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State of the Union in Daylighting at EPFL

The History and Heritage of Daylighting Design in Architecture Daylight contributes to the quality of architectural spaces and provides most of the necessary lighting provision to building occupants together with a premium spectral composition and temporal ...

2011

Modelling occupants’ personal characteristics for thermal comfort prediction

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

Based on results from a field survey campaign conducted in Switzerand, we show that occupants’ variations in clothing choices, which are relatively unconstrained, are best described by the daily mean outdoor temperature and that major clothing adjustments ...

Springer-Verlag2011

Building Integrability of Solar Thermal Systems - Present & Future

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

Solar thermal systems are becoming a mandatory part of the future “energy in buildings” landscape, as demonstrated by the numerous national promotion programs and new compulsory solar fractions regulations. Considering their size at the building envelope s ...

2011

Integration of Eye-tracking Methods in Visual Comfort Assessments

Marilyne Andersen, Mandana Sarey Khanie

Discomfort glare, among different aspects of visual discomfort is a phenomenon which is little understood and hard to quantify. As this phenomenon is dependent on the building occupant’s view direction and on the relative position of the glare source, a de ...

2011

Towards a Unified Model of Occupants' Behaviour and Comfort for Building Energy Simulation

Frédéric Haldi

The building sector alone accounts for around half of the energy consumed in Switzerland and most other developed countries, with associated adverse environmental consequences, and there is a great potential for savings in this sector. For this reason, the ...

EPFL2010

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

Comparing physical and virtual methods for daylight performance modelling including complex fenestration systems

Anothai Thanachareonkit

Physical or virtual models are commonly employed to visualize the conceptual ideas of architects, lighting designers and daylighting researchers. The models are also used to assess the daylighting performance of their buildings, particularly when Complex F ...

EPFL2008

Energieeffiziente Bürobeleuchtung - Das Projekt "Green Lighting"

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Friedrich Linhart

The „Green Lighting“ project, started in 2006 at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), explores different ways to combine modern day- and artificial lighting technologies. The main objective of ...

BRENET2008

A generalised stochastic model for the simulation of occupant presence

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson, Nicolas Morel

This paper describes an algorithm for the simulation of occupant presence, to be later used as an input for future occupant behaviour models within building simulation tools. By considering occupant presence as an inhomogeneous Markov chain interrupted by ...

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

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