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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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Buildings represent the major energy consuming sector in India. Sustainable and climate responsive architecture offers possible solutions to this high energy demand.
The ‘Wind-Rain’ House, was designed by the New Zealand architect, Nigel Cook. First built in New Zealand in 1985 its design concept for indoor thermal comfort is quite different from local conventional houses.
This study copes with the problem of ventilation in existing educational environments in terms of indoor air quality (AIQ), comfort and energy consumption.
Although it has been used for many years in commercial buildings, the application of demand controlled ventilation in residences is limited.
A model tunnel (approximately ten hydraulic diameters) with different designs of the tunnel mouth has been placed in a wind tunnel and has been subjected to the effects of external wind by varying the wind direction at the mouth of the tunnel.
This study employed large-eddy simulation (LES) to investigate wind-driven single-sided natural ventilation for an idealized building model located in an urban environment.
This paper describes a re-analysis of internal pressure and building ventilation in a single-opening enclosure ventilated by winds. The dynamics of internal pressure is governed by a nonlinear oscillation equation.
BIM can examine the placement of ductwork and machinery. It significantly increases the efficiency of a mechanical design. In addition, BIM functions as a database to simplify the use of simulation technology.
The canopy wall in the greenhouse is modelled as windows in the builidng simulation software, so as to avoid using the concept of overall heat transfer coefficient between inside greenhouse air and outside atmosphere air in the traditional greenho
Buildings do not perform as modelled. There are many reasons for this, for example change of scope, functions, assumptions, weather, user behaviour and so forth. This paper investigates the latter.
A set of in-depth diagnostic test cases for multi-zone heat transfer was developed.
Standard office building control systems operate the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning on a fixed schedule, based upon anticipated occupancy and use of the building.
The indoor moisture production is of great interest when simulating the indoor air humidity. Surface materials in an apartment will buffer some of the moisture produced depending on the features of the materials.
This paper presents a Simulation Domain Model (SimModel) - a new interoperable XML-based data model for the building simulation domain.
Because of the complexity and diversification of today’s HVAC systems, Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) systems have become necessary to reduce maintenance cost and to provide building energy efficiency, but with a minimum of engineering cost.
To maintain good indoor air quality, this investigation proposes a prototype of an active breathing wall system, which is composed of a solar radiation absorption board, air heating cavity, porous filtration unit and fan device.
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation is the main research method for assessing the wind environment around building complexes.
This paper shows a new DSF modeling approach so-called a co-simulation of the heterogeneous systems.
The aim of this work is to model the energy consumption and the on-site production of an existing building, the Leaf House (LH), that was designed in order to be a Net Zero CO2 emission home.