International Building Simulation Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 1989.
Contains 53 abstracts.
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Building energy analysis programs have undergone a slow evolution since arrival over a decade ago. The frequency of use and number of applications for these…
COMBINE is a file utility program developed by Jeff Hirsch of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories for use with the DOE2.1C building energy simulation program.…
The Indoor Air Quality Simulator for personal computers (IAQPC) has been developed in response to the growing need for quick, accurate predictions of indoor…
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is developing a PC-based computer tool, the Retrofit Energy Savings Estimation Model (RESEM) which can provide high-quality…
This paper describes results from a larger project [1] which investigated the sizing of Thermal EnergyStorage (TES) systems used as part of the cooling…
Traditionally, the lighting engineering community has emphasized illuminance, the amount of light reaching a surface, as the primary design goal. The…
In a typical computer-based building energy management system (BEMS) for HVAC applications, pertinent variables such as pressure, temperature, fluid flow…
Experimental studies during the 1940S concluded that heat loss from slab-on-grade floors is proportional to floor perimeter length. More recent numerical…
Many criticisms have been made about existing software for building energy analysis and simulation. In this paper, we try to show the interest of the model-…
Some details of the optimization work conducted over the last five years in a high rise office complex are described. The solution of the many nonlinear…
The availability of daylight, including diffused sky light and direct sunlight, in urban open spaces is an important environmental factor in designing and…
Today energy saving rates due to retrofits in residential housing are either measured by experiment on site or predicted by system simulation. In the latter…
This paper describes a general purpose software, Florida Software for Engineering Calculations (FSEC 1.1), that is capable of solving various transport…
Since methods incorporating the time value of money are the only ones that give an accurate picture of life costs of a system, they are the only methods…
This paper describes the concept of developing a component program library for building energy simulation and the current state of its development, which…
A new computer program has been written for comparing the annual energy and economic performances of different window systems in non-residential buildings.…
Modellers ands users of simulation softwares need to agree on a standard way to state the physical bases of their models The proposals presented in this…
The current generation of building simulation software is based upon separate building and mechanical system simulations. While separate simulations are…
This paper describes the development of a new concept for analyzing the performance of fenestration systems. We show the derivation of five indicators that…
The heat transfer processes occurring in the earth surrounding a building have a substantial effect on the building's energy consumption. During the heating…