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Development Of A Supermarket Prototype Building Model, Piljae Im, Brian A. Fricke, Joshua R. New, Mark B. Adams Sep 2018

Development Of A Supermarket Prototype Building Model, Piljae Im, Brian A. Fricke, Joshua R. New, Mark B. Adams

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The U.S. Department of Energy supports the development of commercial building energy codes and standards by participating in industry reviews, update processes, and providing technical analyses to support both published model codes and potential changes. In support of ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 and the International Energy Conservation Code, 16 commercial prototype building models were developed that cover 80% of the commercial building floor area in the United States for new construction, including both commercial buildings and mid- to high-rise residential buildings, across all U.S. climate zones. However, the current set of commercial prototype building models does not include a supermarket building …

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House: Building Energy Efficiency Understanding Through An Enabled Boundary Object, Deborah Adkins, Peter R.N. Childs Sep 2018

House: Building Energy Efficiency Understanding Through An Enabled Boundary Object, Deborah Adkins, Peter R.N. Childs

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We report the results of an empirical study on an enabled application’s ability to act as a boundary object and build understanding of energy efficiency solutions. Combining digital and tangible technology with radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, we have created an interactive, digitally enabled device and application called HOUSE (Home User and Stakeholder Environment). The HOUSE tool and application have been designed and developed to support interaction and collaboration in the exploration of domestic energy efficiency solutions. HOUSE allows users to associate information with physical representations, and to explore this information through manipulation of enabled objects. The interactive application consists of …

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The Influence Of Window Opening Habits On The Residential Energy Use In Nearly Zero Energy Buildings, Silke Verbruggen, Marc Delghust, Jelle Laverge, Arnold Janssens Sep 2018

The Influence Of Window Opening Habits On The Residential Energy Use In Nearly Zero Energy Buildings, Silke Verbruggen, Marc Delghust, Jelle Laverge, Arnold Janssens

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In this paper, we discuss the presence of habits in the window opening behaviour of social housing tenants in a nearly zero-energy development in Belgium. A window opening habit can be defined as an action with a window that is repeated daily around the same time independently of the prevailing weather conditions. A carbon neutral social housing estate (106 apartments and 90 single family dwellings) was used as a test case. Questionnaires, window opening logging with a building monitoring system and cross-sectional surveys were used to collect window opening data. A method to identify window opening habits is determined. Up …

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Achieving Faster Building Energy Model Optimization Through Selective Zone Elimination, Zixiao Shi, Scott Bucking, William O'Brien Sep 2018

Achieving Faster Building Energy Model Optimization Through Selective Zone Elimination, Zixiao Shi, Scott Bucking, William O'Brien

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Optimization in building performance simulation (BPS) has become increasingly important due to the growing need for high-performance building design and operation. Numerous research efforts have been dedicated to decreasing optimization runtime by introducing improved optimization algorithms and advanced sampling techniques. This paper presents a novel model order reduction (MOR) algorithm tailored for speeding up building energy simulation. The algorithm identifies archetype zones simplifying the needless repetition of thermal zones. For an entire optimization process, this MOR method can be repeated recursively to reproduce reduced models. The proposed method can be used to speed up large-scale simulations including optimization, uncertainty analysis …

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Optimization Of Night Cooling Of Commercial Premises Using Genetic Algorithms And Neural Networks, Emmy Dahlström, Linus Rönn, Angela Sasic Kalagasidis Sep 2018

Optimization Of Night Cooling Of Commercial Premises Using Genetic Algorithms And Neural Networks, Emmy Dahlström, Linus Rönn, Angela Sasic Kalagasidis

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This paper investigates if it is possible to optimize night cooling control setpoints and ventilation schedule regarding energy consumption and indoor climate. A retail store, located in Gothenburg, was used as a case study. The investigation was done by numerical modelling and simulations. It started with development and calibration of a building energy model for the store with data collected from the field. Afterwards, the calibrated model was used in the optimization of the night cooling. Initially, a genetic algorithm was applied to find the global minimum of the problem and further refined with a local search algorithm. The optimization …

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Determination Of Lead Dust Fall Rates During Deconstruction Of Wood Frame Buildings In An Urban Region In The Northeastern United States, Paul Crovella, Marc Delaney, Melisa Kohan Sep 2018

Determination Of Lead Dust Fall Rates During Deconstruction Of Wood Frame Buildings In An Urban Region In The Northeastern United States, Paul Crovella, Marc Delaney, Melisa Kohan

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Title: Lead dust fall deposition rates during deconstruction of wood frame buildings in an urban region in the Northeastern United States. Objectives: Determine the lead dust fall deposition rate due to hybrid deconstruction (separation and removal of building components) of wood-frame structures, and compare that to the lead dust fall deposition rate from demolition (compression and collapse of building components). Scope: A city block with a total of 11 wood-frame structures was selected as the location for the deconstruction leadfall testing. Testing was done during the deconstruction of 7 of the 11 pre-1950 homes (mean construction year 1928, mean floor …

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Hygrothermal Performance Of A Hygroscopic And Permeable Wall Assembly: Impact Of A Vented Wall Cavity, Diane Bastien, Martin Winther-Gaasvig Sep 2018

Hygrothermal Performance Of A Hygroscopic And Permeable Wall Assembly: Impact Of A Vented Wall Cavity, Diane Bastien, Martin Winther-Gaasvig

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Building envelopes that are hygroscopic and permeable to water vapour can contribute to improve the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) in buildings by reducing indoor humidity fluctuations and the concentration of some contaminants like CO2. However, risks of interstitial condensation and mold growth need to be assessed to ensure the durability of such building envelopes. The objective of this paper is to perform hygrothermal simulations of a case study house designed with a Hygroscopic and Permeable Building Envelope (HPBE) and to assess the impact of having a vented cavity compared to a face-sealed wall. This contribution presents hygrothermal simulations of a …

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Improving Durability Of Wooden Beam Bearings In Inside Insulated Walls By Tempering The Beam’S Heads, Paul Wegerer, Thomas Bednar Sep 2018

Improving Durability Of Wooden Beam Bearings In Inside Insulated Walls By Tempering The Beam’S Heads, Paul Wegerer, Thomas Bednar

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Improving durability of wooden beam bearings after a thermal renovation via interior insulation is highly demanding for planners. Because of an isolated thermal bridge in the area of the wooden beam head the risk of condensation water forming in this area increases after installing interior insulation. The problem with wooden beam ends has been analysed increasingly in the last few years by many research institutions as wooden ceiling constructions are common in existing buildings. Furthermore, thermal renovation makes a vital contribution regarding improving the energy-efficiency of existing buildings. In this paper a method to temper wooden beam ends is introduced. …

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Understanding Swelling Of Wood Through Multiscale Modeling, Dominique Derome, Chi Zhang, Mingyang Chen, Jan Carmeliet Sep 2018

Understanding Swelling Of Wood Through Multiscale Modeling, Dominique Derome, Chi Zhang, Mingyang Chen, Jan Carmeliet

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Wood is a well-used building material where the capacity of wood to absorb water leads to swelling and reduced mechanical properties, and also to questions of durability. The origin of the hygroscopic behavior of wood lies at the nanoscale material that composes its cell walls. Using atomistic modeling, we study the hygromechanical behavior of the different polymeric components of wood, separately and in aggregate configurations. We report the coupled effects of water sorption on the hygric and mechanical properties of the S2 cell wall layer and we upscale the findings using a poromechanical framework.

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Sorption Hysteresis In Wood And Its Coupling To Swelling: A New Modelling Approach, Jan Carmeliet, Mingyang Chen, Dominique Derome Sep 2018

Sorption Hysteresis In Wood And Its Coupling To Swelling: A New Modelling Approach, Jan Carmeliet, Mingyang Chen, Dominique Derome

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Sorption hysteresis of amorphous cellulose is studied. Cellulose, as a renewable organic biopolymer, is an essential component of various natural composites such as wood. A coupling process between sorption and deformation leads to the hysteresis as observed in sorption and swelling, both experimental and simulated for cellulose and wood in general.

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Analysis Of Dynamic Variation Characteristics And Influential Factors Of Pm2.5 On Subway Platforms Under Air-Conditioning Condition And Ventilation Condition, Lihui Wang, Jihua Zhang, Tianwei Hu, Meng Kong, Jensen Zhang, Jie Song, Yi Zheng Sep 2018

Analysis Of Dynamic Variation Characteristics And Influential Factors Of Pm2.5 On Subway Platforms Under Air-Conditioning Condition And Ventilation Condition, Lihui Wang, Jihua Zhang, Tianwei Hu, Meng Kong, Jensen Zhang, Jie Song, Yi Zheng

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the main influential factors of the subway Particulate Matter (PM) pollutants under the air-conditioning condition and ventilation condition, by an on-site field measurement in a subway station in Shanghai. It is found that the dust accumulation at fresh air shaft was the secondary dusting action under the influence of fresh air flow, leading to a higher concentration of the PM in the subway station than in the outdoor air even when the outdoor air quality was good. In addition, in the morning rush hour the PM 2.5 value near the platform screen …

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An Investigation On The Quantitative Correlation Between Urban Morphology Parameters And Outdoor Ventilation Efficiency Indices, Wowo Ding, Yunlong Peng, Zhi Gao Sep 2018

An Investigation On The Quantitative Correlation Between Urban Morphology Parameters And Outdoor Ventilation Efficiency Indices, Wowo Ding, Yunlong Peng, Zhi Gao

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Urban outdoor ventilation and pollutant dispersion have important implications for the urban planning and design of urban morphology. In this paper, two urban morphology parameters including Floor area ratio (FAR) and Building site coverage (BSC) are attempted to investigate the quantitative correlation with urban ventilation indices. Firstly, we present an idealized model including nine basic units. The FAR of model is constant 5.0, and the BSC increases from 11% to 77%, which in consequence generates 101 non-repetitive asymmetric forms. Next, the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is employed to evaluate the ventilation efficiency of pedestrian level within each model’s central area. …

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Utilization Of Heat Recovery Ventilation: Steady-State Two-Zone Heat Loss Analysis And Field Studies, Arnold Janssens, Wolf Bracke, Marc Delghust, Eline Himpe, Silke Verbruggen, Jelle Laverge Sep 2018

Utilization Of Heat Recovery Ventilation: Steady-State Two-Zone Heat Loss Analysis And Field Studies, Arnold Janssens, Wolf Bracke, Marc Delghust, Eline Himpe, Silke Verbruggen, Jelle Laverge

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In new houses in Europe the share of mechanical ventilation with heat recovery is increasing as a result of more severe energy performance requirements and of energy labelling for residential ventilation units. The methods used to assess the influence of heat recovery ventilation on the heating energy use in energy labelling and certification are typically based on single zone energy balance equations, although heating behaviour and set-points differ in different rooms of a dwelling. As a result of this the energy savings of heat recovery ventilation as assessed with single zone methods may be larger than when the spatial variations …

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Comparison Of Data-Driven Building Energy Use Models For Retrofit Impact Evaluation, Yujie Xu, Azizan Aziz, Bertrand Lasternas, Vivian Loftness Sep 2018

Comparison Of Data-Driven Building Energy Use Models For Retrofit Impact Evaluation, Yujie Xu, Azizan Aziz, Bertrand Lasternas, Vivian Loftness

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A change-point (piecewise linear regression) model fitted to the pre-retrofit data as the counterfactual for the savings calculation, is considered to be the best approach to evaluating the energy savings of building retrofits ( ASHRAE Guideline 14). However, when applied to a large portfolio savings analysis with substantial multi-year data, the change-point model does not fit the data well in some cases. The study thus aims to improve the accuracy of the changepoint model by: 1) using more advanced non-linear models, 2) incorporating additional input features, and 3) increasing the time resolution of input variables. We found that random forest …

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Use Of Calibrated Building Simulation To Investigate Comfort Conditions In A Healthcare Facility, Luca Zaniboni, Giovanni Pernigotto, Matthias Schuß, Kristina Kiesel, Andrea Gasparella, Ardeshir Mahdavi Sep 2018

Use Of Calibrated Building Simulation To Investigate Comfort Conditions In A Healthcare Facility, Luca Zaniboni, Giovanni Pernigotto, Matthias Schuß, Kristina Kiesel, Andrea Gasparella, Ardeshir Mahdavi

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Design activity regarding healthcare buildings must not only address the energy efficiency aspects but also account for the indoor thermal comfort conditions. Indeed, the occupants of this category of buildings are affected by different kinds of health issues. Thus, particular efforts are required in order to ensure conditions adequate for therapies and medical treatments. Simulation can be a helpful tool in designing new buildings, particularly in case of complex clinics and hospitals. When analyzing existing facilities, a proper calibration is a necessary step to reduce discrepancies between simulated and measured performance. This improves the reliability of the model itself and …

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Inter-Activehouse: Users-Driven Building Performances For Nearly Zero Energy Buildings In Mediterranean Climates, Arianna Brambilla, Federica Brunone, Alberto Sangiorgio, Marco Imperadori Sep 2018

Inter-Activehouse: Users-Driven Building Performances For Nearly Zero Energy Buildings In Mediterranean Climates, Arianna Brambilla, Federica Brunone, Alberto Sangiorgio, Marco Imperadori

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Building simulations rely on fixed assumptions and mathematical models to describe a specific building scenario, overlooking the building occupants’ component. Almost 40% of in-home energy use is due occupants interacts with the building systems. The goal of this paper is to understand the magnitude of the performance gap when applied to two case studies in a Mediterranean climate. A set of scenarios are simulated assuming both a typical building usage and possible variations given by the users’ interactions with shading, ventilation and cooling systems. Results show that the magnitude of the effects with a negative impact is bigger if compared …

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Assessing The Performance Of Photocatalytic Oxidation Of Volatile Organic Compounds In Three Different Scaled Set-Ups, Zahra Shayegan, Chang-Seo Lee, Ali Bahloul, Fariborz Haghighat Sep 2018

Assessing The Performance Of Photocatalytic Oxidation Of Volatile Organic Compounds In Three Different Scaled Set-Ups, Zahra Shayegan, Chang-Seo Lee, Ali Bahloul, Fariborz Haghighat

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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are considered a major group of indoor air contaminants with several proven adverse health effects. Ultraviolet photocatalytic oxidation process (UVPCO) is a promising technology for the removal of VOC contaminants in indoor air environments. In addition, adequate efficiency of PCO has been proven in laboratory conditions. However, when PCO is scaled up and applied in real conditions, there are some limitations that need to be addressed. Several factors are involved in the efficiency of the PCO process such as humidity, flow rate (residence time), inlet of contaminant concentration, light source, etc. To the best of our …

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Fate Of Particles Released By A Puff–Dispersion With Different Air Distributions, Shichao Liu, Atila Novoselac Sep 2018

Fate Of Particles Released By A Puff–Dispersion With Different Air Distributions, Shichao Liu, Atila Novoselac

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Well-mixed assumption normally has flaws in the space with continuous-releasing particle sources. For transient point or puff sources, however, particle concentration might vary differently among locations during emission periods and afterwards. This study measures whether and how rapidly ventilation systems can distribute particles emitted from puff-like sources in an indoor space. The impact of ventilation pattern (over-head mixing ventilation and displacement ventilation), particle size (0.77, 2.5 and 7 μm) and source location are also examined. The results show that particles with sizes of 0.77 μm and 2.5 μm can be distributed uniformly by both mixing ventilation and displace ventilation shortly …

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New Microclimate Monitoring Method And Data Process For Investigating Environmental Conditions In Complex Urban Contexts, Ilaria Pigliautile, Veronica Lucia Castaldo, Anna Laura Pisello Sep 2018

New Microclimate Monitoring Method And Data Process For Investigating Environmental Conditions In Complex Urban Contexts, Ilaria Pigliautile, Veronica Lucia Castaldo, Anna Laura Pisello

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The rapid urbanization of the last century coupled with local climate change imputable to anthropogenic actions triggered a huge research effort aimed at investigating urban microclimate. Typically, cities present a variety of microclimates due to the internal variation of their landscapes in terms of morphology, surfaces properties, presence of greenery, etc. Location-specific microclimate conditions affect both (i) building energy needs and (ii) citizens’ quality of life. For these reasons, a small-scale analysis from the citizen perspective with high-time-resolution environmental data is required. Recent studies tried to reach that level of precision by using remote sensing, movable observational transects or dense …

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Energy Flexibility Of Building Cluster – Part I: Occupancy Modelling, Rongling Li, Andong Wang, Carsten Rode, Shi You Sep 2018

Energy Flexibility Of Building Cluster – Part I: Occupancy Modelling, Rongling Li, Andong Wang, Carsten Rode, Shi You

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With the growing application of renewable energy, the stability of power systems can be seriously affected due to the fluctuations in the instantaneous generated power. As one of the potential solutions for this upcoming challenge, energy flexibility of buildings has received attention for research and technology development. Demand response and energy flexibility should be implemented at a large scale to have the accumulated energy flexibility to a magnitude, which can be meaningful for energy sectors. Studies have shown that the energy flexibility of a building is greatly influenced by both building physical characteristics and occupancy pattern of residents. To the …

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Radon Levels In Rented Accommodation, Torben Valdbjørn Rasmussen Sep 2018

Radon Levels In Rented Accommodation, Torben Valdbjørn Rasmussen

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Indoor radon levels were measured in 221 homes located in 53 buildings, including 28 multioccupant houses and 25 single-family terraced houses. The homes consisted of rented accommodation located in buildings recorded as being constructed before 2010 and after the year 1850. In addition, the radon level was measured in the basement in 9 of the buildings. The mean year value of the indoor radon level was 30.7 (1–250) Bq/m3. The indoor radon level exceeded 100 Bq/m3 in 5.9% of the homes, all located in single-family terraced houses. The variable single-family terraced houses explained 5.9% of the variation in indoor radon …

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Improving The Representation Of Convective Heat Transfer In An Urban Canopy Model, Qi Li, Jiachuan Yang, Zhi-Hua Wang, Elie Bou-Zeid Sep 2018

Improving The Representation Of Convective Heat Transfer In An Urban Canopy Model, Qi Li, Jiachuan Yang, Zhi-Hua Wang, Elie Bou-Zeid

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The urban street canyon has been widely recognized as a basic surface unit in urban micrometeorological studies. Urban canopy models (UCMs), which quantify the exchange of energy and momentum between the urban surface and the overlying atmosphere, often adopt this type of street canyon representation as the fundamental surface element. Since UCMs can be coupled to regional-scale weather and climate models such as the Weather Forecast and Research Model (WRF), parametrizations of the surface momentum and scalar fluxes in UCM are of paramount importance. However, many current single-layer UCMs rely on empirical relations that were obtained over 80 years ago …

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Streamlined Cfd Simulation Framework To Generate Wind-Pressure Coefficients On Building Facades For Airflow Network Simulations, Timur Dogan, Patrick Kastner Sep 2018

Streamlined Cfd Simulation Framework To Generate Wind-Pressure Coefficients On Building Facades For Airflow Network Simulations, Timur Dogan, Patrick Kastner

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Energy modeling packages such as EnergyPlus and TRNSYS come with capable airflow network solvers for natural ventilation evaluation in multi-zone building energy models. These approaches rely on pressure coefficient arrays of different wind directions based on simple boxshaped buildings without contextual obstructions. For specific sites, however, further attention is needed to avoid geometric oversimplification. In this study, we present an automated and easy-to-use simulation workflow for exterior airflow simulation based on OpenFOAM to generate pressure coefficient arrays for arbitrary building shapes and contextual situations. The workflow is compared to other methods commonly used to obtain pressure coefficients for natural ventilation …

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Unsteady-State Exergy Analysis On Two Types Of Building Envelopes Under Time-Varying Boundary Condition, Wonjun Choi, Ryozo Ooka, Masanori Shukuya Sep 2018

Unsteady-State Exergy Analysis On Two Types Of Building Envelopes Under Time-Varying Boundary Condition, Wonjun Choi, Ryozo Ooka, Masanori Shukuya

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In the built environment, the thermal exergy behavior is very sensitive to the change of environmental temperature, because the temperature difference between the reservoir and a system of interest is small. Moreover, the transient characteristics become very important for the building envelope, which is primarily affected by the environmental temperature changes and has a relatively large heat capacity. Most of the exergy analyses have been performed under steady-state assumption. However, it may miss some important details of the transient process. Thus, when the transient transfer process becomes important, the unsteady-state exergy analysis should be conducted. In this study, we propose …

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Neural Networks To Predict The Hygrothermal Response Of Building Components In A Probabilistic Framework, Astrid Tijskens, Staf Roels, Hans Janssen Sep 2018

Neural Networks To Predict The Hygrothermal Response Of Building Components In A Probabilistic Framework, Astrid Tijskens, Staf Roels, Hans Janssen

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In recent years, probabilistic assessment of hygrothermal performance of building components has received increasing attention. Given the many uncertainties involved in the hygrothermal behaviour of building components, a probabilistic assessment enables to assess the damage risk more reliably. However, this typically involves thousands of simulations, which easily becomes computationally inhibitive. To overcome this time-efficiency issue, this paper proposes the use of much faster metamodels. This paper focusses on neural networks, as they have proven to be successful in other non-linear and non-stationary research applications. Two types of networks are considered: the traditional multilayer perceptron (with and without a time window) …

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Modeling And Model Calibration For Model Predictive Occupants Comfort Control In Buildings, Shiyu Yang, Man Pun Wan, Bing Feng Ng, Zhe Zhang, Adrian S. Lamano, Wanyu Chen Sep 2018

Modeling And Model Calibration For Model Predictive Occupants Comfort Control In Buildings, Shiyu Yang, Man Pun Wan, Bing Feng Ng, Zhe Zhang, Adrian S. Lamano, Wanyu Chen

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Mathematical models are essential in Model-Predictive Control (MPC) for building automation and control (BAC) application, which must be precise and computationally efficient for realtime optimization and control. However, building models are of high complexity because of the nonlinearities of heat and mass transfer processes in buildings and their air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation (ACMV) systems. This paper proposes a method to develop an integrated linear model for indoor air temperature, humidity and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) index suitable for fast real-time multiple objectives optimization. A linear dynamic model is developed using SIMSCAPE language based on the BCA SkyLab test bed facility …

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The Effects Of Production Technologies On The Air Permeability Properties Of Cross Laminated Timber, Villu Kukk, Targo Kalamees, Jaan Kers Sep 2018

The Effects Of Production Technologies On The Air Permeability Properties Of Cross Laminated Timber, Villu Kukk, Targo Kalamees, Jaan Kers

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In building envelope, the cross laminated timber (CLT) is often used as air barrier layer. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of production technologies such as edge bonding, different initial moisture content (MC) of lamination, and number of lamination layers (3 and 5) on the air-permeability properties of cross laminated timber. Air leakage and crack growth in CLT panels were measured after the panels were conditioned in environments with different relative humidity (RH) in progressive steps from humid to dry environments (RH 70%→ RH 50%→ RH 30%→ RH 10%). The test results showed that the most …

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Modeling And Spatial Visualization Of Indoor Micro-Climates For Personalized Thermal Comfort, Berardo Matalucci, Joshua Draper, Anna Dyson Sep 2018

Modeling And Spatial Visualization Of Indoor Micro-Climates For Personalized Thermal Comfort, Berardo Matalucci, Joshua Draper, Anna Dyson

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The indoor thermal environment is conventionally considered homogeneous as anchored on a universal thermal comfort paradigm, although occupants’ experience is often diversified and influenced by several physio-cognitive factors. Personal comfort devices aim to enhance thermal comfort acceptance through localized heating and cooling while reducing overall energy consumption as temperature set-points of centralized HVAC systems can be relaxed. To further incentivize the adoption of distributed HVAC systems, it is critical to examine the energy benefits and the spatial characteristics of heterogeneous thermal environments. Here we developed a parametric framework based on building energy modeling coupled with a spatial visualization of micro-climatic …

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Bim And Game Engine Integration For Operational Data Monitoring In Buildings, Yunjie Xiong, Tanyel Bulbul, Georg Reichard Sep 2018

Bim And Game Engine Integration For Operational Data Monitoring In Buildings, Yunjie Xiong, Tanyel Bulbul, Georg Reichard

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Building Information Modelling (BIM), as a new approach to the digital representation of the whole building lifecycle, including design, construction, building operation and maintenance, increases the efficiency and productivity of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries. Because of complicated and comprehensive building information, BIM by itself is not able to provide an interactive visual environment for stakeholders and mobile access to the building information model is limited too. This paper aims to integrate BIM and 3D game engines to provide a real-time monitoring, mobile and interactive model. We’ve developed this building model as a serious game, capable of running …

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Greening Rooftops To Reduce Heat Islands: How Large Is Large Enough?, Jiachuan Yang, Elie Bou-Zeid Sep 2018

Greening Rooftops To Reduce Heat Islands: How Large Is Large Enough?, Jiachuan Yang, Elie Bou-Zeid

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Green roofs, with adequate water supply, have been proven as effective measures to reduce urban environmental temperature. The benefits of large-scale deployment of green roofs have been studied mainly through numerical simulations with unrealistic high penetration scenarios, where all rooftops across the entire metropolis is assumed to be retrofitted. In this study, the scale dependence of the cooling effect of green roofs is investigated with a coverage of 25% over buildings at local, city, or regional scales. We compared results at 6 major U.S. cities to assess the response of the scale dependence to geoclimatic conditions. High-resolution weather simulations reveal …

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