LoginComputational performance-based building design support faces a conflict. It is important to provide building performance feed back to the designer as early as possible in the design process.
IBPSA 2001 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
International Building Simulation Conference 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Contains 153 papers
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Complex building performance analysis in early stages of design: a solution based on differential modeling, homology-based mapping, and generative design agents | 2001 | English
Development of a test reference year on limited data base for simulations on passive heating and cooling in Chile | 2001 | English
The application of building simulation for the thermal improvement of buildings in developing countries is limited by the scarcity of hourly climate data and test reference years.
This paper gives an overview about the use of building simulation in Switzerland. It focuses 4 different areas:
Due to in adequate architectural standards and bad building design, one can frequently find school buildings with very bad performance regarding energy efficiency.
There is a need for Dutch design support tools for building services that can be used in early design stages. TNO Building and Construction Research has therefore initiated the research project described here.
The paper describes the main features of the new simulation environment ColSim [15] and a special application for investigating ventilation strategies in buildings.
Development and quality improvement of HVAC control systems in virtual laboratories | 2001 | English
The control industry integrates more and more recent innovations, especially on the sector of communication networks (bus), control (fuzzy logic, neural networks…) and informatic (hard-and software) for the development of Building Management
BSPRO COM-SERVER: interoperability between software tools using industry foundation classes | 2001 | English
The continuing development of the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) creates new possibilities for achieving interoperability for design software through the use of a common object m
Daylight illuminance is one of the most important element which comprises the luminous environment by daylight both in interior and at outdoor of building. Daylight is taken into interior mainly through the window.
The software DOMUS has been developed to model coupled heat and moisture transfer in multi-zone buildings.
Computer simulation Of measurement methods can give in-depth information on the possible effect of a wide variety of parameters on measurement results.
In addition to the fact that the serviceability of building constructions used as exhibition halls has to be ensured, the climate stability of the whole structure has to be increased.
Determining baseling energy consumption and peak cooling loads of a 107-year-old science museum using DOE 2.1E | 2001 | English
The Energy Resources Center (ERC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago conducted an energy assessment to determine the peak cooling loads of the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) as part of MSI’s Long Term Development Plan.
This paper will describe a simulation experiment designed to benchmark the use of separate electric driven chiller plants for a nominal 100,000 sq.
Technological advances in real-time data collection,data transfer and ever-increasing computational power are bringing simulation assisted control and on-line fault detection and diagnosis closer to reality than was imagined when Building Energy M
During the past few years, our research team has developed techniques to solve problems associated with designing a collaborative evaluation performance tool environment.
A new building energy simulation program developed under support from the US government was released in April 2001.
This paper addresses the utility and the difficulties to predict the actual energy consumption of existing buildings, that can be useful to calculate true energy conservation potential taking into account the real usage of the building.
Over the last fifteen years, there have been a number of UK initiatives which facilitated practitioner access to simulation programs (e.g. Clarke and Maver 1991; McElroy et al 1997).