With respect to the solar school, good outdoor climate conditions during the study period in winter, plus unnecessary auxiliary heating, have led to indoor temperature increasing beyond 24 °C under real use conditions.
The strength of lumped parameter modelling methods is that they have the potential to include effects of varying outdoor climate conditions, varying heat production from animals and the building design, which allow estimation of ventilation rate and indoor air temperature and humidity, with acceptable calculation times.
A set of generic building types based on data from existing buildings were used to transfer outdoor climate conditions to indoor conditions using high resolution climate projections for Europe and the Mediterranean.
The multi-zone hygrothermal building simulation model HAMBase [6] was used to calculate the indoor temperature and RH inside the castle as a result of the outdoor climate conditions, the building properties, the climate control system and the building use.
Noticeable changes are observed in hygrothermal behaviour of the lower and the upper courses depending on the indoor and outdoor climate test conditions.
Combined heat, air, and moisture simulations were performed with IDA-ICE software together with different indoor climate control strategies and different outdoor climatic conditions (typical year, warm summer, cold winter, humid autumn).
Four typical coatings were applied on concrete specimens, and aged under outdoor natural climate conditions and indoor artificial accelerated experiments using ultraviolet light radiation and wetting/drying cycle.
This paper focusses on implementing high resolution regional climate models together with new building simulation tools in order to predict future outdoor and indoor climate conditions.
The results indicated that the indoor temperature is affected by the outdoor climate to some extent, even under conditions of space heating.
In inland areas outdoor climate will remain the same as presently but in the southern coastal areas conditions will get more severe with the increasing amount of rain and sleet almost to the end of century.
