International Building Simulation Conference 2013, Chambéry, France.
Contains 470 papers.
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Many European countries assess the heating and cooling needs of buildings using the quasi-steady state calculation method described in EN ISO 13790. The…
A building life cycle simulation tool has been developed and linked to thermal simulation, allowing energy use and other environmental impacts to be…
The majority of numerical studies of room airflow using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are conducted with the steady Reynolds-averaged Navier-…
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 140, Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs applies the IEA BESTEST building thermal…
Multidimensional effects through porous building elements is barely explored in the literature due to many difficulties such as modeling complexity,…
Windows are the only part in buildings that can directly penetrate the solar radiation into the space and thus the shading devices are needed to control the…
Model Predictive control is an advanced control tech-nique that has been used to optimize thermal comfort in buildings. Nowadays, the new buildings are char…
This paper reports on a study of the thermal performance of two-storey apartments in Adelaide, South Australia. The overall design achieved an energy rating…
Some building performance simulation programs compute the volume flow rate in ducts and pipe net-works for a given fan speed, which may be computed by a…
Building performance simulation is being increasingly deployed beyond the building design phase to support building operation. Specifically, the predictive…
A framework entitled Evolutionary Energy Performance Feedback for Design (EEPFD) was developed to mobilize the potential of multidisciplinary design…
This paper examines how calibration performs under different levels of uncertainty in model input data. It specifically assesses the efficacy of Bayesian…
We present a method for predicting visual comfort conditions of occupants in daylit spaces. Using an online survey, 67 occupants of a multi-story open plan…
Smart homes and Ambient Intelligence Environments require embedded technologies able to work and think jointly. Indeed, home technologies are expected to…
Due to the development of energy performance contracting and the needs for peak electric demand reduction, the interest for optimal building control is…
This paper proposes a modeling and analysis convention for a side- and/or toplit space called the ‘reference office’. The reference office is meant to act…
The present paper analyses a case study of the application of dynamic energy simulation on the energy efficiency improvement process of an existing…