Building Information Models as product models and Building Information Modelling as a process which supports information management throughout the lifecycle of a building are becoming more widely used in the Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) industry. In order to facilitate various urban management tasks (such as evacuation operations) and several processes of the construction life cy...

This paper describes the implementation of a computational fluid dynamic algorithm within the ESP-r building energy modelling system. While the implementation is specific to ESP-r, the conflation approach is general and could be applied to other building performance appraisal programs. The paper also presents an example application to indicate the potential effects of the enhanced modelling res...

Although a number of tool boxes for compiler construction exist, the language implementation task can often be made easier by building specialised tools. A prototype Haskell system was implemented within a four month period using such an approach. The system is currently used as a front end for a transputer array, Haskell implementation. In this article we describe the tool building aspect of t...