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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Building Performance Simulation"”.
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Characterisation of occupancy in building performance simulation for non-residential buildings
Building performance simulation (BPS) is a powerful tool for understanding energy consumption in buildings. Occupant behaviour in general, and occupancy in particular, has been identified as an important factor contributing to the gap between building performance simulation results and actual …
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Viability of naturally ventilated buildings in the UK under predicted future summer climates
… for overheating of naturally ventilated office buildings, many of which already fail to perform under current heatwave conditions. This thesis addresses the summer performance of such buildings under current and future climates by means of building performance simulation. Current industry …
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La simulazione termoenergetica dinamica del sistema edificio-impianti applicata a un caso studio:l'azienda ospedaliera "G. Brotzu"
… first part that involved the validation test of building energy modeling software, in order to compare calibrate numerical solution to experimental measures of energy demand and thermo-hygrometric parameters. Once installed in the Internal Medicine Department (of the AOB Hospital in Cagliari) a …
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Development of an Occupant-centric Control Algorithm for Mixed-Mode Ventilation Buildings to Regulate Window Operations
… and mechanical ventilation to improve building energy efficiency and indoor air quality. However, in practice, mixed-mode ventilation buildings do not always achieve better performance than mechanically ventilated buildings, largely due to inappropriate window operations. Therefore, the …
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Towards comfortable and walkable cities : spatially resolved outdoor thermal comfort analysis linked to travel survey-based human activity schedules
… design processes, there is a need for developing simulation frameworks that aid architects, urban designers and planners in making informed sustainable design decisions. The focus of this work, therefore, is the development of computer tools and workflows that promote the design of walkable and …
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Creating space for HVAC systems: A new, intuition-building approach to HVAC system integration in architectural education and practice
… to ensuring a healthy indoor environment in buildings. They are essential to the global shift toward a decarbonized, all-electric future. While integrated design practice has promised cost, energy, and space savings due to earlier and more frequent collaboration between design disciplines, …
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Daylit density : a simulation-based framework towards performance-aware zoning and real estate development
… designs before construction. Recent advances in building performance simulation software allow us to compute annual climate-based daylight performance metrics of urban environments accurately, in high spatial resolution and in a timely manner. Given that zoning requirements as well as massing …
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Developing a comprehensive software environment for passive solar design
… to focus a designer's attention on pertinent building performance simulation data, which could be more effectively used to influence design decisions at the various stages of the design process. This leads to a discussion of how these shortcomings could be overcome through a new and different …
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Procedures for automated building energy model production for urban and early design
… is meant to facilitate a wider use of energy simulation in urban and schematic building design. The major contribution is the development and validation of software algorithms that can manage, automatically produce and execute building energy models for urban and schematic design. Modeling …
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Champs-Multizone and Virtual Building for Integrated Building Systems Design and Performance Evaluation
… develop an integrated framework that facilitates performance-based multi-stage design of buildings and comparison between the performance predicted at the design stage and that monitored at operation stage. Such an integrated framework would not only enable design optimization, but also enable …
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An interactive performance-based expert system for daylighting in architectural design
… tools during the design process; however, building performance simulation continues to be more commonly utilized for analysis rather than as a design aid. Additionally, while simulation tools provide the user with valuable information, they do not necessarily guide the designer towards …
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Hydroponic container farms : validation of a building energy model and its integration in urban design
… of food systems. However, due to limitations of building performance simulation (BPS) tools, existing urban design methodologies assess the energy use of plant factories using simplified building energy models that omit the energetic effects of plants. While previous studies have developed …
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A Framework for the Utilization of CFD in the Early Stages of Architectural Design
… design process. However, the CFD users in the building industry tend to be limited to researchers and engineers rather than architectural designers due to the complexity of the simulations including the extensive knowledge required for the processing. The benefit of using CFD would be maximized …
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Validated interactive daylighting analysis for architectural design
… interior illumination and visual discomfort in buildings is to run a ray tracing simulation with high accuracy settings, wait while the simulation processes, and repeat as necessary with modifications to the scene and settings. This workflow lacks interactivity and usually occurs late in the …
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Preventive conservation of works of art in historic buildings : assessment and modelling
… of the degradation of works of art in historic buildings is caused by unfavourable indoor climate conditions. The most important works of art receive invasive conservation treatment, called direct action, but this treatment is very expensive. To avoid invasive conservation treatments and ensure …
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Privacy-aware human presence and movement analysis in controlled and uncontrolled environments
… utilization of calibrated occupancy models for building performance simulation and prediction, which are tools increasingly used by the architecture, engineers and construction community at design, refurbishment and operational phases of a building lifecycle. Furthermore, as of today, an …
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INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) AND BUILDING ENERGY OPTIMIZATION THROUGH MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC)
… and indoor environmental quality in office buildings. Model predictive control is one of the advanced optimal control approaches that use models to predict the behavior of the process beyond the current time to optimize the system operation at the present time. In building system, MPC helps …
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Adaptive thermal comfort and its application in mixed mode buildings: The case of a hot-summer and cold-winter climate in China
… This may be applied in mixed mode (MM) buildings to achieve a higher air-conditioning (AC) setpoint which may lead to a significant reduction in cooling energy. This method is believed to be flexible in dealing with different environments with various levels of adaptations and likely to …
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Refurbishment of UK state school buildings: A strategy and framework for BIM-based Digital Twinning
… reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, the UK government identified Building Information Modelling (BIM) as central to meeting these targets and it has been mandated in all public sector projects since April 2016. The increasing adoption of BIM across the UK’s AEC industry …
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A new framework to switch from Zero Energy to Zero Power Buildings
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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