The introduction of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in Poland established minimal building energy performance requirements for new and retrofitted buildings without changing th

Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation (CFD) has been mainly used for building scientists as an analysis tool to assess the complex phenomenon of building physics.

Based on the authors’ previous works, this paper describes a new methodology that uses a bottom-up approach for accurately calculating the time series utility loads (e.g., energy, power, city water

The achievement of sustainable goals in the home environment demands an optimized management of electricity loads from the control side.The present work proposes a control approach based on an appr

2 Victoria Avenue is the first building in WA to achieve a 6 Star Green Star rating and a 5 Star NABERS Energy rating. Over the first 12 months of operation, it was found that the predicted pe

A kind of separate heat-pipe heat exchanger (SHP exchanger), which can move heat from indoor air to outdoor air by making use of their temperature difference, uses much less energy consumption than

Approaching a Net Zero Energy (NZE) building goal based on current definitions is flawed for two principal reasons – they only deal with energy quantities required for operations, and they do not e

The Israeli standard 5282 for energy rating of buildings includes, besides a Prescriptive path, a Performance Approach that requires using an hourly energy simulation model to demonstrate complianc