International Building Simulation Conference 2009, Glasgow, Scotland.
Contains 307 papers.
Volume content
The objective of this paper is to highlight the effectiveness of light shelves in tropical office buildings to enhance interior daylighting quality.…
This article aims to discuss the results of the EnergyPlus daylighting module – Detailed. Because of the program relevance among the brazilian researchers…
The purpose of this paper is to find the efficiency of window shades regarding building energy performance and explore the possibility of developing a model…
The purpose of this study is to determine appropriate daylighting devices for office buildings in the city of New Delhi, India. It addresses to those…
An analysis is presented of the impact of glazing selection on building performance and daylight levels for a small office building designed to be built in…
In the paper we describe an integrated building lighting and thermal simulation activities carried out in the support of EU PV-Light Project. A part of the…
Blind systems have been introduced to provide visual and thermal comfort, as well as to reduce energy use in buildings. A wide variety of such systems exist…
Shading device, window to wall ratio, window height, and glazing are important factors in determining building energy consumption in the tropics. This study…
Overheating in buildings not only causes discomfort to the occupiers but – if it occurs regularly or over a sustained period – also leads to pressure for…
Recent statistics published by Natural Resources Canada estimates that the energy demand for heating and cooling accounts for about 60% of the total energy…
A large variety of simulation environments exists for building and system simulation. Collaborative work is sometimes time-consuming since, in the different…
In a recent building simulation project, the significant effort required to calculate and enter casual gains and air flow data into the ESP-r modelling…
This paper presents a simple tool (in the form of nomograms) for the preliminary design of solar gains of a window shaded with a horizontal overhang. The…
Aiming to study the temperature field changes, the House VI project was checked. This house is located in Vila37, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a dead-end small…
The dynamic building simulation software IDA Indoor Climate and Energy v. 4.0 offers a standard level with fast input for general simulation projects, an…
In winter, when the external air temperature is below zero, there is a risk of damage to coils in a closed type cooling tower due to freezing of cooling…
The presented paper reports on the application of a method for the numerical prediction of temperatures within and around structural passive cooling…
In building simulation tools differential equations are widely used to model physical phenomena of components such as walls, air and any kind of system…
This paper deals with the evaluation of different simulation approaches to kitchen ventilation modelling. Multi-zone, CFD and zonal approach are discussed…