International Building Simulation Conference 2013, Chambéry, France. 

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Many European countries assess the heating and cooling needs of buildings using the quasi-steady state calculation method described in EN ISO 13790.
Jérôme Le Dréau, Per Heiselberg, Rasmus L. Jensen, Ayser D. Selman
A building life cycle simulation tool has been developed and linked to thermal simulation, allowing energy use and other environmental impacts to be evaluated.
Charlotte Roux, Bruno Peuportier
The majority of numerical studies of room airflow using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)  are conducted with the steady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach.
Twan van Hooff, Bert Blocken, Pierre Gousseau, GertJan van Heijst
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 140, Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs applies the IEA BESTEST building thermal fabric test cases and example simulation results originally published in 1995.
R. Judkoff, J. Neymark
Multidimensional effects through porous building elements is barely explored in the literature due to many difficulties such as modeling complexity, computer run time, numerical convergence and highly moisture-dependent properties.
Gerson H. dos Santos, Nathan Mendes
Windows are the only part in buildings that can directly penetrate the solar radiation into the space and thus the shading devices are needed to control the solar penetration.
Myung Hwan Oh, Kwang Ho Lee, Jong Ho Yoon
Model Predictive control is an advanced control tech-nique that has been used to optimize thermal comfort in buildings. Nowadays, the new buildings are char-acterized by an important inertia as well as low power heating systems.
Julien Eynard, Romain Bourdais, Herve Gueguen, Didier Dumur
This paper reports on a study of the thermal performance of two-storey apartments in Adelaide, South Australia.
Veronica Soebarto and Helen Bennetts
Some building performance simulation programs compute the volume flow rate in ducts and pipe net-works for a given fan speed, which may be computed by a feedback controller, based on the intersection of the flow resistance and fan curve.
Michael Wetter
Building performance simulation is being increasingly deployed beyond the building design phase to support building operation.
Mahnameh Taheri, Farhang Tahmasebi, Ardeshir Mahdavi
A framework entitled Evolutionary Energy Performance Feedback for Design (EEPFD) was developed to mobilize the potential of multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) towards solving current obstacles between design and energy performance feedbac
Shih-Hsin Eve Lin, David Jason Gerber
This paper examines how calibration performs under different levels of uncertainty in model input data. It specifically assesses the efficacy of Bayesian calibration to enhance the reliability of EnergyPlus models.
Yeonsook Heo, Diane Graziano, Leah Guzowski, Ralph T. Muehleisen
We present a method for predicting visual comfort conditions of occupants in daylit spaces.
J. Alstan Jakubiec, Christoph F. Reinhart
Smart homes and Ambient Intelligence Environments require embedded technologies able to work and think jointly.
Felix Iglesias, Wolfgang Kastner
Due to the development of energy performance contracting and the needs for peak electric demand reduction, the interest for optimal building control is renewed.
Thomas Berthou, Pascal Stabat, Raphael Salvazet, Dominique Marchio
This paper proposes a modeling and analysis convention for a side- and/or toplit space called the ‘reference office’.
Christoph F. Reinhart, J. Alstan Jakubiec, Diego Ibarra
The present paper analyses a case study of the application of dynamic energy simulation on the energy efficiency improvement process of an existing commercial building, the retrofit of a CHP machine for the combined generation of heat and power is
Marco Picco, Vittorio Savoldelli, Marco Marengo

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