In-Situ and Predicted Performance of a Certified Industrial Passive House Building under Future Climate Scenarios

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The study entitled In-situ and Predicted Performance of a Certified Industrial Passive House Building Under Future Climate Scenarios presents thermal measurements of Canada’s first industrial facility built to the Passive House International standard.

My general comments are as follows:

1. Submission is a good technical report, but it is not written as research paper, since it lacks proper literature review of similar papers previously published in scientific journals covering the subject area.
2. Would you clearly specify each of author's contribution. A Credit author statement should be added
3. Would you explicitly specify the novelty of your work? What progress against the most recent state-of-the-art similar studies was made?
4. Introduction must include motivation and background, literature review of recent scientific paper covering the topic and leading to the submission hypothesis based on the gap analysis of the previously published research (advise eg Performance of a Passive House under subtropical climatic conditions. Energy and buildings, 133, 14-31)
5. Avoid lumping references.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is clearly structured.but some doubts by reading the very low u-values. The wall assembly with its thermal characteristics  be presneted.the fault of several probes makes it difficult to assume the reliability of the ehole initial dataset.

the paper should widen its content,and possibility of “upscaling” the results: indeed,the final sentence resumes the authors’ work limitation.

 

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