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Darren Robinson

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A PARTIAL DOUBLE BLIND EVALUATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE WINDOW OPENING MODEL

One of the key sources of uncertainty in building simulation relates to the presence and behaviour of occupants. Fortunately, several academic groups have been working to address this uncertainty, particularly in relation to the use of windows and the corr ...

2010

THE IMPACT OF OCCUPANTS’ BEHAVIOUR ON URBAN ENERGY DEMAND

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

Using extensive field survey data acquired over the past seven years at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory at EPFL in Switzerland, models of occupants’ presence, opening and closing of windows and the raising and lowering of blinds have been ...

TU Vienna2010

Optimisation of building form for solar energy utilisation using constrained evolutionary algorithms

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson

In this paper we describe a new methodology for optimising building and urban geometric forms for the utilisation of solar irradiation, whether by passive or active means. For this we use a new evolutionary algorithm(a hybrid CMA-ES/HDE algorithm) to searc ...

Elsevier2010

A comparison of global optimisation algorithms with standard benchmark functions and real-world applications using EnergyPlus

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson

There is an increasing interest in the use of computer algorithms to identify combinations of parameters which optimise the energy performance of buildings. For such problems, the objective function can be multi-modal and needs to be approximated numerical ...

Taylor & Francis2010

Optimisation of solar energy utilisation potential in the urban context

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson

Around three quarters of global resource consumption takes place in urban settlements, with corresponding adverse environmental consequences. According to population forecasts this situation will be exacerbated during the coming years. It is therefore impe ...

2010

Results from the monitoring of indoor environment and occupant perceived productivity in office buildings

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

Based on almost 18 months of continuous direct measurements coupled with an electronic questionnaire, we have analysed the influence of indoor temperature and illuminance, outdoor climate parameters, thermal and visual sensation, clothing and season on the ...

2010

Solar radiation modelling for urban environments

Darren Robinson

In this paper we briefly describe three alternative techniques for modelling solar radiation in the urban context. These include the use of: (i) simple morphological parameters as indicators of radiation availability, (ii) a ray-tracing program in conjunct ...

Université de Technologie Compiègne2010

Adaptive actions on shading devices in response to local visual stimuli

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

Based on 6 years of continuous measurements, we have analysed in detail the occupancy, thermal and visual parameters influencing actions on shading devices in order to derive an accurate model for the prediction of their usage in office buildings. This art ...

2010

Optimisation of buildings solar irradiation availability

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Marylène Montavon, Raffaele Bolliger, Josep Bunyesc Palacín

In order to improve the sustainability of new and existing urban settlements it is desirable to maximise the utilisation of the solar energy incident on the building envelope, whether by passive or active means. To this end we have coupled a multi-objectiv ...

2009

From the neighbourhood to the city : resource flow modelling for urban sustainability

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi, Diane Perez, Adil Rasheed, Urs Wilke, Philippe Leroux

Agreed intergovernmental targets to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases due to predominantly urban anthropogenic activities are becoming increasingly stringent; one might even say ambitious. One crucial strategy in achieving these targets will be to im ...

EPFL2009

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