Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019).

Homesol, an Perth, Ontario-based building assessment and design firm with an extensive track record isx000D
seeking to develop a large net-zero energy athletic facility in Ottawa, that will serve as the Canadian Olympicx000D
gymnastics team training centre. Homesol will have the benefit of the next several years to assess the currentx000D
building that is being used by their client so that lessons learned are applied to the new design. Notable issuesx000D
in the current building include relatively high energy use, thermal discomfort, and a strong odour. Thus, theyx000D
have commissioned the researchers to use innovative data-driven means to identify and diagnose the problems,x000D
while also making design recommendations for how to resolve them for the new building. This will be the firstx000D
net-zero energy athletic facility in Canada. Several major technical challenges include:x000D
-Athletic facilities are energy intensive because of high ventilation rate requirements.x000D
-Traditional thermal comfort models are not suitable for occupants with high metabolic rates (i.e., gymnasts),x000D
thus they cannot be used to estimate comfort.x000D
-Older buildings, such as this one, do not log high-resolution performance data.x000D
Several major innovations that will be pursued by the Carleton-based research team include: the notion ofx000D
collecting self-reported occupant comfort data and correlating it with indoor environmental conditions;x000D
performing a long-term measurement-based audit using sparse sensors; and, using findings to directly influencex000D
the new building design.