Prediction model of cooling load for community buildings with uniform material

Aiming at multitudinous influence factors on community building cooling load prediction and absence of enough data of buildings in community planning, based on the analysis of composition of building cooling load and influence factors, considers that the community characteristic building, which represents the outer cooling load, can be acquired by integrating rectangular buildings in the community with uniform orientation or 90° angle mutually and uniform envelope materials. Simulates the cooling load of two communities in Shanghai, and compares them with those of the integrated characteristic buildings. The results show that the cooling loads per unit volume of the community and its characteristic building present the same distribution. So community building cooling load prediction can be translated into that of corresponding characteristic building.