Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Thu, 05/28/2015 - 13:03
Numerous studies have investigated the application of multi-zone demand-controlled ventilation for office buildings. However, although Swedish regulations allow ventilation rates in residential buildings to be decreased by 70 % during non-occupancy, this system is not very common in the sector. The main focus of the present study was to experimentally investigate the indoor air quality and energy consumption when using multi-zone demand-controlled ventilation in a residential building. The building studied was located in Borlänge, Sweden.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 15:46
Net-zero energy building (NZEB) is thought to be the building of choice, but in practice, is also synonym to high investment cost. It is, therefore, very important to investigate if the amount of the additional capital investment could be recouped from the energy saving (or generation). The investigation is particularly meaningful for industrial halls for the great energy saving potential (with respect to the high energy demand) and the ready energy generation possibility (due to favourable building geometry).
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:51
This paper investigates the effectiveness of multiple external shading devices and identifies the most effective fixed external shading configurations for commercial building types in hot climates. Daylight contribution is also analysed in detail in order to monitor the daylighting factor reduction including uniformity for each shading configuration. Existing dynamic thermal modeling software is used to completing analysis on a theoretical open office plan building.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Thu, 06/19/2014 - 12:36
This paper presents a new methodology for largescale commercial buildings energy consumption data analysis. This methodology relies on a unified energy consumption classification structure and on a set of index models and estimating models. All these elements have been combined into a data model that is presented in this article. This new methodology has been applied successfully to 4 office buildings, two of them being Chinese and two of them being French.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 17:49
Over the last three decades the use of building performance simulation (BPS) tools has increased but its ability to support building design is still limited. State of the art BPS tools have the potential to be used more extensively during the entire design process if their current capabilities are expanded.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 17:44
There are several ways to attempt to model a building and its heat gains from external sources as well as internal ones in order to evaluate a proper operation and also audit retrofits actions. These models apply various techniques varying from simple regression to more physically grounded models.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 17:42
Nowadays, building performance simulation (BPS) is still primarily used for code compliance checking in the Netherlands whilst it could provide the user already useful design information by e.g. indicating design solutions or introducing uncertainty analysis (UA) and sensitivity analysis (SA). This paper summarizes results from an ongoing research introducing UA and SA in BPS. A case study is performed based on a hypothetical building which is part of an international test method for assessing the accuracy of BPS tools with respect to various building performance parameters.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 15:50
In this paper, three typical cities (Shanghai, Changsha and Chongqing) in the hot summer and cold winter climate zone of China was selected to study and the energy consumption of a model building in these three locations was simulated by eQuest software. After comparing the result, the differences among them were shown in this paper. From the viewpoint of building energy consumption, solar radiation may be a positive factor in winter but negative in summer.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 15:05
The aim of this research work is to investigate the actual energy consumption in existing public buildings and to obtain the basic data for energy conservation of these buildings. Various monthly energy consumption data of public buildings in Osaka for the period from April 2000 to March 2002 was gathered and analyzed to determine the nature of the energy consumption of buildings. One of the investigated buildings is selected as the typical building and the heat load is calculated. The calculated values of the energy consumption are compared with the investigation values.
Submitted by Maria.Kapsalaki on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 09:50
In order to determine the optimal combination of the heating source equipments in an existing office building, simulations of six different combination cases were conducted using the newly developed mathematical models of each component. From the simulation results, the optimal combination case can reduce the energy consumption by 19.7%, running cost by 12.8% and carbon-dioxide emissions by 29.6%, compared to the present operational combination.