Case Studies - EPB Center

Case studies preparation

This document covers general topics and criteria for the selection of case studies, such as services to consider, climatic data, use profiles and sample buildings.

Case Study to EN ISO 52016-3 – Adaptive building envelope elements

This document presents the case study on EN ISO 52016-3:2023

Case Study to EN ISO 52016-1 – Heating and cooling needs and internal temperatures

This document presents the case study on EN ISO 52016-1:2017, Energy performance of buildings — Energy needs for heating and cooling, internal temperatures and sensible and latent heat loads — Part 1: Calculation procedures.

Case study on EN-ISO 52000-1 Overarching standard – Weighting factors

Understanding the weighting factors is a critical step in using EN-EPB standards as well as any other alternative energy performance calculation procedure.

Case Study to EN ISO 52000-1 – Overarching standard – Simplified cases

The collection of simple cases covers specific impacting features about EN ISO 52000-1

Case Study – Single family house

This case study demonstrates the complete calculation of the energy performance of a building and the related technical systems using the set of (CEN and ISO) EPB standards.

Case Study – Office building

This case study demonstrates the complete calculation of the energy performance of an office building and the related technical systems using the set of (CEN and ISO) EPB standards.

Case Study Multi-family house

This case study demonstrates the complete calculation of the energy performance of an entire multi-family building with 16 apartments and the related technical systems using the (CEN and ISO) EPB standards.

Case Study to EN 16798-1 Conditions of use

This case study concerns EN 16798-1, which is the standard that defines operating conditions inside the building.

Case Study to EN 15316-4-2, Heat pumps

This case study demonstrates the calculation of the energy performance of a heat pump using the current draft of the revision of EN 15316-4-2 and the accompanying updated spreadsheet.

Case Study EN 15316-1 Heating and domestic hot water systems, general part

This case study is focused on the standard EN 15316-1 which is the general module for heating and domestic hot water systems.

Case study on EN ISO 52016-1, Annex F, Solar shading reduction factors

Case Study to EN ISO 52010-1 – Climatic Data

This document presents the case study on f EN ISO 52010-1:2017, “Energy performance of buildings — External climatic conditions — Part 1: Conversion of climatic data for energy calculations”.

Case study on EN-ISO 52000-1 Overarching standard

Understanding the weighting factors is a critical step in using EN-EPB standards as well as any other alternative energy performance calculation procedure.

Case Study on EN 16798-7 : Natural Ventilation

This case study dutifully demonstrates the calculation of natural ventilation by coupling of the spreadsheets to the standards EN ISO 52016-1 and EN 16798-7

Case Study EN 16798-5 and 16798-7 : Mechanical Report

Implementation of mechanical ventilation standards in modern building design and energy performance assessment.

Template national Annexes

Standardized templates for implementing EPB standards at the national level with customized parameters.