Abstract Although solar radiation exposure strongly impacts people's thermal comfort, workstations are frequently positioned close to glazed façades. Solar adjustment models have been developed include the impact on which Fanger and Adaptative do not address. Nonetheless, those present differences in their calculation procedures, thoroughly investigated. This study aims verify comfort results b...

Building retrofitting is an efficient means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Its first focus on building façade, as transmission and air leakage are the main sources energy loss in buildings. Nowadays, modellers cannot easily implement envelope assume constant values, which results erroneous estimates. Additionally, simulations, a weather file usually inserted with measurements provided by...

Energy conservation in buildings has been the focus of many studies since nearly one-third global energy consumption is due to buildings. Phase change material (PCM) technology promises be an attractive solution for saving it a passive and effective technology, as demonstrated literature. Therefore, this study focuses on energy-saving performance PCM-integrated located Mediterranean climate rev...

To investigate the impact of the new UK Climate Projections on building performance, a primary school building has been simulated with help of a dynamic building performance simulation package (EnergyPlus Version 6) using 4 sets of future test reference year data which were produced by the UK Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, Exeter University, Manchester University and Nort...

In the Swiss research project OptiControl (www.opticontrol.ethz.ch), new predictive building control strategies are developed and applied to a fully occupied, well instrumented demonstrator building. Here we report on the development and validation of the EnergyPlus building energy performance simulation model used in the project. Validation was done in three stages: (i) plausibility testing, (...

This paper presents an analysis of the energy performance of commercial buildings in Brazil based on the influence of the thermal transmittance of the external walls and roof. Several combinations were simulated taking into account different input data such as the internal load density, window to wall ratio, solar absorptance and other parameters to evaluate their influence on the annual energy...

Nowadays, relevant data collected from hospital buildings remain insufficient because often have stricter environmental requirements resulting in more limited access than other building types. Additionally, existing window-opening behavior models were mostly developed and validated using measured the experimental itself. Hence, their accuracy is only assessed by algorithm’s evaluation index, wh...

With the need for a green economy and introduction of low-carbon policies, more old buildings are being transformed to improve thermal performance reduce energy consumption. However, people ignore village public buildings. Based on investigation typical health center in Linyi City, this paper proposed improvement measures using EnergyPlus simulation software JePlus parameter chemical tools. The...