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Shade and Thermal Comfort in Courtyards: Experimental versus Simulation Results

Buildings, 2022
Outdoor comfort is gaining attention in the design of our cities to face the current context of rising temperatures. Although simulation is required to inform the early design stage of projects considering outdoor space and strategies to improve their ...
Victoria Patricia López-Cabeza, Eduardo Diz-Mellado, Carlos Alberto Rivera-Gómez, Carmen Galán-Marín   +3 more
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Towards a Residential Air-Conditioner Usage Model for Australia

Energies, 2017
Realistic models of occupant behaviour in relation to air-conditioner (a/c) use are fundamentally important for developing accurate building energy simulation tools.
Mark Goldsworthy
doaj   +1 more source

Review of Transparent and Semi-Transparent Building-Integrated Photovoltaics for Fenestration Application Modeling in Building Simulations

Energies, 2022
Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) have attracted interest due to their capacity to feasibly supply buildings with renewable power generation, helping to achieve net-zero or net-positive energy goals.
Joaquim Romaní, Alba Ramos, Jaume Salom
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Impact of Passive Cooling on Thermal Comfort in a Single-Family Building for Current and Future Climate Conditions

Energies, 2020
Today, there is a great deal of emphasis on reducing energy use in buildings for both economic and environmental reasons. Investors strongly encourage the insulating of buildings.
Krzysztof Grygierek, Izabela Sarna
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Improving Building Energy Efficiency through Measurement of Building Physics Properties Using Dynamic Heating Tests [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Buildings contribute to nearly 30% of global carbon dioxide emissions, making a significant impact on climate change. Despite advanced design methods, such as those based on dynamic simulation tools, a
Jankovic, Ljubomir
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Utilization of building design performance simulation in the architectural design studio process

ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2022
Design is a unified system consists of parameters that influence each other, so design considerations must be careful. Building design performance is a measurable parameter, and integrating the planning and design process can make decision-making more ...
MD Krisna Adya Anindita, Frengky Benediktus Ola, Natalia Suwarno, Nimas Sekarlangit   +3 more
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Comparison of Different Solar-Assisted Air Conditioning Systems for Australian Office Buildings

Energies, 2017
This study has investigated the feasibility of three different solar-assisted air conditioning systems for typical medium-sized office buildings in all eight Australian capital cities using the whole building energy simulation software EnergyPlus.
Yunlong Ma, Suvash C. Saha, Wendy Miller, Lisa Guan   +3 more
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Green Walls, a Critical Review: Knowledge Gaps, Design Parameters, Thermal Performances and Multi-Criteria Design Approaches

Energies, 2020
The green wall is an engineered technology for stormwater management and climate change mitigation at the urban level. At the building scale, these energy efficiency measures are suitable for improving indoor comfort conditions and for reducing energy ...
Fabrizio Ascione, Rosa Francesca De Masi, Margherita Mastellone, Silvia Ruggiero, Giuseppe Peter Vanoli   +4 more
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Impact on Thermal Energy Needs Caused by the Use of Different Solar Irradiance Decomposition and Transposition Models: Application of EN ISO 52016-1 and EN ISO 52010-1 Standards for Five European Cities

Energies, 2022
To solve the series of heat balances that EN ISO 52016-1 uses to simulate the dynamic hourly energy requirements of a building, detailed climatic data are required as input.
Serena Summa, Giada Remia, Ambra Sebastianelli, Gianluca Coccia, Costanzo Di Perna   +4 more
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Building optimization testing framework (BOPTEST) for simulation-based benchmarking of control strategies in buildings

Journal of Building Performance Simulation, Taylor & Francis, 2021
Development of new building HVAC control algorithms has grown due to needs for energy efficiency and operational flexibility. However, case studies demonstrating new algorithms are largely individualized, making algorithm performance difficult to compare
David H. Blum, J. Arroyo, Sen Huang, Ján Drgoňa, F. Jorissen, H. Walnum, Yan Chen, K. Benne, D. Vrabie, M. Wetter, L. Helsen   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source