The implementation of the regulations on solar collectors in buildings

• Autor(es): Abreu, Isabel ; Oliveira, Rui
• Data: 2008
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/5309
• Origem: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Assunto(s): Solar collector; Solar DWH; Building thermal regulations; Portugal
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

The use of solar energy constitutes a great concern of national and international bodies, as a result of a strategic policy towards green energy consumption. The Portuguese regulations on building thermal behaviour and energy efficiency, recently enacted by the Portuguese Government, in line with the European Union Directive 2002/91/CE, have introduced the obligatory use of solar collector technology for hot water production applied to new building projects and to some important retrofit works. To cope with the prescriptions of these regulations, the solar technology market is been growing and the Portuguese project designers and construction professionals are founding new challenges. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse the major problems and initial impacts of the obligatory implementation of solar collector technology in buildings and provide contributions to improve solar energy use in the future. The results show that, as almost all new technology implementation, some obstacles have always to be faced initially.