Designing a methodology for integrating industry practice into a probabilistic overheating tool for future building performance

The Low Carbon Futures project, funded by the Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate (ARCC) Programme, has the objective of using the latest UK climate projections (UKCP'09) to assess overheating in a range of domestic and non-domestic buildings. To understand how to filter the vast amount of data into a useable tool that can interact with current building practices, a range of focus groups has been commissioned to obtain practitioner feedback. The assimilation of this research into a coherent building simulation methodology, which could be used by building practitioners to assess future overheating risks of a range of buildings, and provide guidance for applying adaptation solutions to prevent defined comfort thresholds being exceeded, is described.