On the assessment of the energy performance and environmental behaviour of social housing stock for the adjustment between simulated and measured data: The case of mild winters in the Mediterranean climate of southern Europe

This research aims to quantify the thermal comfort and energy consumption of the social housing stock during the characteristically mild winters in a Mediterranean climate, based on the monitoring of representative case studies from southern Spain. The results show that the dwellings analysed are far from conforming to adaptive comfort standard EN-15251 and yet, their limited local heating systems are rarely turned on, reducing the expected energy consumption. In addition, real use and occupancy patterns are defined for the case studies, allowing the development of energy simulation models that are better suited to the real behaviour of this social housing stock.