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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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According to the Passivhaus Institute (PHI) the verification of a Passivhaus design must be carried out using the Passivhaus Planning Package (PHPP).
This paper presents an analysis of whole-building performance modelling and simulation process of a low-energy single-family detached residence located in Northeast U.S.
The faulty operation of Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in commercial buildings can waste vast amounts of energy, cause unnecessary CO2 emissions and decrease occupant thermal comfort, reducing productivity.
In this paper, a methodology for interfacing and as-sessing a Model Predictive Control strategy in a build-ing simulation tool (SIMBAD) is presented.
There has been an increasing demand for sports facilities in urban areas recently.
In this paper, we developed a new method to forecast 10-minutes ahead wind speed based on Heteroscdastic Gaus-sian Process and investigated the impacts of this predict-ing on a mix-mode operated building.
A calculation model for air-to-water heat pump for space heating in residential house was developed.
The Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) currently under development at the University of Wollongong will be an exemplar in respect of demonstration of a range of technical and operational means of reducing greenhouse emissions and other e
New façades of high-rise buildings often include renewable energy converters to allow “green building” operation. At the same time, numerous tenants value visual transparency.
In this paper, the application potential of ground-coupled heat pumps (GCHP) in a multi-storey office building in Hong Kong was investigated.
This paper investigates the inclusion of passive airflow components such as solar chimney, and wind induced earth air tunnel into a coupled multi-zone ventilation and thermal model.
Advanced control systems are widely applied in modern buildings so as to meet the requirements of energy conservation and higher level of indoor environmental quality.
This paper reports on research that uses building performance simulation and uncertainty analysis to assess the risks that projected climate change poses to the thermal performance of buildings, and to their critical functions. The work takes mete
This paper presents the evaluation of energy and exergy performance of several design alternatives of residential heating systems for a house.
This paper describes the basic features of a new advanced human thermal model (HTM), which is integrated with a building simulation tool.
This study proposed the Tikhonov regularization strategy coupled with the least-squares optimization to identify unsteady gas release processes from a fixed spot.
Building energy systems often consume 20% more energy than is necessary due to system deviation from the design intent.
This paper proposes an approach to identify the coefficients of the chiller model used by the EnergyPlus program. Data collected every 15 minutes from an existing cooling plant are used to evaluate the approach.
In this research, a new energy-saving design method and a design-aided program MEESG (Most-Energy-Efficient-Scheme-Generator) are developed.