School buildings as a major part of public buildings are considered as one of the basic consumers of energy in Iran. Based on building typology and occupancy patterns, school buildings have a great potentiality for energy optimization while providing thermal comfort. This study investigates the architectural design parameters such as orientation, optimum window to wall ratio, space organization...

Indoor climate comfort is important for school buildings. Nowadays, this a topical problem, especially in renovated Poorly ventilated classrooms create improper conditions classrooms. A post-occupancy study was performed building temperate climatic conditions. The evaluation based on the results of long-term monitoring natural ventilation strategy and measurements carbon dioxide concentration c...

An 'active façade' responds to (and anticipates on) changing indoor and outdoor conditions. To assess the potential of such a façade for minimising energy consumption and improving indoor comfort, a simplified building simulation model has been developed, that combines the simplicity and understanding of easy to use programs with the flexibility and possibilities of advanced programs. To valida...

In the coming years, heat waves will be more and frequent severe. New buildings must ensure thermal comfort to occupants despite hot summer conditions, using passive elements, such as solar shadings, night ventilation, limitations of gains. The real performance systems is very sensitive occupants’ actions in case un-automated systems. order better understand quantify influence different (window...

Most modern HVAC systems suffer from two intrinsic problems. First, inability to meet diverse comfort requirements of the occupants. Second, heat or cool an entire zone even when the zone is only partially occupied. Both issues can be mitigated by using personal comfort systems (PCS) which bridge the comfort gap between what is provided by a central HVAC system and the personal preferences of t...

Residential buildings help to facilitate the occupants against solar radiation and adverse weather conditions. However, growing increase in climate change our environment has resulted different side effects on human’s health mostly northern region of Nigeria other parts world where high from sun are experience. This key interests this research possible thermal insulation materials that can resi...

We present a method for predicting visual comfort conditions of occupants in daylit spaces. Using an online survey, 67 occupants of a multi-story open plan studio space evaluated long-term visual comfort at their workstations in a substantially daylit space which is known to have glare problems. Visual comfort simulations of each occupant’s specific location were conducted and compared to the s...

In an attempt to increase energy efficiency in high-performance mixed-mode buildings, a control optimization is conducted, yielding a sequence of best-case energy saving and comfort preserving window opening schedules. The optimal sequence and a set of corresponding predictors are used in a classification tree analysis to glean simple control logic from the optimal solution that can be embedded...

Most human activities are carried out in an indoors space. The room as activity support facility must be able to provide a sense of comfort and safety the health impacts needed by its occupants. Unhealthy working conditions can cause SBS (Sick Building Syndrome). is problem discomfort during room, which gradually disappears when user leaves building. causes decrease user’s health, comfort, prod...

Occupant behaviour simulation frameworks can employ synthetic populations to characterize occupancy and behavioural patterns in buildings based on observed demographic data at a certain geographical location. For buildings, very few occupant have been generated. This paper uses Bayesian Networks (BN) structural learning approach synthesize of occupants multi-family housing case study. Two addit...