Varennes Library

Further information:

An article on Concordia web: "How Varennes Library achieves net-zero energy, and its lessons for future city building?" (link)

A journal publication about Varennes Library: Dermardiros, V., Athienitis, A.K. and Bucking, S. (2019). Energy performance, comfort and lessons learned from an institutional building designed for net-zero energy. ASHRAE Transactions, Vol 125, Part 1, pp. 682-695. (Click link to download)

Varennes library data package:

Click link link to download to your local storage and unzip the downloaded zip file. Indoor temperature setpoint profiles were added to this package.

Six files are enclosed:

• "Varennes library data (Jan Feb 2018)_sp.csv" and "Varennes library data (Jun-Aug 2018)_sp.csv": Data files for selected winter and summer months, in CSV (comma-separted values) format. Double click to open in Excel if you've installed Microsof Office package.

• "Plot of Varennes library data (Jan Feb 2018).html" and "Plot of Varennes library data (Jun-Aug 2018).html":  Interactive plots of the winter and summer datasets. Double click a HTML file on your local disk to open it in your browser. This plot can help you to visualize the data of selected parameters and over different date-time ranges. (The plots are generated with the Plotly Python Open Source Graphing Library.

• "Varennes library - an overview.pdf": A brief introduction of the libraray's design and energy usage.
  
  
• "Varennes Library data - parameters and plots.pdf": Descriptions of the data columns and a concise guide on interactive plots.