International Building Simulation Conference 2013, Chambéry, France.
Contains 470 papers.
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This paper presents a method using a spectral approach to simulate a hybrid ground-coupled heat pump system. At each time step, the algorithm computes the…
High-order models of building performance are the preferred tool, but their complexity and time requirements can cause difficulties when attempting to…
Net-zero energy building (NZEB) is thought to be the building of choice, but in practice, is also synonym to high investment cost. It is, therefore,…
Building performance simulation often fails to predict accurately the real energy performance, mostly due to great uncertainties in the input data. Errors…
Given the dominating impact of the built environment on global carbon emissions, reducing operational energy use in buildings has long been considered a key…
This paper presents a building energy simulation study of the impact of electrical peak demand reduction strategies in a large office tower in New York that…
Towards the achievement of Nearly-Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB), the call for high performance Building Systems (BS) is undeniable. In order to provide,…
Building recommissioning in essential in the aging building stock to maintain efficient and comfortable operation as equipment ages and portions of the build…
This research proposes a Bayesian approach to include uncertainty that arises from modeling process and input values when predicting cooling and heating…
In Egypt, the current widely used external walls are preferred in practice to minimize the project's initial cost, regardless of the negative impacts of the…
The analysis of innovative designs that tightly inte-grate architectural and energy systems presents a chal-lenge for existing building performance…
Design principles in Net-ZEB consider the local en-ergy infrastructure as the virtual storage. Thus a large amount of energy exchange occurs with the grid…
The paper focuses on parameter estimation processes for physically meaningful models tuned online and de-fine a process to determine whether a model is rele-…
The Flemish EPB calculation method, in accordance with the EU EPBD, determines an insulation label and an energy performance label as an assessment method…
Air quality monitoring as well as comfort or overall energy performance require accurate information on airflow patterns, while they are particularly…
During the last years, the modeling language Modelica became increasingly used in building performance simulation. Several Modelica libraries for building…