Assessing the Reliability of Turkish Building Energy Performance Tool (bep-Tr2) by Case Tests

Abstract

This paper aims to draw a general picture of the simplified software for calculation building energy performance based on Turkish Regulations called BEP-tr.v2, which was released at the end of 2017. Even the tool has a simplified calculation methodology, the discussion in this paper is going to be focused on assessing the accuracy of the tool by test cases. The assessing procedure for the tool has two steps. In the first step, box type cases are analyzed, and the results are compared with the results of a detailed energy simulation tool (BES) to perceive the percentage of deviations. In the second step, a current building is selected to use as a test case. The model results are compared with the real consumptions of the building to see the convergence rate of the tool (Bep-TR2). The results showed that the net energy calculation procedure of the methodology needs to be improved. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0