Control Paradigms for Non-Residential Passive House Buildings (Free for PHCA Members)

Non-residential buildings are equipped with a number of technical systems for various applications. Conventional building automation paradigms often perform less than ideal in Passive House buildings, and problems are found out late in the process: In the commissioning phase or as a response to feedback from post-occupancy monitoring. By then, it is usually too late to make fundamental changes, such as reprogramming the controller's logic. How can we deliver coherent…