Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Thursday, 02/Sept/2021 | |||||||||
| 8:30 - 10:00 |
Session T1.1: Practice and industry related case studies Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 1 Chair: Mathias Bouquerel Chair : Jeroen Van der Veken Assessing building envelope thermal performance using in-situ measurements 1: BBRI, Belgium; 2: KULeuven, Belgium 8:48 - 9:06 Simulating gentle failure as an approach to building resiliency 1: Loisos + Ubbelohde, Alameda CA USA; 2: University of California, Berkeley CA USA 9:06 - 9:24 Energetic self-sufficiency of a greenhouse residence: a dynamic techno-financial feasibility study 1: University of Antwerp, Belgium; 2: VITO, unit Smart Energy and Built Environment, Belgium 9:24 - 9:42 Energy prediction under changed demand conditions: robust machine learning models and input feature combinations 1: Graz University of Technology, Austria; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark; 3: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA 9:42 - 10:00 Quantification of the cost of oversizing cooling installations in a case study under construction in Vietnam Studiebureau Boydens, Belgium |
Session T1.2: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 2 Chair: Thierry Duforestel Chair : Filip Jorissen Spatial distribution of thermal comfort: a case study in Paris' station 1: AREP L'hypercube, France; 2: LASIE Université de La Rochelle, France 8:48 - 9:06 Spectral and biological simulation methods for the design of healthy circadian lighting University of Toronto, Canada 9:06 - 9:24 An optimization of the switching temperature for an energy system with a double-source heat pump Department of Industrial Engineering - Applied Physics Section, University of Padova, Italy 9:24 - 9:42 Wind-driven air flow modelling in Modelica: verification and implementation in the IDEAS library 1: Ghent University, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning , Belgium; 2: University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Belgium; 3: FWO, Research Foundation Flanders; 4: EnergyVille, Thor Park, Waterschei, Belgium 9:42 - 10:00 Evaluation of energy and indoor environmental performance of mechanical ventilation systems under different climatic conditions 1: International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical 6 University of Denmark, Nils Koppels Allé, Building 402, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; 2: Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe BV, 17 Firth Road (AC3), Houstoun Industrial Estate, Livingston, West Lothian EH54 5DJ |
Session T1.3: Buildings paving the way for the energy transition Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 3 Chair: Wilfried GJHM van Sark Chair : Javier Arroyo PCM-enhanced building envelope for improved thermal comfort and energy efficiency in danish buildings University of Southern Denmark, Denmark 8:48 - 9:06 Comparison of data-driven model-based and model-free control approaches for unlocking building energy flexibility 1: School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland; 3: Energy Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland 9:06 - 9:24 Time-based economic hierarchical model predictive control of all-electric energy systems in non-residential buildings RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate Large-scale multicriteria sorting for the integration of photovoltaic systems in the urban environment 1: University Savoie Mont Blanc, LOCIE/FRESBE, F- 74944 Annecy-le-Vieux, France; 2: Haute école du paysage d’ingénierie et d’architecture de Genève (hepia), Institute for Landscaping Architecture Construction and Territory (inPACT), University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland |
Session T1.4: Improving indoor environmental quality Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 4 Chair: Dariusz Heim Chair : Hayder Alsaad Development of a 3D and high resolution dynamic thermal model of a room with sun patch evolution for thermal comfort applications 1: Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, CNRS, CETHIL, UMR5008, 69621 Villeurbanne, France; 2: Univ Lyon, UCBL, INSA Lyon, CNRS, CETHIL, UMR5008, 69622 Villeurbanne, France 8:48 - 9:06 Impact of building thermal inertia in different climates using energy dynamic simulation through a simplified description model 1: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 2: University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom 9:06 - 9:24 Bedroom environmental discomforts, occupant behaviors, and sleep quality based on an online survey 1: Research group Building Physics, Construction and Climate Control, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, Belgium; 2: International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark; 3: Department of Architecture, Waseda University; 4: School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore 9:24 - 9:42 Phase-change materials selection: numerical study based on design of experiments. Université catholique de Louvain, UCLouvain, Belgium 9:42 - 10:00 Study of the influence of temperature on the moisture buffering capacity of bio-based concretes 1: University of Picardie Jules Verne, France; 2: Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, France; 3: University of Science and Technology – the University of Danang, Viet Nam |
Session T1.5: Climate change and bioclimatic design Location: Crowne Plaza - De Burgh Room Chair: Laura Carnieletto Chair : Silke Verbruggen An integrated approach to quantify the potential local climate mitigation of a district energy network compared to individual air conditioning systems. 1: University of La Rochelle; 2: CSTB Sophia-Antipolis 8:48 - 9:06 Building Performance Simulation to support tree planting for cooling need reduction: a machine learning approach 1: Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile; 2: Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; 3: University of Catania, Italy 9:06 - 9:24 Development and analysis of a metric to manage overheating risks in residential energy codes Natural Resources Canada, Canada |
Session T1.6: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Crowne Plaza - Arnulf Room Chair: Jérôme Le Dréau Chair : Lien De Backer Faster computation of g-functions used for modeling of ground heat exchangers Oklahoma State University, United States of America 8:48 - 9:06 Evaluating the impact of neighbouring structures on a high-rise residential block’s performance University of Nottingham, United Kingdom 9:06 - 9:24 Where HVAC models fail - a conceptual framework for extending effective HVAC modelling into early concept design of net zero buildings University of Victoria, Canada |
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Coffee Break Location: Belfry |
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Session T2.1: Practice and industry related case studies Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 1 Chair: Eline Himpe Chair : Iago Cupeiro Developing a simplified methodology for simulating energy performance of buildings with thermally activated building systems Ghent university, Belgium 10:48 - 11:06 Analysis of the thermal performance of a ground water storage cell with helical shaped pipe for ground source heat pumps 1: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; 2: Architecture Department, University of Ferrara, Italy 11:06 - 11:24 Borehole thermal energy storage integration: a case study 1: Hysopt NV, Antwerp, Belgium; 2: Noven NV, Ghent, Belgium; 3: EMIB research group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 11:24 - 11:42 Towards a new simulation based hybridGEOTABS design methodology! Boydens Engineering, Belgium |
Session T2.2: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 2 Chair: Frank De Troyer Chair : Nils Artiges Investigation of the temperature-dependent conductivity towards improving energy performance of building Lodz University of Technology, Poland 10:48 - 11:06 3D drone-based time-lapse thermography: a case study of roof vulnerability characterization using photogrammetry and performance simulation implications 1: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2: University of Plymouth, United Kingdom 11:06 - 11:24 Dynamic modelling and comparison between transient step response of capacitive hygrometers and chilled mirrors Politecnico di Milano, Italy 11:24 - 11:42 Improving the Reliability of theoretical approaches for hygrothermal characterization and modeling of building envelopes 1: EDF R&D, TREE EDF Lab Les Renardières, 77818 Moret-sur-Loing, France; 2: LaSIE UMR 7356, CNRS, La Rochelle Université, Avenue Michel Crépeau, 17042 La Ro- chelle Cedex 1, France; 3: 4ev Lab CNRS, Université de La Rochelle, Electricité de France EDF, Avenue Michel Cré- peau, 17042 La Rochelle Cedex 1, France |
Session T2.3: Buildings paving the way for the energy transition Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 3 Chair: Alessia Arteconi Chair : Valentin Gavan Thermal inertia analysis of family house heating system: towards higher energy flexibility CTU in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Republic 10:48 - 11:06 Comparing Machine Learning based Methods to standard Regression Methods for MPC on a virtual Testbed 1: Urban Energy Systems Laboratory, Empa, Switzerland; 2: Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 11:06 - 11:24 Advanced Control of Dynamic Facades and HVAC with Reinforcement Learning based on standardized co-Simulation 1: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; 2: University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien 11:24 - 11:42 Analysis of the impact of predictive models on the quality of the Model Predictive Control for an experimental building 1: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; 2: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; 3: Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia; 4: Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark |
Session T2.4: Improving indoor environmental quality Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 4 Chair: Catherine Gorle Chair : Massimo Palme Missing data imputation for diagnostic purposes in building system : application to an office setting G-SCOP laboratory, University of Grenoble Alpes,France 10:48 - 11:06 Approaches toward multi-aspect indoor-environmental performance indicators Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology, TU Wien 11:06 - 11:24 Comparison of overheating risk in nearly zero energy dwelling based on three different overheating calculation methods 1: Univeristé de Liège, Belgium; 2: Renowatt, Liege, Belgium 11:24 - 11:42 Influence of zoned use and occupancy on Daylight Autonomy in high-rise mass housing in Colombia Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia 11:42 - 12:00 Assessing the current and future risk of overheating in London’s care homes: The effect of passive ventilation 1: University College London, United Kingdom; 2: Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom; 3: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom |
Session T2.5: Climate change and bioclimatic design Location: Crowne Plaza - De Burgh Room Chair: Francesco De Luca Chair : Georgios Kyriakodis A modeling framework for building-integrated biotic Carbon Sequestration (CS) techniques: Towards mitigating climate change Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America 10:48 - 11:06 Generating future-urban weather files for building performance simulations: case studies in London Brunel University London, United Kingdom 11:06 - 11:24 A bootstrap method to investigate the variability of overheating risk against the future climate uncertainty in dwellings Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK |
Session T2.6: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Crowne Plaza - Arnulf Room Chair: Jeffrey Spitler Chair : Ricardo Forgiarini Rupp Dimensionality reduction for calibration of dynamic building simulation models AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria 10:48 - 11:06 Reducing the energy performance gap on building stock level using actual energy data Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 11:06 - 11:24 Using a large floorplan dataset to study the impact of simulation zoning simplifications AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria |
Session T2.7 (Online Track): Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Virtual Meeting Room 1 Chair: Paul Strachan Natural ventilation simulation for application to environmental planning in early design stage Shimizu Corpration, Japan 10:48 - 11:06 Control logic and parameters in a VAV system considering unevenly distributed internal loads and damper characteristics 1: Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: Taisei Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; 3: Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan; 4: Building Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan 11:06 - 11:24 Development of test procedure for the evaluation of building energy simulation tools - phase III addition of subsystem test toward systematic diagnostics for HVAC system simulation- 1: Shimizu Corporation, Japan; 2: National University of Singapore, Singapore; 3: Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University, Japan; 4: Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., Japan; 5: Kogakuin University, Japan; 6: SHINRYO CORPORATION, Japan; 7: Nikken Sekkei Ltd., Japan; 8: Nihon Sekkei, Inc., Japan 11:24 - 11:42 Transfer learning based inverse modeling to identify unknown building properties Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) 11:42 - 12:00 Meta-modelling of operation schedules of commercial buildings based on measured electricity demand data Osaka University, Japan |
Session T2.8 (Online Track): Buildings paving the way for the energy transition Location: Virtual Meeting Room 2 Chair: Vincenzo Corrado Further development and validation of the "PROFet" energy demand load profiles estimator SINTEF AS, Norway 10:48 - 11:06 The efforts towards development of an energy efficiency upgrade platform arbnco Ltd., United Kingdom 11:06 - 11:24 Alternative modelling approaches to energy performance certificates Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom 11:24 - 11:42 Predicting the effects of building energy conservation policies: Modeling decision-making of building owners and tenants to maximize their own profits 1: Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan; 2: Obayashi Corporation 11:42 - 12:00 Urban climate simulation: coupling of mesoscale meteorological model with building-resolved neighborhood CFD simulation 1: ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Université de Sherbrooke, Canada |
Session T2.9 (Online Track): Practice and industry related case studies Location: Virtual Meeting Room 3 Case study of evaporative cooling technologies for Australian office buildings 1: DeltaQ Consulting Service Pty Ltd, Australia; 2: Enerefficiency Pty Ltd, Australia; 3: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia 10:48 - 11:06 Optimization of electric lighting in a hospital emergency room - A case study Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia 11:06 - 11:24 Reallocation of heating consumption and costs based on decoupling of household heat metering data 1: Beijing University of Technology, China, People's Republic of; 2: Tianjin Thermal Power Co., Ltd., Tianjin, China 11:24 - 11:42 Feasibility study for combined mist evaporation cooling with carbon dioxide enrichment for greenhouse cultivation 1: Osaka City University, Japan; 2: Research Institute of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, Osaka Prefecture; 3: Toyohashi Univeristy of Technology 11:42 - 12:00 Seasonal performance and potential of heat pumps in Catalonia IREC Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Spain |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch Location: Belfry |
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Session T3.1: Practice and industry related case studies Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 1 Chair: Joel Neymark Chair : Jacopo Vivian Using simulation, visualization and monitoring to address barriers to high-performance building strategies 1: Loisos + Ubbelohde, United States of America; 2: University of California, Berkeley 13:48 - 14:06 In-situ validation of a new sizing methodology for combined production and distribution for domestic hot water and space heating University of Antwerp,Faculty of Applied Engineering, Antwerp, Belgium 14:06 - 14:24 Comparison of Heating Power calculated through standard and building simulation models 1: BBRI, Belgium; 2: EMIB, UAntwerpen, Belgium 14:24 - 14:42 Definition and validation of a thermal zone model in Modelica language with Holzkirchen Twin Houses experiment 1: Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milano, Italy; 2: Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria , Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy 14:42 - 15:00 Calibration of a multi-residential building energy model – Part II: Calibration using surrogate-based optimization 1: Cenaero, Belgium; 2: Thomas & Piron Group, Belgium |
Session T3.2: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 2 Chair: Dorota Brzezińska Chair : Ralph Evins FMI Co-Simulation between 2D/3D component models and HVAC/control models TU Dresden, Germany 13:48 - 14:06 Disaggregation of digital meter data for synthetic load profile generation 1: Energy and Materials in Infrastructure and Buildings, University of Antwerp, Belgium; 2: IDLab, University of Antwerp, Belgium; 3: Imec, Belgium 14:06 - 14:24 Measurement of the building envelope thermal performance in collective housings 1: CSTB, France; 2: Univérsité de Bordeaux, France 14:24 - 14:42 Cooling demand reduction approaches for typical buildings in a future city district in mid-Sweden Universuty of Gävle, Sweden |
Session T3.3: Buildings paving the way for the energy transition Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 3 Chair: James O'Donnell Chair : Roel Loonen A critical review and cost-benefit analysis of green roofs in the United States: an optimization-based energy performance simulation study 1: School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2: Hastings Architecture, Nashville, TN, USA 13:48 - 14:06 LSTM hourly solar irradiance prediction using local measurements and weather forecasts Inha Univ., Korea, Republic of (South Korea) 14:06 - 14:24 A critical review of the effectiveness of the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) framework on campus sustainability University of Central Florida, United States of America 14:24 - 14:42 Building services engineering concept to create plus energy industrial hall buildings 1: FH Aachen, Solar Institut Jülich, Germany; 2: FH Aachen, Germany; 3: RWTH Aachen, Chair for Sustainable Metal Building Envelopes, Germany 14:42 - 15:00 Robust optimal identification and scheduling of modernization measures for typical buildings RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate |
Session T3.4: Improving indoor environmental quality Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 4 Chair: Hilde Breesch Exploring easy-implementable adaptation strategies to climate change scenarios of existing office buildings: a case study in the Swiss context 1: Building2050 group, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Fribourg, Switzerland; 2: Thermal Engineering for the Built Environment Laboratory (TEBEL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), EPFL Fribourg, Switzerland 13:48 - 14:06 Implementation of an innovative hybrid low-energy cooling strategy controlled with a fuzzy logic algorithm in a dwelling: numerical and experimental approaches CEA LITEN, France 14:06 - 14:24 Development of adiabatic and isotherm humidifier models to compare health, energy and water use Ghent University, Belgium 14:24 - 14:42 Gas phase air cleaning effects on ventilation energy use and the implications of CO2 concentration as an IAQ indicator for ventilation control Intl. Center for Indoor Environment and Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
Session T3.5: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Crowne Plaza - De Burgh Room Chair: Jelle Laverge Chair : Benjamin Kadoch Influence of internal control simplifications in heat pump system modelling for energy flexibility evaluations 1: KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: EnergyVille, Belgium; 3: Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy 13:48 - 14:06 The effect of the external driving forces modelling on the calculated building energy need through the use of dynamic simulation Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy 14:06 - 14:24 Validation of spectral simulation tools for the prediction of indoor daylight exposure 1: EPFL, Switzerland; 2: TU/e, Netherlands 14:24 - 14:42 Developing a test framework for assessing building thermal resilience Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
Session T3.6: The role of occupants Location: Crowne Plaza - Arnulf Room Chair: Romana Markovic Chair : Mathieu Schumann Indoor climate profiles in Danish apartments based on high temporal resolution measurements 1: International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark; 2: Department of the Built Environment, The Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University Copenhagen 13:48 - 14:06 Development of an interactive virtual reality simulation environment with a thermal feedback for the user 1: UdK Berlin, Germany; 2: TU Berlin, Germany 14:06 - 14:24 Impact and comparison of standard-based, stochastic, and tracked user behaviour in open space offices: A Swiss case study Thermal Engineering for the Built Environment Laboratory (TEBEL), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 14:24 - 14:42 Comparative window use study: habits versus deliberative actions in residential buildings Research Group Building Physics, Ghent University, Belgium 14:42 - 15:00 Designing and experimenting nudge signals to act on the energy signature of households for implementing indirect energy flexibility 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 |
Session T3.7 (Online Track): Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Virtual Meeting Room 1 Chair: Michael Kummert Development of energy use benchmark data with respect to locations, housing types, gross area and construction year from household energy standing survey in Korea Chungbuk National University(CBNU), Korea, Republic of (South Korea) 13:37 - 13:44 Integration of probabilistic methods and parametric tools for performance-based building design decision making Texas A&M University, United States of America 13:44 - 13:51 Energy prediction impact of the Space Level Occupancy schedule for a Primary School 1: University of Colorado, Boudler, United States of America; 2: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America; 3: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States of America 13:51 - 13:58 Impact of ELA calibration methods on building energy model fidelity 1: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; 2: King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA 13:58 - 14:05 Development of Gray-box modeling technique for HVAC&R systems with automatic calibration process 1: Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Japan; 2: Associate Prof., Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Japan; 3: Assistant Prof., Department of Architectural Engineering, Kyonggi University, Repubpic of Korea 14:05 - 14:12 Development of a metamodel to assess building thermal performance for naturally ventilated residential buildings Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil 14:12 - 14:19 A knowledge-based framework for building model performance verification Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America 14:19 - 14:26 Solar radiation nowcasting through advanced CNN model integrated with ResNet structure 1: Welsh school of Architecture, Cardiff University, United Kingdom; 2: School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom 14:26 - 14:33 Intelligent building envelopes energy evaluation: an integration of double-skin facades with earth-tubes Drury University, United States of America 14:33 - 14:40 Whole building validation for simulation programs including synthetic users and heating systems: experiment and results 1: Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP, Germany; 2: Energy Systems Research Unit, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 14:40 - 14:47 A methodology for generating a synthetic local urban climate weather profile for building energy simulations in hot arid areas 1: Applied Science University, Bahrain; 2: Newcastle University, UK |
Session T3.8 (Online Track): Climate change and bioclimatic design Location: Virtual Meeting Room 2 Chair: Rizki Armanto Mangkuto Impacts of climate change on mechanical ventilative cooling in high-rise buildings Université de Sherbrooke, Canada 13:37 - 13:44 Simulations beyond the building, identifying climate adaptation scale jumping potentials to district and city level. Research by design for the city of Monterotondo (Italy) Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 13:44 - 13:51 Life cycle efficiency of solar shading systems: a proof-of-concept 1: Energy Institute, University of Applied Science of Western Switzerland (HEIA-FR, HES-SO), Fribourg, Switzerland;; 2: Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design (LIPID), EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland; 3: Building2050 group, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Fribourg, Switzerland 13:51 - 13:58 Building thermal simulation-based climate classification of India IIT Roorkee, India 13:58 - 14:05 Evaluation of daylighting strategies based on their embodied carbon emissions: a first methodological framework and case study 1: Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design (LIPID), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 2: Energy Institute, University of Applied Science of Western Switzerland (HEIA-FR, HES-SO), Fribourg, Switzerland 14:05 - 14:12 Assessment of a weather-based climate classification with building energy simulation 1: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; 2: TU Eindhoven - Eindhoven, The Netherlands 14:12 - 14:19 Development of the thermal performance index for office building envelope in Asian hot-humid climate zones considering global warming 1: National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 14:19 - 14:26 Solutions for efficient and environmental friendly cooling of data centers 1: University of Florence, Department of Industrial Engineering, Italy; 2: Seeley International Europe 14:26 - 14:33 Building performance simulation as a guide to design decision making: an analysis of architecture students’ design process. 1: Federal University of Santa Catarina; 2: Laboratory of Energy Efficiency in Buildings; 3: Advanced Modeling Group 14:33 - 14:40 Dynamic thermal performance of structurally optimized concrete floor slabs MIT, United States of America 14:40 - 14:58 Simulation of the local urban climate and its mitigation during heat waves 1: Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; 2: ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
Session T3.9 (Online Track): Improving indoor environmental quality Location: Virtual Meeting Room 3 Chair: Veronica Soebarto Assessing the impact of outdoor air pollution on natural ventilation potential in major Indian cities Urban Informatics Lab, Stanford University, Stanford, USA 13:37 - 13:44 Simulating the impact of ventilation on viral infection probability from aerosol transmission in enclosed spaces 1: arbnco ltd, United Kingdom; 2: Arc Skoru 13:44 - 13:51 Interactive Sankey diagram for visualizing real-time and/or simulation-derived energy flows 1: University of British Columbia, Canada; 2: School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia, Canada 13:51 - 13:58 Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) assessment using laser-assisted data acquisition (LADA) of building geometry Department Of The Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark 13:58 - 14:05 Towards safer work environments during the COVID-19 crisis: A Study of different floor plan layouts and ventilation strategies coupling open foam and airborne pathogen data for actionable, simulation-based feedback in design Cornell University, United States of America 14:05 - 14:12 Computational analysis of aerothermal characteristics of skygardens and comparative assessment of different attenuators University of Nottingham, United Kingdom 14:12 - 14:19 The impact of PCM applications on thermal comfort in standardized preschool designs in 2 Brazilian climatic zones Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 14:19 - 14:26 Building meta-optimization: A study on the reuse of previous simulation data to reduce computational costs Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil 14:26 - 14:33 Assessing performance of passive or low-energy resilient cooling technologies for pre-1980 medium office buildings in Phoenix, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois 1: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA; 2: University of California, Berkeley, USA 14:33 - 14:40 Optimum daylighting and thermal comfort simulation framework for school buildings in hot arid climate 1: Department of Architecture, Cairo University, Egypt; 2: Construction Engineering Department, The American University in Cairo, Egypt; 3: Construction and Building Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt; 4: EGEC Qatar for Engineering Consultations, Doha, Qatar 14:40 - 14:47 End-use disaggregation in commercial buildings with the building automation system trend data 1: Carleton university, Ottawa, Canada; 2: National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Canada 14:47 - 14:54 The impact of using the application of a CNN-based approach for equipment usage detection on building energy University of Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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Session T4.1: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 1 Chair: Agnese Salvati Chair : Hicham Johra Collecting data for urban building energy modelling by remote sensing and machine learning 1: Institute of Solar Research at German Aerospace Center (DLR), Jülich, Germany; 2: German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) at German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; 3: Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures at German Aerospace Center (DLR), Sankt Augustin, Germany; 4: Institute of Optical Sensor Systems at German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin-Adlershof, Germany; 5: ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany 15:18 - 15:36 Gh-urban: a Grasshopper plugin for employing CityGML data in dynamical building simulations and the utilization of energy Application Domain Extension Technical University of Munich, Germany 15:36 - 15:54 Global sensitivity analysis for large scale building energy models: importance of building stock size and convergence Ghent University, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Building Physics Research Group, Belgium 15:54 - 16:12 Uncertainty analysis of life cycle assessment input parameters on city quarter level 1: Institute of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Design and Building, Technical University of Munich, Germany; 2: Chair of Geoinformatics, Technical University of Munich, Germany 16:12 - 16:30 Determination of household area and number of occupants for residential buildings based on census data and 3D CityGML building models for entire municipalities in Germany Center for Sustainable Energy Technology, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany |
Session T4.2: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 2 Chair: Alessandro Dama Embedded single-board controller for Double Skin Facade : a co-simulation virtual test bed 1: Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2: Eurac Research, Italy; 3: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway 15:18 - 15:36 Pyrano – A Python package for LiDAR-based solar irradiance simulations Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 15:36 - 15:54 A practical approach for modelling PV off-grid systems in EnergyPlus using post-processing of data to identify black out days University of Murcia, Spain 15:54 - 16:12 Initial validation of the one-diode photovoltaic model for the flexible panels Lodz University of Technology, Poland |
Session T4.3: Buildings paving the way for the energy transition Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 3 Chair: Elli Nikolaidou Chair : Vojtech Zavrel Validated combined first and last year borefield sizing methodology. 1: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium; 2: Boydens Engineering, Dilbeek, Belgium; 3: EnergyVille, Thor Park, Waterschei, Belgium; 4: Department of Architecture and Urban planning, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium 15:18 - 15:36 Efficiency of a heated air curtain under cross-jet temperature gradients 1: Building Physics and Sustainable Design Section, KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: Building Physics and Services Unit, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; 3: Fluids and Flows, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 15:36 - 15:54 Development of the hybridGEOTABS design methodology for feasibility study and pre-design 1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: Boydens Engineering, Belgium; 3: KU Leuven, Belgium 15:54 - 16:12 To be or not to be a hybridGEOTABS: energy performance of hybridGEOTABS buildings in the EU Ghent University, Belgium 16:12 - 16:30 BIM2SIM - Development of semi-automated methods for the generation of simulation models using Building Information Modeling 1: RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate; 2: RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building (E3D); 3: Rud. Otto Meyer GmbH & Co. KG |
Session T4.4: Improving indoor environmental quality Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 4 Chair: J. Alstan Jakubiec Chair : Hayder Alsaad High fidelity multi-objective optimization of VAV system design University of Victoria, Canada 15:18 - 15:36 "Assessing energy poverty and potential retrofit scenarios in residential stock in Albania". Epoka University, Albania 15:36 - 15:54 Investigation of the resiliency of passive and natural cooling solutions through uncertainty analysis in a NZEB residential building in Denmark ABUD, Hungary |
Session T4.5: Meet the peers Location: Crowne Plaza - De Burgh Room Chair: Elisa Van Kenhove Presenters: Bjarne Olesen, Lieve Helsen, Catherine Gorle and Jeffrey Spitler How to learn from your peers, the highly experienced or even famous researchers? At BS2021 we have identified some of the “top” building simulation researchers and we will put them together for a casual panel discussion trying to address all of the audience scientific and non-scientific questions (Q&A). You will learn something more about their career path, their ups and downs and life changing choices and moments. |
Session T4.6: The role of occupants Location: Crowne Plaza - Arnulf Room Chair: Jérôme Le Dréau Chair : Chantal Basurto A stochastic occupancy modeling approach to enhance the energy efficiency of residential heating and cooling through occupancy sensing technology 1: School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2: Department of Electrical Enginereing and Computer Science, Syracuse University, United States of America 15:18 - 15:36 Occupant satisfaction with automation: experimental data vs. simulation 1: Arup, Smart Buildings, London, United Kingdom; 2: Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge; 3: Arup, Facade Engineering, London, United Kingdom; 4: Structural Design and Mechanics, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, The Netherlands 15:36 - 15:54 People who? Why occupant behaviour modelling is not (yet) included in the design workflow 1: Arup, United Kingdom; 2: Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge |
Session T4.7 (Online Track): Practice and industry related case studies Location: Virtual Meeting Room 1 Chair: Ana Paula Melo Simulation of historical buildings: bedford cottages, devon, uk University of Plymouth, United Kingdom 15:18 - 15:36 Multi-criteria robustness assessment of a sequential whole-building design optimization Loughborough University, United Kingdom 15:36 - 15:54 An integrated analysis of structural safety, embodied carbon, and construction cost in a prefabricated Chinese timber house within a BIM-based environment 1: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 2: Tianjin University, China 15:54 - 16:12 Predicted energy savings by adopting novel radiant cooling systems in combination with natural ventilation 1: School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 2: Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment, Princeton University, Princeton USA; 3: Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
Session T4.8 (Online Track): Climate change and bioclimatic design Location: Virtual Meeting Room 2 Chair: Ivan Oropeza-perez Application of solar energy in the development of university buildings energetic sustainability 1: University of Algarve, Portugal; 2: CINTAL, Portugal; 3: Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal; 4: School of Built Environment, University of Reading, United Kingdom 15:18 - 15:36 A comparison of performance of three variance-based sensitivity analysis methods on an urban-scale building energy model UCL, United Kingdom 15:36 - 15:54 Extreme weather data in building performance simulation 1: Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy; 2: Bentley Systems Inc., Washington, DC, USA; 3: University of Trento - Trento, Italy; 4: DHL Consulting LLC, Pagosa Springs, CO, USA 15:54 - 16:12 Predicting solar radiation with Artificial Neural Network based on urban geometrical classification 1: Department of Architecture and Built Environment, faculty of environment and technology, university of west england, United Kingdom; 2: Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University 16:12 - 16:30 Evaluating and improving outdoor thermal comfort using surrogate modeling and optimization techniques Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
Session T4.9 (Online Track): Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Virtual Meeting Room 3 ThRend: a ray tracing module for infrared rendering of urban scenes UdelaR, Uruguay 15:18 - 15:36 CityFFD/CityBEM: Fast and high accurate urban microclimate model 1: Concordia University, Canada; 2: Environment and Climate Change, Dorval, Canada 15:36 - 15:54 A parametric analysis of the impact of thermophysical, geometry and urban context features on the energy demand of a simplified building shoebox model Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy 15:54 - 16:12 Modeling district heating and cooling systems with URBANopt, GeoJSON to Modelica Translator, and the Modelica Buildings Library 1: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States of America; 2: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States of America; 3: Devetry 16:12 - 16:30 Evolving co-heating tests to deliver additional performance metrics and support model calibration 1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: Building Research Establishment, United Kingdom |
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Coffee Break Location: Belfry |
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Session T5.1: Buildings paving the way for the energy transition Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 1 Chair: James O'Donnell Chair : Javier Arroyo A collective heat and cold distribution system with decentralized booster heat pumps: a sizing study. University of Antwerp, EMIB research group, Antwerp, Belgium 17:18 - 17:36 Digital Twin Design with on-line calibration for HVAC systems in buildings 1: RWTH Aachen University, Germany; 2: MERCE Mitsubishi, Scotland 17:36 - 17:54 A virtual test bed for evaluating advanced building automation algorithms 1: RWTH Aachen University, E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Energy Efficient Buildings and Indoor Climate, Aachen, Germany; 2: Aedifion GmbH, Cologne, Germany 17:54 - 18:12 Strengths of non-linear white-box MPC for building HVAC control 1: KU Leuven, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leuven, Belgium; 2: EnergyVille, Thor Park, Waterschei, Belgium |
Session T5.2: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 2 Chair: Andreas Nicolai Chair : Ralph Evins A parametric combined design and simulation tool for the optimisation of domestic hot water systems in residential care centres UGent / Archipelago 17:18 - 17:36 Simulation of Legionella risks when restarting a sanitary sport facility installation after a period of inactivity during COVID-19 Ghent University, Belgium 17:36 - 17:54 Towards the integration of energy performance certificates (EPC) and simplified building performance simulations using machine learning: initial findings 1: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 2: University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom 17:54 - 18:12 Interactions of building- / urban-, and multi-energy systems design variables 1: Architecture and Building Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Sustainability and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 18:12 - 18:30 Using a surrogate model to analyze the impact of geometry on energy efficiency of buildings. 1: University of Victoria, Canada; 2: University of Victoria, Canada; 3: University of Victoria, Canada |
Session T5.3: Buildings paving the way for the energy transition Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 3 Chair: Christoph Nytsch-Geusen Chair : Vincent Lemort Co-simulation approach to evaluate MPC strategies for all-air systems: case study KU Leuven, Belgium 17:18 - 17:36 Experimental tests on the optimal management of all-electric dwellings 1: University of Padua, Italy; 2: Ricerca Sistema Energetico S.p.A. 17:36 - 17:54 Model predictive control framework for operation of smart sustainable buildings 1: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology; 2: Aalborg University |
Session T5.4: Improving indoor environmental quality Location: Cityhall (Belfry) - Room 4 Chair: Shady Attia Chair : Massimo Palme DL Abacus- A simplified simulation-based tool for daylighting performance assessment in Brazilian dwellings 1: PósArq, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil; 2: ICIEE, DTU Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark 17:18 - 17:36 Heat balance analysis of an office building with fully glazed façade in tropical and temperate climates in Brazil Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil 17:36 - 17:54 Defining the life-cycle energy implications of informal settlement redevelopment Urban Informatics Lab, Stanford University, United States of America |
Session T5.5: Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Crowne Plaza - De Burgh Room Chair: Fabian Ochs Chair : Emmanuel BOZONNET Comparison of different clustering approaches on different databases of smart meter data 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California; 3: Università Bocconi, Italy 17:18 - 17:36 Evaluation of different refurbishment or improvement strategies to reduce the environmental impact of University campuses 1: Basque Country University (UPV/EHU), Architecture Department, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain; 2: Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Energy and Environment Division, Azpeitia, Spain |
Session T5.6: Buildings paving the way for the energy transition Location: Crowne Plaza - Arnulf Room Chair: Catherine Gorle Development of life-cycle based strategies towards buildings with a positive ecological footprint using thermal building simulations Technical University of Munich, Germany 17:18 - 17:36 Analysis of step-by-step individual roadmaps – what can we learn about the practice? TUW, Austria 17:36 - 17:54 Energy performance of ETICS integrated with flexible photovoltaic panel 1: Lodz University of Technology, Poland; 2: Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia; 3: Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia 17:54 - 18:12 LCA optimal sizing of smart buildings' energy system components considering flexible LCA-grid-footprints 1: FH Aachen, Solar Institut Jülich, Germany; 2: FH Aachen, Germany; 3: RWTH Aachen, Chair for Sustainable Metal Building Envelopes, Germany 18:12 - 18:30 Multi-response optimization of a hybrid solar gas heating system based on the response surface method 1: 1Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique et Développement, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria.; 2: EPF School of Engineering; 3: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke |
Session T5.7 (Online Track): Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Virtual Meeting Room 1 Chair: Michael Wetter Simulating thermal resilience of buildings and their influence by urban microclimate using EnergyPlus Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States of America 17:18 - 17:36 Passive envelope design optimization of residential buildings using NSGA-II in different Algerian climatic zones 1: University of Blida-1,Blida, Algeria; 2: Laboratory of Design and Modeling of Architectural and Urban Forms and Ambiances (LACOMOFA), Dept. of Architecture, University of Biskra, Algeria; 3: NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Civil and Transport Engineering, Trondheim, Norway; 4: Sustainable Building Design Lab, Dept. UEE, Applied Sciences, Universite de Liege, Belgium 17:36 - 17:54 ASHRAE Standard 205P: Progress towards representation of performance data for HVAC&R equipment 1: Big Ladder Software, Denver, CO, USA; 2: Thermal Energy System Specialists, Madison, WI, USA; 3: Independent Consultant, Moultonborough, NH, USA 17:54 - 18:12 New Standard 140 test suite: check the weather before you simulate 1: Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC, United States of America; 2: Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America 18:12 - 18:30 Derivation of high-resolution local thermal conditions from satellite-based data TU Wien, Austria |
Session T5.8 (Online Track): The role of occupants Location: Virtual Meeting Room 2 Indoor air quality during lockdown: A monitoring-based simulation-assisted study in London UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom 17:18 - 17:36 Energy Flexibility of Clusters of Buildings: development of an assessment tool 1: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e Scienze Matematiche, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, 60131 Ancona, Italy; 2: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione, Viale Lombardia 49, 20098 San Giuliano Milanese (MI), Italy; 3: Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium 17:36 - 17:54 Impact of occupant behavior on performance optimized building retrofits 1: Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; 2: Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy; 3: Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments, University IUAV of Venice, Italy 17:54 - 18:12 How the occupancy affects the reverberation of large university halls University of Bologna, Italy 18:12 - 18:30 Representations of people in urban building energy models UCL, United Kingdom |
Session T5.9 (Online Track): Ensuring high quality building simulations Location: Virtual Meeting Room 3 Chair: Ivan Oropeza-perez Peak extraction in daylight simulations using BSDF data 1: Bartenbach GmbH, Aldrans, Austria; 2: Anyhere Software, Berkeley, California, USA; 3: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA 17:18 - 17:36 Modelling of transparent PV windows with CFS 1: Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Spain; 2: Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH 17:36 - 17:54 The influence of envelope moisture in the building energy simulation 1: Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Italy; 2: Department of Integrated Safety in Construction, National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering 17:54 - 18:12 Deteriorate: a model to simulate envelope r-value fluctuations in natural porous insulation Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America 18:12 - 18:30 Distributed sensing for indoor environments: comparing measured and simulated indoor airflow data for complex commercial building interiors 1: Yale University, United States of America; 2: EYP, United States of America |
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Free time |
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Conference Dinner Location: Brewery Halve Maan |
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