Peter Holzer

Peter Holzer
Independent Researcher

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.

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Introduction
Engineer, dedicated researcher, teacher and consultant for sustainable building design. Holding a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD from the faculty of Architecture, both Technical University of Vienna, Austria. Directing an Consultancy Office, www.jung-ingenieure.at and being associate of Institute of Building Research & Innovation, both in Vienna. Research interests: sustainability of built environments, indoor environmental quality, thermo-physiology, low-tec-buildings.

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Publications (24)
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We present unprecedented datasets of current and future projected weather files for building simulations in 15 major cities distributed across 10 climate zones worldwide. The datasets include ambient air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, direct and diffuse solar irradiance, and wind speed at hourly resolution, which are essentia...
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We present unprecedented datasets of current and future projected weather files for building simulations in 15 major cities distributed across 10 climate zones worldwide. The datasets include ambient air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, direct and diffuse solar irradiance, and wind speed at hourly resolution, which are essentia...
Technical Report
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Within Annex 80, there is a manifold need to use key performance indicators (KPI, i.e. performance met rics). This is relevant to all Subtasks. The “Task Group KPI” is established to coordinate and clarify the KPIs, used within Annex 80. The Task Group shall collect and coordinate KPIs, relevant to Resilient Cool ing. It shall develop and constantl...
Technical Report
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The world is facing a rapid increase of air conditioning of buildings. It is the motivation of Annex 80 to develop, assess and communicate solutions of resilient cooling and overheating protection. Resilient Cooling is used to denote low energy and low carbon cooling solutions that strengthen the ability of individuals and our community to withstan...
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With the ongoing significance of overheating calculations in the residential building sector, building codes such as the European Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD) are essential for harmonizing the indicators and performance thresholds. This paper investigates Europe's overheating calculation methods, indicators, and thresholds and ev...
Technical Report
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International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities (IEA EBC) Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings promotes a rapid transition to the mainstream and preferred use of resilient low-energy and low-carbon cooling systems in buildings. Annex 80 Subtask D (Policy Actions) advances policy-related endeavors that support energy efficiency a...
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The world is facing a rapid increase of air conditioning of buildings. It is the motivation of Annex 80 to develop, assess and communicate solutions of resilient cooling and overheating protection. Resilient Cooling is used to denote low energy and low carbon cooling solutions that strengthen the ability of individuals and our community to withstan...
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The concept 'Resilience' has gained wide international attention by experts and is now seen as the future target for the design of buildings. However, before using the word 'resilience', we must understand the semantics of the word. Resilience is not 'resistance' and is not 'robustness and is not 'sustainability', it is a more complex definition. A...
Technical Report
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IEA EBC Annex 80 - Dynamic simulation guideline for the performance testing of resilient cooling strategies
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Over the last decades overheating in buildings has become a major concern. The situation is expected to worsen due to the current rate of climate change. Many efforts have been made to evaluate the future thermal performance of buildings and cooling technologies. In this paper, the term “climate change overheating resistivity” of cooling strategies...
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The concept of climate resilience has gained extensive international attention during the last few years and is now seen as the future target for building cooling design. However, before being fully implemented in building design, the concept requires a clear and consistent definition and a commonly agreed framework of key concepts. The most critic...
Technical Report
The world is facing a rapid increase of air conditioning of buildings. This is driven by multiple factors, such as urbanisation and densification, climate change and elevated comfort expectations together with economic growth in hot and densely populated climate regions of the world. The trend towards cooling seems inexorable therefore it is mandat...
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Background: Sunlight exposure and high vitamin D status have been hypothesised to reduce the risk of developing dementia. The objective of our research was to determine whether lack of sunlight and hypovitaminosis D over time are associated with dementia. Methods: We systematically searched MEDLINE (via PubMed), Cochrane Library, EMBASE, SCOPUS,...
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The term of “Active House” recently developed, addressing houses which target a balanced optimization of indoor environmental quality, energy performance and environmental performance. A lively international network, the “Active House Alliance”, has been founded and numerous pilot projects in a widespread range of nations and climates have been ere...
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The thermal comfort of the residential building Sunlighthouse in Austria is investigated with a particular focus on the summer situation and the role of solar shading and natural ventilation. The house has generous daylight conditions, and is designed to be CO2 neutral with a good indoor environment. The thermal environment is evaluated according t...
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The thermal comfort of the residential buildings Sunlighthouse in Austria and LichtAktiv Haus in Germany are investigated with a particular focus on the summer situation and the role of solar shading and natural ventilation. The houses have generous daylight conditions, and are designed to be CO2 neutral with a good indoor environment. The thermal...
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The term of “Active House” recently developed, addressing houses that target a balanced optimization of indoor environmental quality, energy performance and environmental performance. According to the idea of not only being energy efficient and eco-friendly, Active Houses equally focus on indoor environmental qualities, in particular daylight and a...
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The thermal comfort of the residential buildings Home for Life in Denmark, LichtAktiv Haus in Germany and Sunlighthouse in Austria is investigated with a particular focus on the control strategies and the role of solar shading and natural ventilation (ventilative cooling). The houses are three of six buildings in the Model Home 2020 project. They h...
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According to researchers, climate change is inevitable in the 21st century. As far as Greece is concerned, this climate change will be related to an increase in ambient surface temperature and to a decrease in annual precipitation. On the other hand wind patterns will not change significantly. Also, no significant changes are expected for global so...
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The climate of Greece is typical Mediterranean with wet, cool winters and hot, dry summers. The temperature range is on average between 5°C to 35°C without many extreme temperatures and weather events. The cool sea breeze on the islands makes summer conditions milder. According to researchers and assessment reports of the United Nations climate cha...
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Daylight is increasingly understood as an important aspect of indoor comfort. Recent research proves daylight being both a crucial contribution to visual comfort and a source of health and wellbeing. There are good reasons for integrating not only daylight but direct sunlight into the design of interiors: There's evidence for the photophysiological...

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