Large-scale building energy efficiency retrofit: Concept, model and control

Employment Impacts of a Large-Scale Deep Building Energy Retrofit Programme in Hungary

Building and Community Energy Retrofit Housing in Wales

This paper presents a modelling-led approach applied to low carbon innovative housing retrofit practice in Wales, UK. The research has investigated the implementation of combinations of existing and emerging low carbon technologies through a systems based approach to optimise the use of energy at the point of generation at both building and community scales. A performance prediction model has b...

Increasing Energy Efficiency in Building Climate Control using Weather Forecasts and Model Predictive Control

This paper presents an investigation of how Model Predictive Control (MPC) and weather predictions can increase the energy efficiency in Integrated Room Automation (IRA) while respecting occupant comfort. IRA deals with the simultaneous control of heating, ventilation and air conditioning as well as blind positioning and electric lighting such that the room temperature as well as CO2 and lumina...

Model Building for Large Scale Inspections

This paper focuses on data enhancement, the process of building multiresolution, multi-modal models to be manipulated and displayed with human interaction. The goal of this research is to develop a method for answering the challenge of enhancing data. This method consists of building a data structure with multiresolution capabilities for data display. This process increases the effectiveness of...

Benchmarking Concept for Energy Efficiency in the Manufacturing Industry - A Holistic Energy Efficiency Model

Determination and comparison of the energy efficiency over all planning levels is one of the key challenges for small and mediums sized enterprises (SME). This is because there is a lack of transparency and information to identify the major energy consumers on plant level as well as on production and machine level. Therefore, there is a need to develop a holistic energy efficiency model which i...