International Building Simulation Conference 2011, Sydney, Australia.
Contains 206 papers.
Volume content
Energy and indoor environmental performance of buildings are highly influenced by outdoor/indoor climate, by building characteristics, and by occupants’…
In order to decrease the concentration of indoor pollutants, sorptive building materials have been used. Giving the construction materials themselves the…
It is important to insulate the glazing or frames of windows efficiently because they usually contribute to some of the greatest heat loss from dwelling…
We designed a new air supply window system to ventilate indoors through the air space of a double pane window and evaluated its insulation efficiency and…
The objective of the work is to identify the types of occupant-driven residential behaviour variations that most significantly impact a designer’s ability…
Evaporative cooling is an attractive energy-efficient technique for producing a comfortable indoor environment. The efficiency and low cost of water spray…
In future highly energy-efficient buildings, heat pumps will play a key role. Hence, annual efficiency calculation and optimization by means of simulating…
The aim of the work is to present a new methodology that allows to identify the most important parameters affecting the energy performance of buildings…
Many simulation software to predict thermal environment of buildings, such as temperature, humidity, heating and cooling load of building spaces, have been…
In this paper we present a method to simulate res-idential building occupants’ activities, which can be directly used to predict occupants’ presence and as…
When coupling computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with a detailed thermal comfort model describing the human thermoregulation, the characteristics of the…
A multiobjective optimisation methodology is proposed to optimise building design against both physical performance (such as energy efficiency) and…
To achieve the low-carbon society, Japanese government has conducted; 1) to revise “Laws Concerning the Rational Use of Energy”, 2) to manifest reducing 25…
District heating and cooling (DHC) systems show a great potential for energy saving. However, a number of problems related to heating, ventilation, and air…
Carbon dioxide concentration is often taken as an indicator of indoor air quality, especially in spaces where human beings are the main contaminant source.…
In the context of more and more efficient building research, as passive house or Energy plus building, the occupants have become a central actor of…
Automatic optimization and degradation detection tool for HVAC primary system was developed. It synchronizes with Building Energy Management System (BEMS),…
The diversity of non-domestic buildings at urban scale poses a number of difficulties to develop building stock models. This research proposes an…
This study reported a series of wind tunnel experiments on the spatial distribution of the pressure drag acting on the walls of rectangular block arrays,…