International Building Simulation Conference 2005, Montreal, Canada.

Contains 180 papers.

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A desiccant cooling unit powered by 14.8 m2 of solar liquid collectors is implemented in a training room in Chambery in Eastern France.
Etienne Wurtz, Chadi Maalouf, Laurent Mora, Francis Allard
This paper focuses initially on the calculation of the flows of exergy corresponding to the energy demand of buildings for the following uses: heating and cooling in the air handling units, local (room level) heating and cooling, lighting, ventila
Laure Itard
Natural night ventilation is an energy efficient way to improve thermal summer comfort. Coupled thermal and ventilation simulation tools predict the performances.
Hilde Breesch and Arnold Janssens
This paper describes the results of a computational study on the feasibility of cooling houses in the Netherlands with a system consisting of a heat exchanger in the soil, a heat pump, and a low temperature heating system.
P. de Wilde, H. van Wolferen and M. Loomans
The objective of this paper is to examine different means of producing domestic hot water (DHW) in Zero net energy homes (ZNEH).
Affouda-Léon Biaou, Michel Bernier
This paper studies in three-dimension the coupled convective and radiative heat transfer rate from a window surface with adjacent aluminium venetian blind using commercially available CFD software. The flow patterns (temperature and velocity field
Ljiljana Marjanovic, Malcom Cook , Vic Hanby and Simon Rees
This paper presents an analysis of the thermal  behaviour of the new San Diego Children’s museum  and the subsequent development of a low energy  climate control system. The museum is designed as a 
G. Carrilho da Graça , P.F. Linden and M. Brook
Highly glazed buildings are often considered to be airy, light and transparent with more access to daylight than traditional buildings, but their energy efficiency is often questioned.
Harris Poirazis, Ake Blomsterberg
While most of the existing artificial neural networks (ANN) models for building energy prediction are static in nature, this paper evaluates the performance of adaptive ANN models that are capable of adapting themselves to unexpected pattern chang
Jin Yang, Hugues Rivard and Radu Zmeureanu
This paper presents the results of a case study in which Low Temperature radiators, High Temperature radiators and floor heating systems are compared using a TRNSYS16-model of a typical erraced house.
Jeroen Van der Veken, Leen Peeters, and Hugo Hens
Regression equations can be used for predicting temperature and relative humidity in single-zone buildings.
Roberto Z. Freire, Gustavo H. C. Oliveira and Nathan Mendes
CFD calculations on night cooling by natural ventilation have been carried out for two different opening geometries: 1) a set of panels and 2) a 'parallel window'. Ventilation rates for these geometries have also been measured in a research facili
F.G.H. Koene , R. Schuitema , M. Houkema
DElight is a simulation engine for daylight and electric lighting system analysis in buildings.
William L. Carroll and Robert J. Hitchcock
The EnerGuide for Houses (EGH) database is a management information tool and central depository for tracking residential energy evaluations and measuring benefits from the energy evaluations delivered across Canada.
Sylvain Blais, Anil Parekh
This paper presents a numerical model for the analysis of impact of building envelope porosity on energy.
Kai Qiu, Fariborz Haghighat
The tendency to impose stricter building regulations in order to further decrease energy consumption contradicts the tendency to build more transparent architecture and apply thinner façade construction elements.
R.M.J. Bokel, B.H.G. Peters, and M. van der Voorden
The evaluation and analysis of available simulation tools suggests a thorough research methodology for creating a new front-end interface that solves current usage problems.
Sonia Punjabi and Valerian Miranda
This paper reports on the measured performance of a residential solar water heater system over a period of 22 years and the modeling of the system to simulate its degradation over that period.
Larry O. Degelman
A brand-new methodology for considerably accurate time-series cooling load calculation in a dwelling is established, motivated by the fact that dwelling energy requirements so significantly affect the so-called urban heat island.
Jun Tanimoto, Aya Hagishima and Hiroki Sagara
This paper presents a simulation-assisted daylightresponsive illumination control system.
Ardeshir Mahdavi, Bojana Spasojević, and Klaus A. Brunner

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