International Building Simulation Conference 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Contains 153 papers

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In addition to the fact that the serviceability of building constructions used as exhibition halls has to be ensured, the climate stability of the whole structure has to be increased.
Hans-Peter Leimer and Jens Bode
The Energy Resources Center (ERC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago conducted an energy assessment to determine the peak cooling loads of the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) as part of MSI’s Long Term Development Plan.
Michael J. Chimack, Christine E. Walker, Ellen Franconi
Computer  simulation  Of  measurement  methods  can give in-depth information on the possible effect of a wide variety of parameters on measurement results.
Achim Geissler
This paper will describe a simulation experiment designed to benchmark the use of separate electric driven chiller plants for a nominal 100,000 sq.
M. Meckler
Technological advances in real-time data collection,data transfer and ever-increasing computational power are bringing simulation assisted control and on-line fault detection and diagnosis closer to reality than was imagined when Building Energy M
Clarke J A, Cockroft J, Conner S , Hand J W, Kelly N J, Moore R, O’Brien T and Strachan P
During the past few years, our research team has developed techniques to solve problems associated with designing a collaborative evaluation performance tool environment.
Eleni Primikiri and Ali Malkawi
This paper addresses the utility and the difficulties to predict the actual energy consumption of existing buildings, that can be useful to calculate true energy conservation potential taking into account the real usage of the building.
N. Adra¸ V.Richalet, F.P. Neirac
Over the last fifteen years, there have been a number of UK initiatives which facilitated practitioner access to simulation programs (e.g. Clarke and Maver 1991; McElroy et al 1997).
McElroy L B, Clarke J A, Hand J W, Macdonald I A
A new building energy simulation program developed under support from the US government was released in April 2001.
Drury B. Crawley, Linda K. Lawrie, Frederick C. Winkelmann, Curtis O. Pedersen
Classical building simulators are typically based on global systems of differential equations that model the physical reality and are numerically solved at runtime. In this paper we propose a new approach.
Gerhard Zimmermann
The aim of this work is to present a computer application that was developed to be a user-friendly interface that simplifies the manipulation of weather data files.
Eduardo Breviglieri Pereira de Castro
Building geometry is essential to any simulation of building performance. This paper examines from the users’ point of view the importing of building geometry into simulation of energy performance.
Vladimir Bazjanac
Physical and computational simulations have been combined within a unique framework for the aim of establishing a methodology for micro-level building thermal analysis.
Ruchi Choudhary and Ali Malkawi
The paper discusses the technical features of the physically based computer simulation/visualization techniques for architectural lighting research. Potentials and limitations are evaluated in terms of input, algorithms, output, and analysis tools
Mehlika N. Inanici
This paper describes a strategy to provide computational support for the selection of energy saving building components.
P. de Wilde , G. Augenbroe and M. van der Voorden
This paper argues that analytical approaches (i.e., simulation) and inductive learning methods (i.e., neural networks) can cooperate to facilitate a daylight responsive lighting control strategy.
Seongju Chang and Ardeshir Mahdavi
THERM is a freely available, user-friendly twodimensional heat transfer model for analyzing the impacts of thermal bridges in building components such as windows and doors.
Dragan Curcija, Dariush Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, Christian Kohler, Robin Mitchell
It is becoming a popular practice for architects and  HVAC engineers to simulate airflows in and around buildings by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)  methods in order to predict indoor and outdoor environments.
Charles R. Broderick, III and Qingyan Chen
The lack of widespread use of building environmental design decision support tools in architecture appears to be because the tools are often too simplistic.
Michael Donn, Robert Amor and David Harrison
In this paper we report the findings of a survey conducted to evaluate the energy-conservation performance of an office building some time after construction, and present the results of a simulation that was performed to identify possible improvem
Hisaya Ishino, Kimiko Kohri, Koui Tsukamoto, Keisuke Hirabayashi

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