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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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The integration of techniques for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in building performance simulation (BPS) has a number of potential benefits related to design.
This paper describes a new methodology in calculating accurately the time series utility loads (energy, power, city water, hot water, etc.) in a dwelling.
Based on six years of continuous measurements, we have analysed in detail the occupancy, thermal and visual parameters influencing blind usage behaviour. This paper begins by presenting some of the key findings from these analyses.
This paper presents the results of a recent study of people's presence and their interactions with the buildings' environmental systems in a number of buildings in Austria.
Based on almost seven years of continuous measurements we have analysed in detail the influence of occupancy patterns, indoor temperature and outdoor climate parameters (temperature, wind speed and direction, relative humidity and rainfall) on win
As part of the UK government Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) initiative, the requirement of Asset and Operational Ratings for buildings since 2008 meant that software packages have recently been made available commercially to carr
To address the functional complexities and volumetric variability found in the UK non-domestic building stock (Pérez-Lombard et al, 2008, Bruhns, 2008), the methodology for demonstrating compliance with energy performance criteria outlined in Appr
The general practice for establishing the consumption in asset ratings of a building consists of entrusting the energy analysis of the shell of a building to calculating software. The building is the subject of an extremely complicated analysis, a
The goal of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of the Portuguese thermal regulation simplified methodology for existing buildings and to assess the influence of different parameters on the building final energy performance evaluation. Simple “
The user’s action is a decisive factor in the energy performance of a building. In this paper is demonstrated the necessity of using more specific user’s profiles (UPs) in simulations of building’s energy performance (EP).
The transfer of energy from the ground to buildings through slabs and basements has long been a point of large errors in simulations. Work to increase the accuracy of this ground-coupled heat transfer was started under IEA Task 34/43.
Seasonal storage of solar energy in geothermal boreholes has resurfaced as a means of heating housing communities.
Common approaches to the simulation of Borehole Heat Exchangers (BHEs) assume heat transfer in circulating fluid and grout to be in a quasi-steady state and ignore fluctuations in fluid temperature due to transport of the fluid around the loop.
This paper shows the numerical model of an earth-toair heat exchanger. The system is discretized into “n” sections perpendicular to the exchanger pipe.
This paper presents simulations of the integral coefficients of performance of a heat pump system coupled with a vertical ground heat exchanger (GHE).
The aim of this study is to accelerate developments of building simulation programs by using Object- Oriented programming.
Over the past 30 years numerous Building Simulation Codes (BSC) have been developed. Nevertheless, none of them has yet become a “standard”.
The simulation of the energy performance of buildings has historically been compartmentalized along the lines separating different disciplines or different analysis tools, despite their interrelations.
This paper describes an open-source library with component models for building energy and control systems that is based onModelica, an equation-based object-oriented language that is well positioned to become the standard for modeling of dynamic s