International Building Simulation Conference 2011, Sydney, Australia.
Contains 206 papers.
Volume content
One of the big challenges in comparing measured and simulated energy performance of buildings is that most energy models do not capture the significant…
The work presented in this paper aims to compare two different climates in Australia and Reunion Island and to identify the similarities in terms of…
Guidelines for the safe design of semi-open car parks require a minimum amount of open façade in order to ensure an effective removal of heat and smoke…
Because of their low cost, small air conditioning, systems are often installed without any study on building envelope performance and without strictly…
In this paper, analysis is performed on the uncer-tainty in energy consumption calculated from whole-building energy models of two different building de-…
The aim of thise paper is to take the advantage of CFD application in calculating, optimising, and designing air curtains used to separate smoke free zones…
Standardized building performance assessment is best expressed with a so-called normative calculation method, such as the CEN/ISO calculation standards. The…
The paper aims to evaluate the thermal performance of a typical Chinese low-energy residential building in ‘Hot Summer and Cold Winter’ zone where two…
This study investigates in detail conventional and advanced shading devices. Thermal and visual aspects are considered as well as advanced control…
Assuming that isolating a building might not be the best solution to exploit the free renewable sources of its environment (outside air temperature, sky…
This work shows the optimization of natural ventilation within buildings at the stage of design and behaviour of the occupants. An evaluation is done by…
In 2005, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) in the Victorian State of Australia introduced a new design for relocatable…
This paper focuses on the study of the office room, investigating the influence of temperature sensor placement on the heating energy consumption and…
Since the last decade, it has seen a surge in the need of uncertainty analysis for building energy assessment, but it is often overlooked that the vital…
This study compares the performance of three different double skin facade configurations in prevailing summer conditions in a temperate climate. CFD…
The use of thermal insulation in the building envelope in hot and humid climate is investigated through computer simulation. A total of 1,944 parametric…
This research studies the influence of changing patterns of land use on natural ventilation using a cfd tool, with a case study in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil…
Within the scope of the HOMES programme, five pilot sites (real buildings) were chosen to study the benefits of active energy efficiency on building energy…
This paper presents a novel simulation system which couples a computational fluid dynamics program with a model of human thermal comfort and thermo-…