International Building Simulation Conference 2003, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Contains 190 papers.
Volume content
The set points of supervisory control strategy are optimized with respect to energy use and thermal comfort…
In building simulation, as in several other domains, traditional monolithic simulation codes are still in dominance over simulators based on symbolic…
The design for the new Federal Building for San Francisco includes an office tower that is to be naturally…
This paper presents a study of windbreak sheltering effect on the outdoor open space using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques and the wind…
The "PV/T-Slate" is a recently developed ventilated photovoltaic slate for integration into roofs or facades. As side effect of the cell cooling the…
Building simulation programs normally do not take into account moisture effects in soils temperature determination. However, the presence of …
In the standard design process of a building, total building simulation using building simulation software is encouraged to be incorporated into the…
The first energy efficiency law for Brazil was presented in 2001, which required that buildings should…
The introduction of simulation into medium-scale building services and engineering firms can provide design teams with…
While a lot of attention has been given in the study of indoor air distribution and its thermal performance, buildings clustered together in a …
Even though simulation is being increasingly used in design of modern buildings, the full potential of simulation is usually not achieved. To improve…
The Transfer Function Method (TFM) is a tool able to solve heat transfer problems in building envelopes and environments and it is recommended by the…
To provide additional validation data for the multizone airflow and contaminant model, CONTAMW, experiments…
Considering the natural ventilation, the thermal behavior of buildings can be described by a linear time varying…
Traditionally, the simulation of buildings has focused on operational energy consumption in an attempt to determine the potential for energy…
From the view point of designing the energy efficient air conditioning system with maximized ventilation, the possibility of an all fresh air system…
For the multi-room ventilation calculations, bi- directional flows or counter flows in openings have been rarely taken into consideration and only uni-…
This paper demonstrates an image-based lighting analysis procedure and tool called Virtual Lighting Laboratory. Virtual…
In an existing integrated building design tool, BSim2002, a 3D building model can be created. The model can be used…
Modelling of buildings with natural or hybrid ventilation systems requires the coupling of a thermal and an…