Low Exergy Renovation: Optimizing retrofitting of buildings through exergy analysis on single houses and up-scaled design solutions

Improvement on effectiveness provided by an exergy analysis used in a renovation design. An exergy analysis of the Pret-a-Loger house (TU Delft, Green Village) is done with dynamic calculations using TRNSYS software. From this analysis an exergy optimized version of the renovation concept is provided, with insight on the potential effectiveness improvement possible to the concept. Furthermore, a single house renovation solution and an up-scaled solution with multiple dwellings together are defined as a final result.