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Graphical Representation of Climate-Based Daylight Performance to Support Architectural Design

Many conventional daylighting design tools are limited in that each simulation represents only one time of year and time of day (or a single, theoretical overcast sky condition). Since daylight is so variable - due to the movement of the sun, changing seas ...

2008

Optimisation of Buildings Daylight Availability

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Marylène Montavon

Many researchers have the goal of improving buildings daylight availability in order to decrease the HVAC energy intake. Indeed by achieving/identifying sustainable urban forms and their design concepts, the benefits of the solar radiation can be of threef ...

EPFL2007

Study and Simulation of the Energy Balance of an Urban Transportation Network

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade, Blaise Destraz

This paper proposes and studies new strategies for an increase of the energetic efficiency of an urban transportation network fed with catenaries. A simulation tool has been developed to determine the energy efficiency on the global transportation system ( ...

2007

Integration of Solar Energy Technologies in Switzerland : From Building to Nanoscale

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

The Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has been involved in research and technological development of solar energy for building applications since the middle of the seventies. Focusing first ...

2006

Tracer gas measurement of airflow rates in rooms with several air-handling units and large recirculation rates

Claude-Alain Roulet

Methods to measure airflow rates using tracer gas in single air handling units are well known. In some buildings however, in particular in Singapore, rooms are often ventilated with two or more units and present large recirculation rates. Large recirculati ...

2006

A Model for Simulating the Thermal and Electrical Production of Small-Scale Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Cogeneration Systems within Building Simulation Programs

François Maréchal

A new model for predicting the thermal and electrical performance of solid-oxide fuel cell(SOFC) cogeneration devices for residential buildings has been developed and demonstrated. This is a system-level model that considers the thermodynamic performance o ...

2006

Comfort and well-being in solar buildings - Results from a European Audit

Claude-Alain Roulet

ABSTRACT : The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires EU member states to establish a methodology for calculating the energy performance of buildings within a framework that includes the effect of active and passive solar systems as well ...

2006

CEN Standards for Implementing the European Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings

Claude-Alain Roulet

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires EU member states to establish a methodology for calculating the energy performance of buildings within a framework that includes the effect of active and passive solar systems as well as other c ...

2006

Perceived health and comfort in relation to energy use and building characteristics

Claude-Alain Roulet

Within the European research project Health Optimisation Protocol for Energy-efficient Building (HOPE), 96 apartment buildings and 64 office buildings (of which approximately 75% have been designed to be energy-efficient) were investigated. The building ch ...

2006

Analysis of error sources within daylighting physical and virtual models of buildings

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Anothai Thanachareonkit

Recent studies have pointed out the general tendency of scale models to overestimate the daylighting performance of buildings, usually expressed through work plane illuminance and daylight factor distribution profiles. An analysis of the corresponding sour ...

2005

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