LoginEnergy savings in the residential area are essential in order to achieve the overall goal for energy savings outlined in the recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. This was adopted by the European Parliament in 2010.
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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A simulation study was undertaken to assess the effects of vegetated walls on the thermal performance of a building.
This paper describes the full scale tests for air flows in a test chamber subject to heat loads generated by human occupancy and equipment.
In this paper, numerical building energy simulations were carried out with weather data for Karasjok, Stuttgart and Seville, to evaluate the energy saving potential of a floor with integrated PCM panels.
This paper proposes to study the role and the user in the operation of the building and its impact on energy performance of buildings.
This study aims to conduct an Integrated Building Design process (IBD), collaborating a Building Information Modeling (BIM) application with a Building Energy Simulation tool (BES) to perform energy analysis, and improving the building energy perf
For the surface temperature of clothing, body surface temperature, and detailed temperatures and heat flow phenomena of soles contacting the floor, results of measurement experiments using human subjects were compared with results of simulations c
One trend in whole building simulation is the incorporation of hygric interaction of room and enclosure. This allows besides a more detailed comfort assessment the optimization of building components to avoid moisture related damage or failure.
To evaluate the requirements for passive school buildings, simplified calculation methods based on EN ISO 13790 are used.
The sensitivity to time resolution of boundary conditions is studied for dynamic integrated simulation of thermal and electrical networks of a net zero energy residential neighborhood.
At present, for energy conservation, conscious utilization of natural ventilation is encouraged. However, the relationship between heat discharge through natural ventilation and heat loads has not been clarified yet.
A combined simulation of the building envelope and the plant equipment is more realistic than simulating both separately and has the advantage that the modeler can use one software environment instead of multiple software environments.
Nowadays, important efforts are deployed to reduce our current residential building consumption. The most common retrofit option concerns the air tightness and the thermal insulation improvement.
A methodology is presented that entails three ways to determine the heat losses of a dwelling in the heating season, each using a different set of data.
A cost-effective model- and measurement-based methodology for ongoing commissioning | 2011 | English
The building sector is responsible for a major part of the energy consumption. A considerable reduction can be achieved by improving the operation of the buildings.
To minimize the total power consumption of a central air conditioning system, optimal control variables are necessary. A simulation of a central air conditioning system and its components are modeled.
Within this paper an annual performance and daylight comfort analysis of building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) is discussed, evaluated and compared to a common façade solution.
The performance of night ventilation to cool buildings is highly sensitive to the convective surface heat flux. As a result, simulations in BES-models may largely over- or underestimate the real cooling potential of this technique.
To predict the risk if mould growth, rot, deformations and cracks in wood, it is necessary to know the moisture levels in constructions and building components.
The aim of this study is to identify the most effective strategies to improve energy performance of an existing typical office building in the city of São Paulo/Brazil, by simulating the results of various retrofit intervent