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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Large modern sports stadia are often multifunctional buildings that are not only used for sports purposes but also for other events such as concerts, conferences and festivities.
Twan van Hooff, Bert Blocken
The use of computer simulation has increased rapidly within the construction industry over the last few years and this trend is set to continue.
Catherine Simpson and Michael Whalley
Building simulation supported projects are difficult to manage when there are many different participants involved (e.g. simulation specialists, project managers, design teams with engineers and/or architects and clients).
Prazeres L, Kim J and Hand J
This paper describes an effort to build and partially validate an energy model of an existing educational building located in Cambridge, MA, USA.
Holly A. Wasilowski and Christoph F. Reinhart
In this study, a multizone model of an existing shopping mall is developed in IDA Indoor Climate and Energy (IDA ICE).
Sofia Stensson, Monica Axell, Per Fahlén, Jörgen Eriksson and Simon Roos
The purpose of this study is to develop a design support tool by combining a thermal environment simulation with a luminous environment simulation for urban outdoor and semi-outdoor living spaces.
Kazuaki Nakaohkubo and Akira Hoyano
Overheating during hot summers is a major risk which will increase under climate change.
Rachel Capon and Jake Hacker
In the beginning of 2008 the new Dutch standard NEN 5060:2008 (NEN,2008) was published (status is still ‘preliminary’). The standard contains four new weather data files for various applications.
Wim Plokker, Janneke Evers, Christiaan Struck, Aad Wijsman and Jan Hensen
This paper presents the development of a novel school outline design, which can be applied in the different climate zones of Turkiye, underpinned by building performance simulation.
Gülsu Ulukavak Harputlugil, Pieter de Wilde, Jan Hensen and Gülser Çelebi
This paper describes the modelling and analysis of a 5 MW chilled water plant used for the cooling of a recently constructed data centre in the UK.
Michaël Kummert, William Dempster, Ken McLean
Despite the software developments intended to facilitate the use of energy simulation programs by architects in the early design stage, a very limited guidance is available, leading to a limited uptake.
Suhas Bambardekar, Ute Poerschke
This paper proposes an approach to the creation of design tools that address the real information needs of designers in the early stages of design of non-residential buildings.
Michael Donn, Steve Selkowitz, Bill Bordass
Guidelines for isolation rooms in hospitals require keeping these rooms at negative pressure differential, but the guidelines do not impose a particular ventilation strategy how to achieve this.
Sean Hay Kim and Godfried Augenbroe
This paper presents the results of implementing 14 high-performance measures in a prototypical office building in a hot and humid climate using the DOE-2 simulation program.
Soolyeon Cho and Jeff S. Haberl
This paper focuses on the environmental impacts assessment module recently implemented in an energy balance tool. It describes the data and the methodology used to evaluate these impacts.
Didier Favre, Stéphane Citherlet
The advent of environmentally driven building regulations, rising energy costs, and heightened client awareness of energy-related issues has increased the demand for the assessment of building integrated low-carbon (LZC) energy supply systems.
Yaseen Waseem, Nick Kelly, Tom Scanlon, Neil Hall
In this study, we developed a numerical thermal manikin (NTM) with inner-body thermoregulation functions to investigate the local and overall thermal comfort in non-uniform thermal environments.
Gao Naiping, Niu Jianlei, Zhang Hui
The UC Berkeley Comfort Model is a helpful simula-tion tool for the assessment of thermal comfort in non-uniform environments.
Conrad Voelker, Sabine Hoffmann, Oliver Kornadt, Edward Arens, Hui Zhang and Char-lie Huizenga
This paper describes the methods developed to couple a commercial CFD program with a multi-segmented model of human thermal comfort and physiology. A CFD model is able to predict detailed temperatures and velocities of airflow around a human body,
Paul C Cropper, Tong Yang, Malcolm J Cook, Dusan Fiala and Rehan Yousaf
We address the model-adaptive coupling between computational codes for indoor thermal comfort analysis considering different levels of detail in space and time.
Christoph van Treeck, Jérôme Frisch, Martin Egger and Ernst Rank

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