International Building Simulation Conference 2007, Beijing, China.
Contains 288 papers.
Volume content
Fires in buildings account for 60% of fires in Taiwan. Since establishment of the National Fire Agency in 1995, many fire codes have been…
This paper presents a set of solutions to enable differential time scales for dynamic boundary conditions within whole-building energy simulation…
The following paper is focused on hygrothermal behaviour of roofs with ventilated air layers subjected to air leakages in their internal decks (…
The use of a thermal probe allows a range of in-situ conditions to be taken into account that impact upon the properties of building materials (λ…
The simulation of building efficiency and cost is a crucial driver to contemporary building design today. This paper presents the development of a…
Dynamic facility state models could effectively support simulation-based building systems control. In a simulation-based control strategy, the…
In this paper several kinds of window shading are introduced and compared. In addition, the potential of energy efficiency of exterior shading and…
Failures can lead to a series of problems in the complex heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings. Fault detection…
It is difficult to model those complicated objects around buildings, which will obviously affect the flow patterns and temperatures of the outdoor…
In some emergencies, such as fire or accidental release of chemical/biological agents in buildings, it is very useful to simulate the flow on real…
In order to make sustainable single houses, it is very important to control the outdoor thermal environment. Therefore, various relaxation methods for the…
Air age is an important parameter to assess indoor air quality in ventilated rooms. In order to consider the contribution of ductwork and…
With the rapid development of computers and CFD, pedestrian level wind study using CFD has become important in engineering design in recent …
Scientific studies have linked particulate matter with a series of significant health problems. In ventilation systems, indoor particle…
A new concept, the spatial flow influence factor (SFIF), put forward by us in our previous paper, provides a new insight into the airflow…
Here a generalized 3-D radiation simulation system is developed with Monte-Carlo and Gebhart method. There are two kinds of basic units in…
The three-dimensional wind environment in Lanqiying community of Beijing city, which is complicated due to the dense distribution of the highrise…
Energy savings by integrating the daylighting availability in the electric lighting management contributes to the realization of ‘Green Building…
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a promising method to study the urban built environment. However, the pecularities of the urban wind …
This paper highlights the difficulty of using energy simulations to answer general questions in typical building design scenarios. By analyzing…