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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Neveen Hamza
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
In the UK, Dementia residential assessment wards are used to assess needs of people living with late stage dementia and behaviours that challenges, where personalized care plans are drawn. Poor homeostasis is a condition of ageing, people living with late-stage dementia who express thermal discomfort among other heath confounders using agitation and aggression as a proxy. To reduce agitation and provide thermal comfort, indoor temperatures are generally maintained between 22-24C, responding to a higher energy demand than other building typologies. This research investigates the impacts of tight indoor temperatures ranges, scenarios of climate change and a push by legislation to adopt passivehaus standards. An award-winning facility is used as a case study to assess changes on building energy demand per m2 to remove confounders of inappropriate design on results. And provide generalizability to other facilities. Results predict that climate change has a profound effect on reducing heating energy demand. The use of more insulative building fabric can also achieve noticeable energy reductions. A combination of more insulted building fabric and Climate change is predicted to decrease energy demand by 30%, but due diligence needs to maintain indoor air quality.
Author(s): Hamza N, Reid K, Anderson A, Townsend L
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA 2024)
Year of Conference: 2024
Pages: 578-583
Online publication date: 26/06/2024
Acceptance date: 01/03/2024
Date deposited: 26/03/2024
Publisher: Wrocław University of Science and Technology Publishing House
URL: https://plea2024.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PLEA2024_BOOK%20OF%20PROCEEDINGS.pdf
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/zvj9-6v13
