LoginTo successfully meet emissions targets and reduce energy demand in the built environment, high targets have been set for building fabric performance.
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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Building recommissioning in essential in the aging building stock to maintain efficient and comfortable operation as equipment ages and portions of the build-ing are re-purposed for uses other than what was orig-inally intended.
This paper consists in the presentation of a new simulation tool aimed at the detailed prediction of HVAC systems, developed by the authors in order to fulfill specific needs derived from particular research topics in the field of design and tailo
This paper reports on the use of advanced building performance simulation in the post-graduate design studio, which explored the role and limits of analytical tools in the early stage design process.
During the last years, the modeling language Modelica became increasingly used in building performance simulation. Several Modelica libraries for building components and HVAC equipment exist and many research groups use the language.
This paper presents a method using a spectral approach to simulate a hybrid ground-coupled heat pump system.
Many building energy prediction models have been developed during the past decades. While popular tools such as Energy Star target single-use buildings, few have focused on mixed-use buildings due to its complexity.
The current paper is concerned with a case study of a residential house, located in Ireland, which has been recently retrofitted from a conventional mixed fuel dwelling to a smart grid enabled all-electric dwelling.
In Egypt, the current widely used external walls are preferred in practice to minimize the project's initial cost, regardless of the negative impacts of the thermal comfort on the inhabitants, as well as the impact on the running cost of the energ
Towards the achievement of Nearly-Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB), the call for high performance Building Systems (BS) is undeniable.
The paper focuses on parameter estimation processes for physically meaningful models tuned online and de-fine a process to determine whether a model is rele-vant or not for GMBA-BEMS tuning purpose.
Building performance simulation often fails to predict accurately the real energy performance, mostly due to great uncertainties in the input data.
This paper describes the development and uses of a new software program called cMap that calculates and visualizes thermal comfort parameters throughout a space and over time.
This paper presents our research and development of system interfaces between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM), for supporting integrated architectural design and energy simulation.
The potential for utilization of the building mass thermal capacity for demand side management in the residential sector is addressed.
We present a case study of the bioclimatic design of a passively-ventilated office building in a hot and humid region. A novel adaptive, locally-orientated comfort criterion, the UTCI, was used as a key metric.