LoginOne of the key responses of the UK Government to the European Energy Performance Building Directive EPBD2002 has been the introduction and refinement of an energy efficiency compliance tool for domestic dwellings, the Standard Assessment Procedure
Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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In this study, the feasibility of using thermal buffering enhanced with phase change material (PCM) to enable heat pump load shifting for a typical UK dwelling was investigated by comparing the performance of a buffered, load-shifted heat pump aga
This paper presents a simple all-weather sky radiance model (diffuse component).
The majority of the natural lighting, in urban slums and rural areas arround the world, is blocked off and virtually no light reaches the building spaces in lower floors as well as the streets and urban spaces.
The paper documents an ongoing study in the use of Building Performance Simulation (BPS) as a source of feedback in the early stages of architectural design.
The aim of this study is to check the accuracy of a nodal model to predict correctly the flow fields involved inside a building by wind-induced pressure.
We investigate the possibility of using geothermal hot water in heat-driven cooling systems, for air conditioning in tertiary buildings in Belgium.
This paper presents a generic model developed as a base case to represent a mid-sized Australian office building with possible best practice HVAC configurations. A number of common control methods or failures were assessed by the simulation.
This paper presents a techno-economic analysis of deep energy retrofit strategies aimed at improving a typical existing home to a Net Zero Ready (NZR) level.
In order to handle a case of pollutant dispersion in an urban environment Computational Fluid Dynam-ics (CFD) emerges as a fast and flexible method.
In this paper, two different forms of the non-linear PDE-system for heat and mass transfer in porous materials and their implementation with COMSOL Multiphysics are considered. The φ-based form presents the relative humidity as system variable and
Recently façade systems have integrated passive solutions to reduce the energy consumption in buildings and improve their occupants’ comfort.
This paper describes the use of building performance simulation into a wider implementation of an energy management system (EnMS) based on ISO 50001 requirements.
The indoor thermal comfort and energy efficiency are the main design criteria for modern home energy systems (HES).