RELIABILITY OF DYNAMIC SIMULATION MODELS FOR BUILDING ENERGY IN THE CONTEXT OF LOW-ENERGY BUILDINGS

Within the framework of building energy simulation, empirical validation has been used for many decades. This paper presents a first step in the empirical validation of simulation tools in the context of low energy buildings. We were interested in comparing results provided by two pieces of software for dynamic energy simulation Dymola and Pleiades+Comfie - to measurements from the experimental platform BESTLab built on the EDF site of the Renardieres (France). Then a methodology was developed in order to identify the most influential parameters on simulations and to determine their influence on model predictions using sensitivity and uncertainty analyses.