Achieving energy savings and thermal comfort through intermittent heating in very low energy buildings

Energy efficiency and human comfort are key aspects for future owners. Climate conditions plays and important role on choosing the right policy for energy consumption in order to achieve desired interior comfort. Based on these assumptions, current paper is focused on use of various simulated scenarios and measured data in order to evaluate how intermittent heating can reduce energy consumption while mentioning user comfort at desired parameters. The passive house, which is the subject of current article, is a real house and is equipped with an in-house developed automated control solution and serves as a didactic and research platform.