Overheating
High-performance design isn’t just about high levels of energy efficiency; it also equally concerns ensuring occupancy comfort both now and in the future. The introduction of energy efficiency improvement measures, such as thermal insulation, can exacerbate other risks and the most common of these is the risk of overheating.
Our expert team of consultants offer overheating risk analyses and advice to address a range of industry-standard metrics and consultancy services. Our assessment services include;
- CIBSE TM52 (non-domestic buildings)
- CIBSE TM59 (domestic buildings)
- The Building Regulations Part O (residential buildings, except hotels)
- Building Bulletin 101 (schools and education buildings)
- DfE Schools Output Specification Technical Annex 2F - 11.5 Overheating risk assessments under current and 2080 project climate change scenarios
- BREEAM Hea04 Thermal Comfort; Thermal Modelling & Design for future thermal comfort credits
- LEED Thermal Comfort (EQc5)
- WELL Thermal Comfort (c76)
- British Council for Offices (BCO) thermal performance standards
- Bespoke assessments for other applications (e.g. industrial processes)
- Pedestrian comfort analysis
- Data centre modelling
Our consultation service can also flag up potential overheating issues simply by reviewing the design proposals for a scheme, prior to design being submitted for planning approval.
IES Consulting predominantly use IES Virtual Environment software to undertake internal overheating risk analyses. However, we also offer CFD modelling to support certain types of assessment, including;
- The assessment of natural ventilation systems
- The modelling of highly granular internal air movement
- External pedestrian comfort analysis
Check out our on-demand webinar ‘Keep Your Cool with the Building Regulations - Part O’ to learn more.
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