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AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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This paper presents a study in support of decision mak-ing for building retrofit and energy supply strategy at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in southwest Lon-don, England.
In the Swiss research project OptiControl (www.opticontrol.ethz.ch), new predictive building control strategies are developed and applied to a fully occupied, well instrumented demonstrator building.
This paper presents a simple all-weather sky radiance model (diffuse component).
The purpose of this study is to assess the capabilities of a thermal model to represent actual building energy consumption when trying to best fit the input data of the model to the actual data of the building in operation. The approach has been a
This paper presents computational work in building information management, data interoperability, and data population, to support automatic carbon analysis.
Recently façade systems have integrated passive solutions to reduce the energy consumption in buildings and improve their occupants’ comfort.
The use of LEED as a building sustainability rating method is well established in the US. In this paper we concentrate on the calculation of the score in the Energy and Atmosphere category of LEED, i.e. the LEED-EAc1 score.
Thermal bridging is a problem that arises from using a thermosyphon. It is used as a passive part of the building envelope in south facing walls. A solution is proposed and investigated in this paper.
A bottom-up approach is developed for the specification of operational data with a high space-time resolution, to be used as inputs in multi-zone residential building models.
Traditional uncertainty quantification (UQ) in the design of energy efficient buildings is limited to the propagation of parameter uncertainties in model input variables.
We investigate the possibility of using geothermal hot water in heat-driven cooling systems, for air conditioning in tertiary buildings in Belgium.
This study reviews typical assumptions for days of operation, sub-space type receptacle and other unregulated process loads, and occupancy rates to propose a risk evaluation for energy simulation accuracy of office buildings.