Solar Performance Metrics in Urban Planning : A Review and Taxonomy
(2022) In Buildings 12(4).- Abstract
- Metrics are instrumental in design assessments. Solar performance metrics help designers to evaluate solar access in cities. Metrics should be used early in the urban planning stages in order to enable sustainable urban development with greater access to solar energy. Currently, solar assessments at this design stage are limited in practice; established methods or routines are lacking, and so are suitable metrics. This paper reviews the relevant literature to provide a critical overview of solar metrics commonly used in building performance assessments. The review defines key metric formulation principles—valuation, time constraint, and normalisation—which should be considered when designing a performance indicator. A new taxonomy of solar... (More)
- Metrics are instrumental in design assessments. Solar performance metrics help designers to evaluate solar access in cities. Metrics should be used early in the urban planning stages in order to enable sustainable urban development with greater access to solar energy. Currently, solar assessments at this design stage are limited in practice; established methods or routines are lacking, and so are suitable metrics. This paper reviews the relevant literature to provide a critical overview of solar metrics commonly used in building performance assessments. The review defines key metric formulation principles—valuation, time constraint, and normalisation—which should be considered when designing a performance indicator. A new taxonomy of solar performance metrics is provided. Metric definitions, suitability, and limitations are discussed. The findings highlight
the need for reliable, low-complexity metrics and adequate methods for early solar assessments for urban planning. (Less)
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- Czachura, Agnieszka LU ; Kanters, Jouri LU ; Gentile, Niko LU and Wall, Maria LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-04
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- solar access, daylight access, passive solar, active solar, urban planning, taxonomy
- in
- Buildings
- volume
- 12
- issue
- 4
- article number
- 393
- pages
- 22 pages
- publisher
- MDPI AG
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- scopus:85127769918
- ISSN
- 2075-5309
- DOI
- 10.3390/buildings12040393
- project
- IEA SHC Task 63 Solar Neighborhood Planning
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- English
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- yes
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- 393aafd0-d787-4f07-a913-60483785e7ad
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