International Building Simulation Conference 2011, Sydney, Australia. 

Contains 206 papers.

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For optimal conservation of the stored objects, museum storage buildings require a very stable interior climate, with only minimal and slow variations in temperature and relative humidity.
Jørgen Erik Christensen and Hans Janssen
This paper describes the results of a study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of Phase Change Materials (PCM) for the improvement of summer thermal comfort in lightweight buildings.
Gianpiero Evola, Novella Papa, Fabio Sicurella, Etienne Wurtz
The drive to reduce carbon emissions and energy utilisation, directly associated with dwellings and to achieve a zero carbon home, suggests that the assessment of energy ratings will have an increasingly prioritised role in the built environment.
Murphy G B, Khalid Y, Counsell J
This paper investigates the accuracy of CFD simulation in predicting the nature of multiple plume interactions in a naturally ventilated indoor environment.
Faisal Durrani, Malcolm J Cook, James J McGuirk, Nigel B Kaye
A kind of separate heat-pipe heat exchanger (SHP exchanger), which can move heat from indoor air to outdoor air by making use of their temperature difference, uses much less energy consumption than air-conditioning system in base station due to no
Dan-dan Zhu, Da Yan, Zhen Li
People spend around 90% of their time in buildings while about 40% of primary energy needs are due to buildings.
Michaël Salvador, Stéphane Grieu
With the rising individual demand for energy as well as the diminishing fossil energy resources, new opti-mized concepts for energy supply and usage are re-quired for future buildings.
Torsten Schwan, Bernhard Bäker, René Unger, B. Mikoleit, Christian Kehrer
The sensitivity of a real (under construction) UK school building’s energy consumption to input parameters was investigated using IES Virtual Environment.
Stephen Simm, David Coley, Pieter de Wilde
An alternative to using numerical simulation to model ventilation performance is to model internal air flows using water-based experimental models.
Tong Yang, Richard A. Buswell and Malcolm J. Cook
The achievement of sustainable goals in the home environment demands an optimized management of electricity loads from the control side.The present work proposes a control approach based on an appropriate load definition, context awareness regardi
Felix Iglesias Vazquez, Wolfgang Kastner, Sergio Cantos Gaceo, Christian Reinisch
This document is a case study of the design and construction of a 30,000 sq.m office tower that has achieved an excellent energy efficiency outcome close to the simulated potential when modelled with actual weather data.
Jeffrey Binks
The William McCormack Place Stage 2 (WMP2) building is located in Cairns, North Queensland. The climate is classified as tropical equatorial, hot and humid.
Roger Cladingboel, Carl Gray, Graeme Standfield
Infiltration is rarely considered a critical factor in AC design. Purposed built buildings such as libraries or shopping centres with dynamic occupants may prove otherwise.
Eddy Rusly, Mirek Piechowski
This paper outlines a methodology for determining the thermal performance of a complex ventilated glazed facade system through desktop analysis and computer simulation.There is a limited amount of published work on the overall thermal performance
Mike Dagnall, Adriaan Window, Anthony Leung, Dayne Thompson
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation (CFD) has been mainly used for building scientists as an analysis tool to assess the complex phenomenon of building physics. It has recently been used as a design support tool.
Jihun Kim, Yun Kyu Yi, and Ali M. Malkawi
A simplified model of a primary HVAC system comprising an on-off boiler, thermal storage and solar thermal collectors is simulated in hourly resolution. The simulation passes the results to an optimization algorithm that sizes the system.
Milica Grahovac, Petra Liedl, Jérôme Frisch, Peter Tzscheutschler
Buildings and their renewable energy systems typically operate for a lifecycle of well over 20 years. Due to this the climate that a new building or renewable energy system will experience, will change over their effective functional lifetime.
Trevor Lee
Conventional air-conditioning methods in hospitals have often involved air-recycling and indefinite pressure regimes, which increase cross-infection risk.  Poor comfort conditions and indoor air quality (IAQ) have also been issues.
Nick Devlin
CFD modelling was identified as the only tool able to predict accurately the performance of a cooling system for a 200m high glazed building lift shaft located in Brisbane, Australia. A conjugate heat transfer, multiband radiation and moving mesh
Guillaume Jolly, Julien De Charentenay, aBrenton King
The introduction of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in Poland established minimal building energy performance requirements for new and retrofitted buildings without changing the U-value requirement for the building envelope in
Arkadiusz Węglarz, Piotr Narowski

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