TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of energy efficiency of U.S. Army hard shelters
AU - Shrestha, Som
AU - Pagan-Vazquez, Axy
AU - Kreiger, Megan
AU - Chu, Dahtzen
AU - Biswas, Kaushik
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 U.S. Government.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Army uses a variety of soft shelters and semipermanent structures at Contingency Operating Bases as barracks, dining halls, administrative offices, and maintenance shops. These structures, which are commonly built by hand by soldiers or local nationals, often show performance problems. The use of an improved barracks hut (B-hut) can offer significant benefits such as enhancing the performance of building envelopes, reducing energy use, and improving comfort. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of these technologies must first be proven in experimental building stock to enable integration of this technology into Department of Defense (DoD) contingency bases. This paper presents field data that demonstrates performance of an improved B-hut compared to a co-located typical Army B-hut. Detailed EnergyPlus models of the huts were developed and simulation results were compared against the field measured data. Validated EnergyPlus models were used to simulate the performance of huts at Champaign, IL and Kabul, Afghanistan climate conditions. Results show that the improved B-hut requires only one-fifth of the shelter conditioning energy compared to that for the baseline B-hut.
AB - The Army uses a variety of soft shelters and semipermanent structures at Contingency Operating Bases as barracks, dining halls, administrative offices, and maintenance shops. These structures, which are commonly built by hand by soldiers or local nationals, often show performance problems. The use of an improved barracks hut (B-hut) can offer significant benefits such as enhancing the performance of building envelopes, reducing energy use, and improving comfort. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of these technologies must first be proven in experimental building stock to enable integration of this technology into Department of Defense (DoD) contingency bases. This paper presents field data that demonstrates performance of an improved B-hut compared to a co-located typical Army B-hut. Detailed EnergyPlus models of the huts were developed and simulation results were compared against the field measured data. Validated EnergyPlus models were used to simulate the performance of huts at Champaign, IL and Kabul, Afghanistan climate conditions. Results show that the improved B-hut requires only one-fifth of the shelter conditioning energy compared to that for the baseline B-hut.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85053705463
SN - 9781939200501
T3 - Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings
SP - 661
EP - 667
BT - Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings - XIII International Conference
PB - American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
T2 - 13th International Conference on Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings 2016
Y2 - 4 December 2016 through 8 December 2016
ER -
