A dynamic simulation of the HVAC system is being paid attention because of the development of the computer technology. Authors examined the reproducibility of HVACSIM+(J). As current program could not calculate the object system, it was the new component model corresponding to a model system was developed. As the result, it was shown that HVACSIM+(J) have enough reproducibility and possibility to generate the database for the fault detection and diagnosis, FDD, by comparing the simulated results and the measurements.

Despite the obvious importance of thermal comfort in the design of indoor environment, it has not been effectively integrated with design decision support tools. The reasons can be attributed in part to an absence of modular and flexible software architecture that facilitates dynamic data transfer between energy performance, lighting simulation, and thermal comfort modules.

This paper presents an investigation of the energy performance in an office building in Daejeon, Korea. The office building has a south-facing glazed double envelope and a rectangular atrium. During the preliminary design of the building, a study was conducted by the research team in order to achieve the annual energy consumption per unit area of the building under 240 Mcal/m2-yr. A number of building designs and HVAC system variables were analyzed in terms of energy performance.

We first developed an actual HVAC experimental chamber including an air distribution system, an air handling unit, fan coil units, and control systems. This experimental chamber is a real size model of a typical office and has a floor area of 61.44m2.

The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense (DOE and DOD) are jointly developing EnergyBase, a new building energy simulation tool that builds on the capabilities of BLAST and DOE-2.

The   purpose of our research deals with the description of a methodology for the definition of specific weather sequences and their influence  on the energy needs of HVAC system. We’ll apply the method on the tropical Reunion Island. The  methodological approach based on a detailed analysis of weather sequences leads to a classification  of climatic situations that can be applied to the site. These sequences have been used to simulate  buildings and air handling systems thanks to a thermal simulation code, CODYRUN.

Stadium Australia is to be the centrepiece of the year 2000 Sydney Olympics. The architects aimed to minimise energy consumption by incorporating passive design measures which would provide ventilation, natural cooling and warming and daylight.

HOT2000™, a residential energy analysis program, is constantly under evolution. New models are added to the program and its user base is ever expanding. As such it is important to continuously validate the program and ensure that it will be useful in its intended markets. To this end, HOT2000™ has been run through the HERS BESTEST, a comparative testing method against other detailed simulation programs. This report outlines the cases modeled and the assumptions which were made.

Optimization and control of displacement ventilation systems in buildings require accurate modeling of aeraulic and thermal phenomena involved in the establishment or the destruction of thermal stratification in the room. We carried out an analysis and developed global models on the basis of data from the Poitiers "Laboratoire d’Etudes Thermiques" experimental facility (see Figure°2).