Conference Agenda

A BIM-based Business Process Model to support LEED® certification in retrofit projects.

Letizia D'Angelo^1,2,3, Magdalena Hajdukiewicz^1,2,3, Federico Seri^1,2,3, Marcus Keane^1,2,3

1: School of Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway; 2: Informatics Research Unit for Sustainable Engineering (IRUSE), National University of Ireland Galway; 3: Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway

Ecological and economic analysis of low-temperature district heating in typical residential areas

Jan Stock¹, Dominik Hering¹, André Xhonneux¹, Dirk Müller^1,2

1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Energy Systems Engineering (IEK-10), Jülich, Germany; 2: RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate, Aachen, Germany

Multidisciplinary BIM-model for an integrative design approach: study case of a car dealership building in Brussels

Nassim Jamali, Pedro Marques, Jolien De Clerck, Wim Boydens

Boydens Engineering, Belgium

Facility location problem in thermal network design

Tristan André Rey, Jessen Page

HES-SO, Switzerland

MILP based approach for the preliminary investigation of thermal networks in urban areas

Francesca Belfiore^1,2, Tristan Rey¹, Jessen Page¹, François Maréchal²

1: HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland; 2: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

MUSEGRIDS tool: energy performance calculation based on EPBD standards for EU and abroad

Gema Hernández Moral, Victor Iván Serna González, Francisco Javier Miguel, César Valmaseda Tranque

Fundacion CARTIF, Spain

Optimal operation of distributed energy systems - a game theory based approach

Sarah Henn, Sarah Welter, Tanja Osterhage, Dirk Müller

RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate, Germany

Impact of 2-zone recirculation on IAQ and energy performance of a demand controlled MEV system

Ivan Pollet¹, Bavo De Maré¹, Steven Delrue¹, Frederik Losfeld¹, Jelle Laverge², Samuel Caillou³

1: Research, Renson Ventilation, Waregem, Belgium; 2: Building Physics Research Group, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium; 3: Belgian Building Research Institute (BBRI), Limelette, Belgium

Global sensitivity analysis of a bottom-up building stock energy model

Sebastian Forthuber, Lukas Kranzl, Andreas Müller, Iná Maia

TU Wien, Austria

Heat zoning- and district heating simulation tool

Raf De Herdt, Joris Dedecker, Thomas Koch, Pedro Pattijn

Ingenium NV, Belgium

The impact of climate change on the reliable optimization for energy and economic refurbishment of a residential building in Italy

Amedeo Pezzi, Marco Manzan, Paolo Rosato

University of Trieste, Italy

Integrated design of refrigerant, heat pump and system components: Process intensification for optimized heat pump systems

Christian Vering, Sebastian Ostlender, Fabian Wuellhorst, Philipp Mehrfeld, Dirk Müller

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Modeling the impact of Climate Change on Future Heating Demand in Different Types of Buildings in the Belgian residential building stock

Essam Elnagar¹, Sébastien Doutreloup², Vincent Lemort¹

1: Thermodynamics Laboratory, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Université de Liège, Belgium; 2: Laboratory of Climatology, Department of Geography, UR SPHERES, University de Liège, Belgium

Climate change sensitive overheating assessment in dwellings: a case study in Belgium

Ramin Rahif¹, Abdulrahman Fani¹, Piotr Kosinski², Shady Attia¹

1: Sustainable Building Design Lab, Dept. UEE, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Université de Liege, Belgium; 2: Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Heweliusza Street 10, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland

Influence of the hydronic loop configuration on the energy performance of a CO2 heat pump for domestic hot water production in a multi-family building

Matteo Dongellini, Claudia Naldi, Gian Luca Morini

Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy

Methods for determining occupant behavioural models for energy-efficient retrofitting of 20th-century buildings

Antonella Mastrorilli¹, Roberta Zarcone², Chenafi Sabrina¹, Colonneau Téva¹

1: Laboratoire LACTH, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille, 2 Rue Verte, 59650 Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France; 2: Laboratoire GSA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, 14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

Human in the Loop: perceived based control as the key to enhance buildings’ performance

Davide Calì, Christian Ankerstjerne Thilker, Sebastian Arcos Specht, Jaume Palmer Real, Henrik Madsen, Bjarne W. Olesen

DTU, Denmark

A simulation workflow for exposure characterisation of daylit spaces based on occupant gaze orientation

Mandana Sarey Khanie¹, Mikkel Kofod Pedersen¹, Trine Illum¹, Rasmus Nielsen¹, Thorbjøn Asmussen²

1: Technical University of Denamrk, Denmark; 2: VELUX A/S, Hoersholm, Denmark

Quantifying household specific self-consumption of photovoltaic-based power generation in energy efficient buildings – a comprehensive parametric study to increase the reliability of energy consulting

André Müller^1,2, Johannes Koert², Patrick Wörner²

1: Institute for Housing and Environment, Germany; 2: Institute of Concrete and Masonry Structures, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Computational assessment of occupant-centric radiant cooling solutions

Helene Teufl, Ardeshir Mahdavi

Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

Occupant-centric control of transparent dynamic façades through an integrated co-simulation framework

Luigi Giovannini, Manuela Baracani, Fabio Favoino, Valentina Serra

Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy

Optimization workflow for the design of efficient shading control strategies

Abel Sepúlveda, Francesco De Luca, Jarek Kurnitski

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Tool Development for Automatic Simulation of central and decentral Heat Supply Scenarios and Application to a district in the City of Mainz, Germany (SimStadt 2.0 project)

Verena Weiler¹, Eric Duminil¹, Bodo Balbach², Bastian Schröter¹

1: University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, Germany; 2: Mainzer Stadtwerke AG

Design optioneering for the definition of technological solution of envelope using BIM

Frida Bazzocchi¹, Neri Banti¹, Carlo Biagini², Cecilia Ciacci¹, Vincenzo Di Naso¹

1: University of Florence, DICEA (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ), Italy; 2: University of Florence, DiDA (Department of Architecture), Italy

Uncertainty analysis of building energy analysis based on replicated Latin Hypercube sampling

Wei Tian¹, Miaorou Jin¹, Pieter de Wilde², Xing Fu³, Jiaxin Shi¹

1: Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China; 2: Plymouth University, UK; 3: Tianjin Architectural Design Institure, China

Quality check of openBIM input data for thermal building simulation based on mvdXML

Andreas Geiger, Karl-Heinz Häfele, Veit Hagenmeyer

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Cross-over analysis of building-stock modelling approaches for bottom-up engineering model

Usama Bin Perwez, Yohei Yamaguchi, Yoshiyuki Shimoda

Osaka University, Japan

Automatic IFC data enrichment with space geometries for Building Energy Performance Simulations

Georgios Nektarios Lilis, Kyriakos Katsigarakis, Dimitrios Rovas

University College London, London, UK

Projecting impacts of uncertain climate change on future energy demand

Sandhya Patidar, David Jenkins, Andrew Peacock

Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

Analysis of the energy performance of a new ventilated brick wall: behaviour of real scale prototype under different ventilation configuration and weather conditions

Costanza Vittoria Fiorini¹, Domenico Palladino², Cinzia Buratti³

1: CIRIAF, University of Perugia, Via G. Duranti 63, 06125 Perugia, Italy; 2: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development of Engineering, Via Anguillarese, 301, 00123 Rome, Italy; 3: Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Via G.Duranti 67, 06125 Perugia, Italy

Development of an urban sewage state prediction model and case studies for the evaluation of sewage heat utilization potential

Weian Chen¹, Shohei Miyata², Yasunori Akashi²

1: National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2: University of Tokyo, Japan

Investigating the control strategies for Breathing Walls during summer: a dynamic simulation study

Andrea Alongi, Adriana Angelotti, Livio Mazzarella

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

An evaluation of the proposed framework to introduce a smart readiness indicator for buildings

Vasiliki Varsami, Esfand Burman

Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom

Automatic generation of second level space boundary geometry from IFC models

Eric Fichter, Veronika Richter, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck

Institute of Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building (E3D), RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Geometrical interoperability of 3D CityGML building models for urban energy use cases

Avichal Malhotra¹, Yue Pan², Jérôme Frisch¹, Christoph van Treeck¹

1: Institute of Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building (E3D), RWTH Aachen University, Germany; 2: Nesseler Grünzig Bau Gmbh, Germany

Interoperability between BIM and building energy modelling – a case study

Francesco Asdrubali¹, Manuel Manzo², Gianluca Grazieschi³

1: University of Roma Tre, Italy; 2: University of Roma Tre, Italy; 3: University of Roma Tre, Italy

Texture mapping and IFC material retrievement for virtual reality applications

Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Alexandre Dennis Stoll, Laurent Deschamps

Building2050 group, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Fribourg, Switzerland

Proposed integration of utilities in the Energy ADE 2.0

Maximilian Schildt, Christian Behm, Avichal Malhotra, Sebastian Weck-Ponten, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck

Institute of Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building (E3D), RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Simulation support for the design of ventilated windows: a case study

Shiva Najaf Khosravi, Ardeshir Mahdavi

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Daylighting simulation using spectral ray tracing

Antony Escudie¹, Chloé Therreau¹, Tanguy Timmermans², Louis Dellieu², Grégoire Besse¹

1: Eclat Digital; 2: AGC Glass Europe

Evaluating daylighting performance metrics in LEED v4 for commercial office buildings: What criteria is missing to enhance the visual performance and comfort of occupants?

Riwayat Katia, Nourhan Elsayed, Tarek Rakha

Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America

Designing a Solar Shading Solution parametrically using the direct sun and the view to the outside for a building in Vietnam

Pedro Marques, Chinh Trieu, Wim Boydens

Studiebureau Boydens, Belgium

Facades, roofs and solar parking yield estimation at Utrecht science park

Tayzer Damasceno de Oliveira^1,2,3, Luis Fialho², Atse Louwen^3,4, Wilfried G.J.H.M. van Sark³

1: Accenture, Lisboa, Portugal; 2: University of Évora, Évora, Portugal; 3: Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 4: Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy

Heat and moisture transport through a living wall system designated for greywater treatment

Hayder Alsaad, Conrad Voelker

Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

A convolutional neural network for the hygrothermal assessment of timber frame walls

Astrid Tijskens, Staf Roels

KU Leuven, Belgium

Besos: a python library that links energyplus with energy hub, optimization and machine learning tools.

Theodor Victor Christiaanse^1,2, Paul Westermann^1,2, Will Beckett^1,2, Gaelle Faure^1,2, Ralph Evins^1,2

1: Energy in Cities group, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, BritishColumbia, Canada; 2: Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Data-driven black box model of building dynamics

Sophie Bernard^1,2, Valery Ann Jacobs¹, Bert Belmans^1,3, Arjen Mentens¹, Filip Descamps^1,4, John Lataire¹

1: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 2: Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 3: Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium; 4: Daidalos Peutz, Belgium

Summer passive strategies assessment based on calibrated building model using on site measurement data

Obaidullah Yaqubi^1,2,3, Auline Rodler^1,2, Sihem Guernouti^1,2,3, Marjorie Musy^1,2,3

1: Equipe de recherche BPE, Cerma Ouest, Nantes, France; 2: Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques de la Ville (IRSTV) , Nantes, France; 3: CNRS UMR 6183, GeM, Université de Nantes, France

A low-order semi-physical borefield model for optimal control applications

Iago Cupeiro Figueroa¹, Lieve Helsen^1,2

1: KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: Energyville, Belgium

An Open-AI gym environment for the Building Optimization Testing (BOPTEST) framework

Javier Arroyo^1,2,3, Carlo Manna^2,3, Fred Spiessens^2,3, Lieve Helsen^1,2

1: Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium; 2: EnergyVille, Thor Park, Waterschei, Belgium; 3: Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium

Open and Reproducible Use Cases for Energy (ORUCE) methodology in systems design and operation: a dwelling photovoltaic self-consumption example.

Sacha Hodencq, Benoit Delinchant, Frederic Wurtz

Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP*, G2Elab, 38000 Grenoble, France

Is your building automation and control system properly designed and installed?

Muhyiddine Jradi

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Adapting French buildings to future climate: Passive design optimisation

Anaïs Machard^1,2, Christian Inard¹, Jean-Marie Alessandrini², Charles Pelé², Jacques Ribéron³

1: Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Ingénieur pour l’Environnement (LASIE, UMR CNRMS 7356), La Rochelle Université, 23 Avenue Albert Einstein, 17000 La Rochelle, France; 2: Département Energie et Environnement, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB), 84 Avenue Jean Jaurès, Champs-sur-Marne, 77447 Marne-la-Vallée CEDEX 2, France; 3: Département Santé et Confort, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB), 84 Avenue Jean Jaurès, Champs-sur-Marne, 77447 Marne-la-Vallée CEDEX 2, France;

Assessing the relevance of updated climate files in the simulation of residential buildings located in semi-arid regions

Emanuela Giancola, María Nuria Sánchez, Helena López, Jose Antonio Ferrer, María José Jiménez, Silvia Soutullo

Energy efficiency in buildings research unit, CIEMAT, Spain

Climate change impact on the future performance of Nearly Zero Energy buildings: A case study base analysis

Mamak Pourabdollahtootkaboni, Giovanna De Luca, Ilaria Ballarini, Vincenzo Corrado

Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

The impact of a high-end climate change scenario on the energy consumption of a Flemish office building

Delphine Ramon, Karen Allacker

Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven, Belgium

Development of a new decision tool for Sustainable COOLing Systems (CORNET SCOOLS)

Jeroen Van der Veken¹, Margot De Pauw²

1: BBRI, Belgium; 2: KCE Thomas More, Belgium

Mapping the gap in user-related building performance simulation models

Ardeshir Mahdavi, Veselina Bochukova, Christiane Berger

TU Wien, Austria

The impact of occupancy prediction accuracy on the performance of model predictive control (MPC) in buildings

Tao Yang, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye, Krzysztof Arendt, Konstantin Filonenko, Jonathan Dallaire, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Christian Veje

Center for Energy Informatics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Consequences-based graphical model for contextualized occupants’ activities estimation in connected buildings

Huynh Phan¹, Thomas Recht¹, Laurent Mora¹, Stéphane Ploix²

1: I2M Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Bordeaux INP, F-33400 Talence, France; 2: G-SCOP, Grenoble Institute of Technology, UMR CNRS 5272, 46 Avenue Felix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble Cedex 1, France

Multi-Agent based simulation of human activity for building and urban scale assessment of residential load curves and energy use

Mathieu Schumann^1,5, Quentin Reynaud², Nicolas Sabouret³, François Sempé⁶, Benoit Charrier^1,5, Jérémy Albouys^1,3,4,5, Yvon Haradji¹, Christian Inard^4,5

1: EDF R&D, Palaiseau, France; 2: QRCI, Clermont-Ferrand, France; 3: LIMSI-CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France; 4: LaSIE, CNRS, La Rochelle Université, La Rochelle, France; 5: 4evLab, EDF R&D, CNRS, LaSIE, La Rochelle Université, La Rochelle, France; 6: FSCI, Paris, France

The formulation of a reference load curve to measure energy flexibility

Muhammad Salman Shahid¹, Benoît Delinchant¹, Béatrice Roussillon², Frédéric Wurtz¹, Daniel Llerena²

1: G2Elab, 21 Rue des Martyrs, CS 90624, 38031 Grenoble CEDEX 1, France; 2: GAEL, 1241 Rue des Résidences, 38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

Identifying grey-box models from archetypes of apartment block buildings

Marius Eide Bagle¹, Philip Maree², Harald Taxt Walnum¹, Igor Sartori¹

1: SINTEF Community, Norway; 2: SINTEF Digital, Norway

Integrating thermal, energy, lighting, and acoustics in building design approach: Lesson learned from students assignments

Rizki A. Mangkuto, Anugrah Sabdono Sudarsono, R.S. Joko Sarwono

Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

Statistical methodologies for verification of building energy performance simulation

Amin Nouri, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck

Institute of Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building (E3D), RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Easy-to-implement simulation strategies for annual glare risk assessment based on the European Daylighting Standard

Bruno Bueno¹, Abel Sepúlveda², Christoph Maurer³, Simon Wacker⁴, Taoning Wang⁵, Tilmann E. Kuhn⁶, Helen Rose Wilson⁷

1: Fraunhofer ISE, Germany; 2: Taltech, Estonia; 3: Fraunhofer ISE, Germany; 4: Fraunhofer ISE, Germany; 5: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LBNL, Berkeley CA, USA; 6: Fraunhofer ISE, Germany; 7: Fraunhofer ISE, Germany

A machine-learning framework for daylight and visual comfort assessment in early design stages

Hanieh Nourkojouri¹, Zahra Sadat Zomorodian¹, Mohammad Tahsildoost¹, Zohreh Shaghaghian²

1: Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, Islamic Republic of; 2: Texas A&M University, College Station, United States

Reducing heat island effect: a mathematical model of green roof design

Jing Hong¹, Dennis Michael Utzinger²

1: Rivion; 2: University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee

Semantic web ontologies for buildings objects and their performance data

Eleanna Panagoulia, Zachary Lancaster, Tarek Rakha

Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America

A machine-learning framework for acoustic design assessment in early design stages

Reyhane Abarghooie¹, ZahraSadat Zomorodian¹, Mohammad Tahsildoost¹, Zohreh Shaghaghian²

1: Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran; 2: Texas A&M University, College Station, United States

A Python library for Radiance matrix-based simulation control and EnergyPlus integration

Taoning Wang¹, Greg Ward², Eleanor S. Lee¹

1: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America; 2: Anyhere Software

Functional mock-up unit based generic threat injection framework for energy efficient and resilient buildings

Yangyang Fu, Xing Lu, Zheng O'Neill

Texas A$M University, United States of America

Real-time light simulation methodology for expedited comparison and optimization studies through agent-based photon modeling

Vishal Vaidhyanathan, Jichen Wang

Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

Radiant spectral energy for simulation in the built environment

Joseph Del Rocco, Joseph T. Kider Jr.

University of Central Florida, School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training

Short-term forecasting of building energy consumption with deep generative learning

Yichuan X. Ma

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Economic and emission reduction potential of renewable based energy systems in an apartment building in cold climatic conditions

Hassam ur Rehman, Ala Hasan, Francesco Reda

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

Integration of a flexible tensile material in a second skin façade system: a passive method to enhance the energy performances of the Italian building scenario

Giovanni Ciampi, Yorgos Spanodimitriou, Michelangelo Scorpio, Antonio Rosato, Sergio Sibilio

Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Study of optimal control strategies for an energy production system using thermal mass of buildings

Charbel Salameh^1,2, Bruno Peuportier², Patrick Schalbart²

1: Accenta; 2: Centre Efficacité énergétique des Systèmes Mines Paristech

Effect of introducing hybrid power system for housing

Saori Nakao¹, Yasuyuki Shiraishi¹, Yusuke Shigematsu²

1: The University of Kitakyushu, Japan; 2: Saibugas Co., Ltd., Japan

Activation of the building thermal mass to store PV surplus energy

Arno Dentel, Christina Betzold

Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, Germany

Impact of implementing air-conditioning systems on the school building stock in Brazil considering climate change effects: a bottom-up benchmarking

Matheus Soares Geraldi, Mateus Vinicius Bavaresco, Veronica Gnecco, Enedir Ghisi, Michele Fossati

Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Borehole latent energy storage system integrated with solar thermal collectors and heat pumps

Parham Eslami Nejad, Arash Bastani, Alain Nguyen, Etienne Saloux

CanmetENERGY, NRCan, Canada

Simulation-based analysis of the load-shifting potential of Heat Pumps in Multi-Family Houses using co-simulation

Daniel Schmidt, Sabine Hoffmann

TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

Operational control of earth-to-air heat exchanger using reinforcement learning

Kento Tomoda¹, Yasuyuki Shiraishi¹, Dirk Saelens^2,3

1: The University of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan; 2: KU Leuven, Department of Civil Engineering, Building Physics & Sustainable Design Section, Leuven, Belgium; 3: EnergyVille, Genk, Belgium

Distribution of potential savings from urban-scale energy modeling of a utility

Brett Bass¹, Joshua New²

1: The University of Tennessee; 2: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dynamic simulation of a radiant ceiling panel incorporating PCMs for building cooling and heating applications

Andres Gallardo, Umberto Berardi

Ryerson University, Canada

The energy master planning process for districts

Matthias Haase

ZHAW, Switzerland

Case study of an NZEB (renovation) with 7 years measurement data – what can a designer learn from it?

Matthias Haase

ZHAW, Switzerland

Smart ventilation control to minimize the infection risk with COVID-19 in office buildings

Zhihong Pang¹, Pingfan Hu^2,3, Xing Lu¹, Qingsheng Wang^2,3, Zheng O'Neill¹

1: J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA; 2: Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA; 3: Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Numerical investigation of a novel diffuse wall ventilation: thermal comfort and cross-infection control effectiveness

Chen Zhang, Gaute Larsen Tveit, Truls Ramstad, Peter V. Nielsen, Rasmus Lund Jensen

Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark

Developing thermal comfort maps for naturally ventilated spaces

Vardan Soi¹, Swati Puchalapalli², Rashmin M. Damle³

1: Masters in Technology, Building Energy Performance (MTech BEP), CEPT University; 2: Terraviridis; 3: CEPT University

Multi-objective optimisation of Indian Jaali fenestration system for visual, thermal and perceptual performance using computational methods

Afshan Rehman, Amulya Surapaneni

Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

Fine-grained measurement of the indoor built environment with robotic vacuum cleaners

Joseph McLaughlin¹, Michal Young¹, Siobhan Rockcastle^1,2

1: University of Oregon, United States of America; 2: Baker Lighting Lab

Investigating the relationship between interpretability and performance for optimal rule-based control

Eikichi Ono^1,2, Kuniaki Mihara², Takamasa Hasama², Yuichi Takemasa², Bertrand Lasternas¹, Adrian Chong¹

1: National University of Singapore, Singapore; 2: Kajima Technical Research Institute Singapore, Singapore

Performance of aerogels as thermal insulation materials for buildings in tropical climates

Aminu Wali Bashir, Eliane Hayashi Suzuki, Joao Roberto Diego Petreche, Brenda Chaves Coelho Leite

Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

A combined CFD-based genetic algorithm and human body thermoregulation model for designing the indoor thermal environment

Wei Liu¹, Yu Xue², Dayi Lai³

1: Division of Sustainable Buildings, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvägen 23, Stockholm, 100 44, Sweden; 2: School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; 3: Department of Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Simulation of COVID-19 ultraviolet disinfection using coupled ray tracing and CFD

Nathaniel Jones¹, Paul Lynch², Joseph Hewlings¹, Justin Boyd², Ryan Seffinger¹, Dan Lister², Renee Thomas¹

1: Arup, United States of America; 2: Arup, United Kingdom

Radiation control optimization for dynamic glazing in building façades in subtropical climate

Eliane Hayashi Suzuki, Racine Tadeu Araujo Prado, Brenda Chaves Coelho Leite

Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Influence of interventions against spread of COVID-19 on noise levels in student restaurant

Lukáš Zelem¹, Vojtech Chmelík², Monika Rychtáriková³

1: STU Bratislava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Architecture; 2: STU Bratislava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Architecture; 3: KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture,

Buoyancy-driven ventilation in a real operational building: Uncertainty quantification of the discharge coefficient

Lup Wai Chew, Chen Chen, Catherine Gorlé

Stanford University, United States of America

Impact of landscaping elements on pedestrian wind simulations using OpenFOAM

Rubina Ramponi¹, Viet Le², Jake Haskell³, Adam Brooks²

1: Arup, Dublin, Ireland; 2: Arup, New York, United States of America; 3: Arup, Berlin, Germany

Full-scale validation of natural ventilation models in Stanford’s Y2E2 building

Chen Chen, Catherine Gorlé

Stanford University, United States of America

Whole-building energy simulation analysis and optimization of residential building equipped with air-duct system in three different regions

Arash Zarmehr, Joseph T. Kider .Jr

Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, United States of America

Development of a digital twin of the temperature distribution in datacenters

Eric Terry

Actiflow

Characterised sun path patches as a way to design better shading

Andrew Corney¹, Vladimir Bajic²

1: Trimble SketchUp, United Kingdom; 2: Trimble SketchUp, USA

Modelling solar shadings with metallic slats for optimal daylighting. What parameters should we focus on?

Bertrand Deroisy¹, Marshal Maskarenj², Sergio Altomonte²

1: Belgian Building Research Institute, Brussels, Belgium; 2: Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

A spectral model for longwave radiant heat transfer: influence of new generation polymers in BES

Edouard Walther, Antoine Hubert

AREP L'hypercube, France

Modelling naturally ventilated double skin facade in Modelica

Alessandro Dama¹, Jaime Varas del Ser¹, Ettore Zanetti¹, Francesco Casella¹, Olena Kalyanova Larsen²

1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Aalborg University, Denmark

Open-source photovoltaic model for early building planning processes: Modeling, application and validation

Laura Maier¹, Michael Kratz^1,2, Christian Vering¹, Philipp Mehrfeld¹, Dirk Müller¹

1: RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate, Aachen, Germany; 2: currently studying at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

The influence of uncertainties in grid electricity primary energy conversion factors on multi-criteria trade-off solutions in façade design optimisation

Samuel Bruno de Vries, Roel C.G.M. Loonen, Jan L.M. Hensen

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The

Analysis of HVAC retrofit layouts including solar cooling system with adsorption heat pump - Modelling, dynamic simulation and multi-criteria evaluation

Paola Colombo, Giulia Filippini, Rossano Scoccia, Marcello Aprile, Mario Motta

Department of energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Performance comparison of static and adjustable photovoltaic panels

Dawid Wolosiuk, Matthias Schuss, Ardeshir Mahdavi

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

The path towards a zero fossil fuel Building

Frederik Maertens, Wim Boydens

boydens engineering, Belgium

Retrofit of a 1970’s apartment building into energy plus, results of a prototype apartment

Eelke P. Bontekoe¹, Wilfried G.J.H.M. van Sark¹, Liza Looijen², Paul Das³, Joris van den Heiligenberg³, Arno F. Peekel⁴

1: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 2: Hogeschool Utrecht, The Netherlands; 3: Bos Installatiewerken, The Netherlands; 4: Utrecht Sustainability Institute (USI), The Netherlands

Estimation of the thermal properties using modal identification method and optimal experiment design applied to historical building walls

Benjamin Kadoch¹, Julien Berger²

1: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IUSTI UMR 7343, 13453, Marseille, France; 2: Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Ingénieur pour l’Environnement (LaSIE), UMR 7356 CNRS, La Rochelle Université, CNRS, 17000, La Rochelle, France

Living lab ‘De Schipjes’: a zero-fossil-fuel energy concept in the historic city center of Bruges

Jelger Jansen^1,2, Frederik Maertens³, Wim Boydens^3,4, Lieve Helsen^1,2

1: KU Leuven, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Celestijnenlaan 300 box 2421, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; 2: EnergyVille, Thor Park 8320, 3600 Genk, Belgium; 3: boydens engineering, Kooidam 6, 8200 Bruges, Belgium; 4: Ghent University, Department of Architecture and Urban planning, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Simulation-based Optimization of thermal Comfort in a heritage Manor House

Torsten Schwan, Rene Unger

EA Systems Dresden GmbH, Germany

A hybrid measurement-simulation approach to determine the reflectance map of a historic tapestry

John Mardaljevic¹, Eleonora Brembilla², Stephen Cannon-Brookes³, Nigel Blades⁴

1: Loughborough University, United Kingdom; 2: TU Delft, Netherlands; 3: UCL, United Kingdom; 4: National Trust, United Kingdom

The impact of light distribution and furniture layout on meeting light exposure objectives in an office - a simulation case study

Megan Danell¹, Steffen Hartmeyer¹, Lisa Petterson², Robert Davis³, Marilyne Andersen¹, Siobhan Rockcastle⁴

1: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 2: SRG Partnership, Portland, OR United States of America; 3: Pacific Northwest National Lab, Portland, OR, United States of America; 4: University of Oregon, Eugene, OR United States of America

Evaluating the use of photobiology-driven alertness and health measures for circadian lighting design

Athina Ji-Hae Alight, J. Alstan Jakubiec

University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Toronto, Canada

Integrated analysis of daylight and solar access building requirements and performance in urban environments in Estonia

Francesco De Luca, Abel Sepúlveda

Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Machine learning techniques for the daylight and electric lighting performance predictions

Chantal Basurto, Oliver Paul, Jérôme H. Kämpf

Idiap Research Institute, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland

Luminance distributions in consultancy: Simulations or measurements?

Thijs Willem Kruisselbrink

Peutz BV, Netherlands, The

Design and test of reduced grey-box models adapted to office buildings

Thibault Péan, Soledad Ibañez Iralde, Jordi Pascual, Jaume Salom

IREC Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Spain

Evaluation of existing infiltration models used in building energy simulation

Yeonjin Bae¹, Jaewan Joe², Seungjae Lee¹, Piljae Im¹, Lisa C. Ng³

1: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States; 2: Inha University, South Korea; 3: National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States

Exploring the possibility of calibrating a whole-building model from the short-term monitoring of selected reference rooms

Ilaria Pittana¹, Riccardo Albertin², Alessandro Prada³, Francesca Cappelletti⁴, Andrea Gasparella²

1: Dep. of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Italy; 2: Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; 3: Dep. of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy; 4: Dep. of Architecture and Arts Iuav University of Venice, Italy

A novel multi-domain model for thermal comfort which includes building indoor CO2 concentrations

Sarah Crosby¹, Adam Rysanek²

1: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 2: School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

A gap-filling method for room temperature data based on autoencoder neural networks

Antonio Liguori¹, Romana Markovic², Jérôme Frisch¹, Andreas Wagner², Francesco Causone³, Christoph van Treeck¹

1: E3D - Institute of Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building, RWTH Aachen University, Mathieustr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany; 2: Building Science Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Englerstr. 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany; 3: Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Via Lambruschini 4, 20156 Milano, Italy

A synthetic population model for representing occupant behaviors in buildings

Handi Chandra Putra, Tianzhen Hong

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of America

How do buildings adapt to changing occupancy? A natural experiment

Brodie W. Hobson¹, Tareq Abuimara¹, H. Burak Gunay¹, Guy R. Newsham²

1: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University; 2: Construction Research Centre, National Research Council Canada

Investigating thermostat setpoint preferences in Canadian households

Karthik Panchabikesan¹, Mohamed Ouf¹, Ursula Eicker¹, Guy Newsham², Heather Knudsen²

1: Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada; 2: Construction Research Centre, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Use of district energy modelling and stakeholder engagement in developing decarbonisation strategies

Susan Pierce^1,2, Lorenzo De Donatis², Fabiano Pallonetto³, Giovanni Tardioli²

1: University College Dublin; 2: Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd.; 3: IVI Institute - Maynooth University

Investigating the correlation dynamism between WiFi connection counts and camera-based occupancy counts

Nastaran Alishahi, Mohamed M. Ouf, Mazdak Nik-Bakht

Concordia University

Modelica-json: Transforming energy models to digitize the control delivery process

Michael Wetter¹, Jianjun Hu¹, Anand Prakash¹, Paul Ehrlich², Gabe Fierro³, Milica Grahovac¹, Marco Pritoni¹, Lisa Rivalin⁴, Dave Robin⁵

1: Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA; 2: Building Intelligence Group, Portland, OR; 3: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; 4: Facebook, Menlo Park, CA; 5: BSC Softworks, Atlanta, GA

Effect of selected passive cooling measures on overheating in residential buildings in Canada

Michal Bartko, Abdelaziz Laouadi, Michael Lacasse

National Research Council, Canada

District heating: a practical solution for reducing fossil fuel dependency in Quebec’s remote communities

Annie Pike, Michael Kummert

Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

Quantifying the effect of multiple demand response actions on electricity demand and building services via surrogate modeling

Na Luo, Jared Langevin, Handi Chandra Putra

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of America

Optimizing price-informed operation of a battery storage system in an office building

Xuechen Lei, Ellen Franconi, Yunyang Ye

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America