büro für Bauphysik
  • Universität für Bodenkultur, Department für Bautechnik und Naturgefahren, Institut für konstruktiven Ingenieurbau
  • Donau-Universität Krems, Department für Bauen und Umwelt

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