Case Study: Martin Gough achieves highly calibrated energy-independent building modeling with Integrated Environmental Solutions (IESVE)

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Martin Gough’s student award case study features Rehnuma Parveen from the University of Adelaide, who explored how to improve the energy efficiency of apartment buildings in a fast-growing megacity. Working with Integrated Environmental Solutions, she used IES Virtual Environment (IESVE) to investigate whether a residential building could be modeled accurately enough to assess its potential for energy independence.

Integrated Environmental Solutions’ IESVE was used to calibrate the apartment model against real-world measurements, demonstrating the value of building performance simulation for reliable results. The calibrated model achieved strong accuracy, with CV(RMSE) values of 1.37% for hourly indoor air temperature and 7.42% for monthly electricity consumption, well below the 20% threshold typically considered acceptable, showing that IESVE can support highly reliable energy-independence studies.

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