The aim of my AccuRate assessment is to provide the chance to gain
a hands on
understanding of the Australian House Energy Rating system through
the input of
my own dwelling in to the software followed by a series of modifications
in order to
improve its thermal efficiency. This is aimed at developing my
understanding of not
only what we can do to enhance thermal performance, but also to
develop my understanding of why these modifications do or do not work.
AccuRate report summary:
As we can see when we compare the heating and combined cooling loads against each modification,
initially the heating loads of the house are significantly higher at 163 MJ/m².annum almost double that of the combined cooling load of 97.5 MJ/m².annum. However, by modification 12 the difference between the two has been minimised with heating at 27.1 MJ/m².annum and cooling at just 8.8 MJ/m².annum.
At the same time the total energy requirements have effectively been cut to less then a quarter
of the initial 200.6 MJ/m².annum to just 35.9 MJ/m².annum.
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