Thermal auditing of buildings: essential step towards designing energy efficient houses

This project provides a reference on how to perform a complete thermal analysis and brings a concrete example using different tools and equations for the estimation of the heating or cooling loads of residential buildings. For this purpose, different methodologies and calculations done by auditing organisms that evaluates how efficient the building is and its state of insulation was used. After determining all the criteria an insulated building needs to have, we applied it in a house model and we made the financial estimation of the loads needed to create comfort conditions in the building under analysis.