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International Building Simulation Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 1989.

Contains 53 abstracts.

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The cost of increased ventilation air

The present American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standard 62-1981 "Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air…

Earnest S. McCutcheon, Marino Vardabasso
Evaluation procedures for building thermal simulation programs

This paper describes the techniques for validating dynamic thermal models devised by collaborating institutions in the United Kingdom. Following a review of…

David P. Bloomfield
Predictions of thermal comfort and pollutan distributions for a thermostatically-controlled, air-conditioned, partitioned room: numerical results and enhanced graphical presentation

An index of local thermal comfort and pollutant distributions have been computed with the TEMPEST computer code, in a transient simulation of an air-…

Mark White, L. Loren Eyler
The interaction of building lighting and HVAC systems

Over the past 5 years, Dubin-Bloome Associates (DBA) and Ross & Baruzzini, Inc. (R&B) have jointly been working on a project to determine the…

Robert A. Rundquist, Jay P. Conniff
How good are single zone - monthly based - correlation methods for building energy and comfort performance assessment

Several single zone, monthly based, correlation methods have been developed at a national level , ver the past few years. Although the application limits of…

Rik Van De Perre, A. Massart
Product models of buildings and their relevance to building simulation

Computers are currently used for a large variety of tasks in building design and analysis. Among the basic software types used are 2-D draughting systems, 3…

Bo-Christer Bjork
The simulation of building lighting systems

This paper describes a recently developed, multi-chromatic lighting simulation model, known by the acronym DIM (Digital Illumination Model). DIM accepts a…

J.A. Clarke
Impact of interior lighting power reductions on commercial building energy use

Lighting energy conservation measures are typically recommended in commercial bui1ding energy audits. Over 60% of the cost in Bonneville Power's commercial…

Timothy R. Steele
Promising (and not so promising) developments in energy analysis software

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…

Dwight A. Beranek, Linda K. Lawrie
The use of the combine program with DOE-2.1C

COMBINE is a file utility program developed by Jeff Hirsch of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories for use with the DOE2.1C building energy simulation program.…

Michael Hatten
Indoor air quality simulation: IAQPC

The Indoor Air Quality Simulator for personal computers (IAQPC) has been developed in response to the growing need for quick, accurate predictions of indoor…

M. K. Owen, P. A. Lawless, D. S. Ensor
RESEM: an evaluation tool for energy retrofits in institutional buildings

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is developing a PC-based computer tool, the Retrofit Energy Savings Estimation Model (RESEM) which can provide high-quality…

William L. Carroll, Bruce E. Birdsall, Robert J.Hitchcock, Ronald C. Kammerud
Thermal energy storage system sizing

This paper describes results from a larger project [1] which investigated the sizing of Thermal EnergyStorage (TES) systems used as part of the cooling…

William L. Carroll, Bruce E. Birdsall, Dominique Dumortier, Ron Kammerud, Brandt Andersson, Joe Eto, Fred Winkelmann
Luminance in computer-aided lighting design

Traditionally, the lighting engineering community has emphasized illuminance, the amount of light reaching a surface, as the primary design goal. The…

Gregory J. Ward, Francis M. Rubinstein
Rule-based diagnostic method for HVAC fault detection

In a typical computer-based building energy management system (BEMS) for HVAC applications, pertinent variables such as pressure, temperature, fluid flow…

Stanley T. Liu, George E. Kelly
Three-dimensional modelling of SLAB- on grade heat transfer

Experimental studies during the 1940S concluded that heat loss from slab-on-grade floors is proportional to floor perimeter length. More recent numerical…

Curtis O. Pedersen, William P. Bahnfleth
Model-based computer modelling: an approach for building energy simulation improvement

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-…

Anne-Marie Dubois
Simulation and optimization in the real time control of building environmental systems

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…

Z. Cumali, O. Sezgen
Daylighting in a hot arid area

The availability of daylight, including diffused sky light and direct sunlight, in urban open spaces is an important environmental factor in designing and…

Jong-Jin Kim
Verification of energy saving in residential housing

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…

Rolf Diemer
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