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Energy Procedia 111 (2017) 226 – 234

8th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB-16, 11-13 September
2016, Turin, ITALY

Simulation Based Analysis on the Energy Conservation Effect of

Green Wall Installation for Different Building Types in a Campus
Sinchita Poddar, Dong Yoon Park, Seongju Chang*
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-
gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea

Abstract

The energy consumption behaviour in campus buildings are less well understood than other non-domestic buildings.
Energy simulation analysis is a beneficial method in measuring building energy consumption as well as investigating
different energy management strategies for the existing buildings. This research has been established through
investigating the heating and cooling load reduction potential of green wall as an energy saving measure for three
different activity buildings (i.e., research, dormitory and administration) at KAIST campus, using a simulation tool.
The focus has been facilitated while exploring how different functional buildings act in response to vertical vegetation
in terms of energy savings, considering operational pattern, occupancy schedule and physical characteristics as the
deciding parameters. Maximum occupancy during night time in dormitory turned out to be advantageous for reduced
heating energy consumption (60%) compared to the research (7%) and administrative (3%) building, which are mostly
cooling and day-time dominated. This is because; the largest savings in heating due to vegetation were associated with
extreme temperature condition, which is close to zero or sub-zero. Conversely, in summer, vegetation led to become
less effective in saving cooling energy, especially for the research and administrative facility where cooling is crucial
due to daytime dominated occupancy. Moreover, the cooling energy savings was found to be closely associated with
the area covered by plants irrespective of opaque wall and fenestrations
© 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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Peer-review under responsibility of KES International.
Keywords: Green wall; Campus buildings; Occupancy; Energy saving measure; Energy simulation

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +82-42-350-3627

E-mail address: schang@kaist.ac.kr

1876-6102 © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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Peer-review under responsibility of KES International.
doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.024