Sentence examples for building performance simulation programs from inspiring English sources
This paper reports the investigation of the correlation of building energy use intensities, estimated by six building performance simulation programs and, based on findings, establishes formulas for conversion of each program to another in selected simulation tools.
Aiming to address these gaps, the International Energy Agency IEA Energygy in Buildings and Community (EBC) Programme Annex 66 has established a scientific methodological framework for occupant behavior research, including data collection, behavior model representation, modeling and evaluation approaches, and the integration of behavior modeling tools with building performance simulation programs.
In this article the most fundamental decomposition-based optimization method - block coordinate search, based on the sequential decomposition of problems in subproblems - and building performance simulation programs are used for reasoning about a building design process at micro-urban scale and defining strategies for making the search more efficient.
Computational analyses are carried out using the detailed building performance simulation program IDA-ICE, assisted by a postprocessing calculation model developed in MATLAB®.
In the current study, a modified multi-objective optimization approach based on Genetic Algorithm is proposed and combined with IDA ICE (building performance simulation program).
The implemented approach is coupling the IDA ICE 3.0 building performance simulation program with the GenOpt 2.0 generic optimisation program to find optimised values of five selected design variables in the building construction and HVAC system.
This objective function was computed using the EnergyPlus building performance simulation programme.
The thermal behaviour of one of the above mentioned buildings equipped by passive heating and cooling techniques is calculated and analysed in the present paper using a transient building's performance simulation program.
Building performance simulation is frequently used to support building design, renovation, and operation.
Building performance simulation research has traditionally concentrated on the building design phase.
