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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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This study investigates in detail conventional and advanced shading devices. Thermal and visual aspects are considered as well as advanced control strategies.
The paper aims to evaluate the thermal performance of a typical Chinese low-energy residential building in ‘Hot Summer and Cold Winter’ zone where two prototypes within a six-storey healthy housing with low-energy standards have been investigated.
Standardized building performance assessment is best expressed with a so-called normative calculation method, such as the CEN/ISO calculation standards.
The aim of thise paper is to take the advantage of CFD application in calculating, optimising, and designing air curtains used to separate smoke free zones in case of fire.
In this paper, analysis is performed on the uncer-tainty in energy consumption calculated from whole-building energy models of two different building de-signs; a typical code compliant building, and the same building redesigned with high performan
Because of their low cost, small air conditioning, systems are often installed without any study on building envelope performance and without strictly complying with the rules of art.
Guidelines for the safe design of semi-open car parks require a minimum amount of open façade in order to ensure an effective removal of heat and smoke during a car fire.
The work presented in this paper aims to compare two different climates in Australia and Reunion Island and to identify the similarities in terms of bioclimatic design of low energy building.
One of the big challenges in comparing measured and simulated energy performance of buildings is that most energy models do not capture the significant impact of installation, operational and degradation HVAC system faults on actual energy perform
Designers oversize HVAC systems for various reasons, and some reasons are more justifiable than others.
This paper introduces a newly developed multi-criteria decision making tool called RR-PARETO and its application to HVAC design.
This paper discusses the potential of a Solar Assisted Ground-Source Heat Pump (SAGSHP) system configuration with unglazed solar collectors to supply space heating in French office buildings, with reduced capital cost.
This study investigates the impact of air tightness assumptions on the accuracy of energy performance predictions generated by building simulation of Australian office buildings.
The accurate representation of building operation is essential for building simulation to represent the consequence of design and operational controls correctly.
Given the challenges to design Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs), the use of Building Performance Simulation (BPS) tools during early design phases has been indispensable. In this context, we compare ten early design BPS tools.
Excess energy consumption of HVAC system is not usually noticed without the dissatisfaction to thermal environment. Recently it has become easier to discover it in buildings with the aid of Building Energy Management System (BEMS).
This paper describes a systematic methodology for the development of calibrated thermodynamic Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models for controlled environments in buildings utilising wireless sensor networks.
This paper adopts an Eulerian-Lagrangian approach to investigate the dispersion behaviors of human exhaled droplets under the displacement ventilation in a typical office room.
This paper describes the development of a modelling approach which combines the energy use in industrial production, with the energy flows relating to the building.