Development of an assessment method for energy performance of residential buildings using G-SEED in South Korea

Abstract

A new assessment method for the “Energy Performance” issue in the Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design (G-SEED) was developed in this study. First, the corresponding issues in green building rating systems in advanced countries were reviewed and analysed, and then a new assessment method that uses dynamic building energy simulation programs was developed. The most important part of the new method was developing guidelines for modelling a reference building using simulation programs. Therefore, details of the simulation inputs for a reference building model were provided, and new guidelines were developed in this study. To evaluate the new assessment method, it was applied to a multi-residential building in Seoul, South Korea, and the results were compared to those from the current assessment method in G-SEED.

Keywords

• g-seed
• energy performance
• dynamic building energy simulation
• reference building
• multi-residential building