International Building Simulation Conference 2013, Chambéry, France.
Contains 470 papers.
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Starting from an entry in the recent German Energy Plus Renovation competition (EPA --- EnergyPlus im Altbau 2012), the paper presents the design tools used…
Thermal bridging is a problem that arises from using a thermosyphon. It is used as a passive part of the building envelope in south facing walls. A solution…
This paper presents a simple all-weather sky radiance model (diffuse component). The model development was motivated by the intention to find a balance…
In the Swiss research project OptiControl (www.opticontrol.ethz.ch), new predictive building control strategies…
Recently façade systems have integrated passive solutions to reduce the energy consumption in buildings and improve their occupants’ comfort. This paper…
Traditional uncertainty quantification (UQ) in the design of energy efficient buildings is limited to the propagation of parameter uncertainties in model…
In the context of district energy systems, changes in a building’s heat demand also affect the energy efficiency of the whole district heating network. We…
The use of LEED as a building sustainability rating method is well established in the US. In this paper we concentrate on the calculation of the score in…
We investigate the possibility of using geothermal hot water in heat-driven cooling systems, for air conditioning in tertiary buildings in Belgium. Models…