International Building Simulation Conference Madison, USA, 1995.
Contains 93 papers.
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This paper gives an overview and examples of varíous approaches to system simulation in buildings. Advantages and disadvantages of the different…
Three computer programs have been developed for use in assessing solar heat gain through windows in buildings. SUNSPEC calculates the direct beam…
Thermal bridge (cold bridge) assessment is becoming more important for two reasons: firstly, as legislation and energy awareness lead to increased…
Modern, Message-Based operating systems with Graphic User Interfáces have spurred tremendous advances in software development. Usability, …
A collaborative building design environment has been proposed to integrate, together both the heterogeneous applications and the dispersed project…
The primary purpose of this paper is to discuss the needs and expectations concerning simulation analysis and evaluation tools from the viewpoint…
In this paper a new procedure of determining the thermal resistance and the thermal capacity of multilayer walls is described. Its feature is the…
The fundamentals of a probabilistic approximation in thermal buildings analysis is here briefly presented. However, the principal aim of this…
The objective of this paper is to present an overview of the latest developrnents of the CSTB R&D program Intelligent Simulation Environment (ISE…
PowerDOE, a new, PC-based building energy performance simulation tool, combines the full capabilities of DOE-2.IE with an easy-to-use, flexible…
We introduce SEMPER, a computational tool for active and multi-dornain design and evaluation support. We demonstrate SEMPER's unique synthesis of…
This paper introduces a new approach towards the assessment of thermal building performance. As a specific aspect of overall building performance…
As introduced in a paper in Building Simulation '93, the training of users; of simulation based thermal performance assessment tools is central to…
Learning how to model and simulate dynamical systems such as a building does not have to be restricted to specialists who have learned the physics…
The volume of annual, monthly, and hourly simulation output developed by building simulation packages such as DOE-2.1 presents the building…
This paper discusses a model for integrating a rigorous thermal simulation with computational reasoning. This model is used to build an…
RADIANCE has emerged as one of the most powerful programs for modelling the luminous environment within and around buildings. It has a large and…
Visualize-ITTM is a visual data analysis tool kit. RLW Analytics has developed a number of specific data visualization tools for the study of the…
Simulation of dynamic moisture transport processes in building structures under varying conditions re- the solution of the partial differential…
There are two main issues to be resolved in order that design tools can be used in cooperative mode, each communicating with the other. Firstly,…