International Building Simulation Conference 2005, Montreal, Canada.

Contains 180 papers.

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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation technique was used to study the effect of air distribution and supply parameters on ventilation performance and comfort of occupants in a government office building in Ottawa, Canada.
Liang Zhou, Hongyu Huang, Amid Shakeri, Soheil Rastan, Ben Stach, Karen Pero, Edward Morofsky, Fariborz Haghighat
Personalized ventilation (PV) has the ability to improve inhaled air quality and accommodate the individual thermal preference.
Naiping Gao, Jianlei Niu
This paper describes a case study to estimate the time and effort needed by novice designers to computationally evaluate the performance of building designs.
Ardeshir Mahdavi
We present a model for calculating the sky radiation values considering the sky radiance distribution for a simulated building.
Hayato Hosobuchi , Harunori Yoshida ,Yoshiaki Uetani
This paper presents the performance of a computer simulation code for modelling the evaporative cooling of buidings by water spray vaporization, bring together the scales of the droplet, spray and building.
Antonio César S. Baptista da Silva, José A. Bellini da Cunha Neto, Roberto Lamberts
Application of EESLISM for the energy and environmental control system design in the example building is described.
Mitsuhiro Udagawa , Hyunwoo Roh
The paper deals with two construction details and discusses the opportunities and limits of their computer aided building simulation. Both details occur in the area of building renovation and modernization.
Günter Konieczny, Roman Rabenseifer
Improving thermal performance of building envelopes reduces energy consumption of residential buildings.
Hua Sheng He , Amin Hammad and Paul Fazio
In the world-wide scale outbreak of SARS in 2003, cluster of cases occurred in large building blocks, especially in Hong Kong.
J. Niu, C. Tung, J. Wan, and J. Cheng
The objective of this paper is to examine different means of producing domestic hot water (DHW) in Zero net energy homes (ZNEH).
Affouda-Léon Biaou, Michel Bernier
Natural night ventilation is an energy efficient way to improve thermal summer comfort. Coupled thermal and ventilation simulation tools predict the performances.
Hilde Breesch and Arnold Janssens
This paper describes the results of a computational study on the feasibility of cooling houses in the Netherlands with a system consisting of a heat exchanger in the soil, a heat pump, and a low temperature heating system.
P. de Wilde, H. van Wolferen and M. Loomans
This paper presents an analysis of the thermal  behaviour of the new San Diego Children’s museum  and the subsequent development of a low energy  climate control system. The museum is designed as a 
G. Carrilho da Graça , P.F. Linden and M. Brook
Highly glazed buildings are often considered to be airy, light and transparent with more access to daylight than traditional buildings, but their energy efficiency is often questioned.
Harris Poirazis, Ake Blomsterberg
This paper studies in three-dimension the coupled convective and radiative heat transfer rate from a window surface with adjacent aluminium venetian blind using commercially available CFD software. The flow patterns (temperature and velocity field
Ljiljana Marjanovic, Malcom Cook , Vic Hanby and Simon Rees
Regression equations can be used for predicting temperature and relative humidity in single-zone buildings.
Roberto Z. Freire, Gustavo H. C. Oliveira and Nathan Mendes
While most of the existing artificial neural networks (ANN) models for building energy prediction are static in nature, this paper evaluates the performance of adaptive ANN models that are capable of adapting themselves to unexpected pattern chang
Jin Yang, Hugues Rivard and Radu Zmeureanu
This paper presents the results of a case study in which Low Temperature radiators, High Temperature radiators and floor heating systems are compared using a TRNSYS16-model of a typical erraced house.
Jeroen Van der Veken, Leen Peeters, and Hugo Hens
DElight is a simulation engine for daylight and electric lighting system analysis in buildings.
William L. Carroll and Robert J. Hitchcock
The EnerGuide for Houses (EGH) database is a management information tool and central depository for tracking residential energy evaluations and measuring benefits from the energy evaluations delivered across Canada.
Sylvain Blais, Anil Parekh

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