International Building Simulation Conference 1999, Kyoto, Japan.

Contains 177 papers

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Energy Conservation Buildings are very effective for restraint of global warming, because they can reduce CO2 emissions in building operation, which account for 70% of Life Cycle emissions.
Hiroshi Ohga
The Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) is developing a new software (EnergyGauge USA) which allows simple calculation and rating of energy use of residential buildings around the United States.
Danny S. Parker, Paul A. Broman, John B. Grant Hugh I. Henderson Lixing Gu, Michael T. Anello, and Robin K. Vieira
Interoperability among software tools that are used in building design can make the use of building energy simulation tools more frequent and more effective.
Vladimir Bazjanac, Drury B. Crawley
A building simulation program has been developed and a model of a standard Swedish single family house has been built up. The model uses an explicit finite-difference method to calculate the temperatures of the next time step.
Svein H. Ruud and Per Fahlén
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the capabilities of four energy analysis software to predict the energy performance of an existing house. The discussion covers: (i) the modelling-related issues, and (ii) the impact of modelling accuracy
R. Zmeureanu, J. Brau L. Bernard, Y. Vlym, F. Mordel, F. Timores
This paper reports on two case studies that explore the current use of computational tools in building design scenarios.
Pieter de Wilde, Godfried Augenbroe and Marinus van der Voorden
This paper is focused on the development of measuring equipment of Effective Leakage Area (ELA) by AC pressurization method. The formula to design the measuring system is derived according to the governing equation of the leakage, e.g.
Yuko Watanabe, Hiroshi Kobayashi and Yasuo Utsumi
The potential of building energy simulation is now well recognised and the use of the technology by progressive energy sector companies is growing. The success of any building performance assessment hinges on the capabilities of the tool, the coll
McElroy L B, Clarke J A
This paper presents the process followed for defining the features of the next-generation HOT2000 simulator, and the conclusions drawn at the workshops, concerning the most appropriate modelling approaches.
Debra Haltrecht, Radu Zmeureanu and I. Beausoleil-Morrison
Simplified equations are established to estimate the energy consumption for the heating and cooling of residences, with the coefficients like air-conditioning area rate,  air-conditioning-hour rate,  etc..
Qingyuan Zhang, Kenji Asano, Hajime Imai, Tetsuo Hayashi, Yang Hong-Xing
This  paper   describes   the   methodology  and   the implementation of DEST, which is a simulation software developed to help the designer during design process. For each design phase, DEST provides corresponding method and program.
Chen Feng and Jiang Yi
For effective energy use and level off electricity demand throughout the day, thermal energy storage system is getting popular in HVAC systems in Japan. Load profile prediction can provide information to plan optimal operation, and now, various pr
Tadahiko Matsuba, Hiroaki Tsutsui and Kazuyuki Kamimura
IDA Indoor Climate and Energy is a recently developed tool for building performance modelling and simulation. It represents a new generation of BPM software in several ways.
Niclas Björsell, Axel Bring, Lars Eriksson, Pavel Grozman, Magnus Lindgren, Per Sahlin, Alexander Shapovalov, Mika Vuolle
This paper describes a simulation based method for the integrated performance appraisal of buildings incorporating daylight utilisation technologies.
Milan Janak and Iain Macdonald
The experiments involving clothed subjects are conducted to reproduce the situation in which people enter an air-conditioned room just after sweating, and analyzed using a combined model, which consists of two-node model for thermophysiological re
Satoru Takada, Shuichi Hokoi, Naoki Kawakami and Masanori Kudo
With the advent of the computing age, heat balance based techniques for simulating thermal loads in buildings became a reality for architects and engineers.
Richard Strand, Fred Winkelmann, Fred Buhl,Joe Huang, Richard Liesen, Curtis Pedersen, Daniel Fisher, Russell Taylor, Drury Crawley, Linda Lawrie
Many recent, moisture-originated failures in  low-rise residential and  high-rise residential/commercial buildings have put a significant pressure to change construction codes in North America and Europe.
Achilles Karagiozis, Mikael Salonvaara
This paper explains the development of a dedicated configuration tool for the HVACSIM+ simulation environment. This computer-based tool eases configuration by exploiting a visual metaphor of a simulation subject.
Yosuke Nishi, Xiangyang Chen, Nobuo Nakahara
The paper describes the development of a su pervisory control scheme that adapts to the presence of degradation faults and  minimises any resulting increase in energy consumption or deterioration  in  occupant  comfort   Since  there is a high deg
Xiong Fu Liu and Arthur Dexter

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