A roof provides protection to be safe from direct sunlight. From the shelter, shadow alone is not expected. Durability, sustainability, less life cycle cost, and low maintenance cost are expected from a selected roof. The world has a thirst to have a best roof. No roof will fulfil the requirement of humanity since the climatic conditions are different. Hence the roof should be selected accordin...

There has been extensive research focusing on developing smart environments by integrating data mining techniques into environments that are equipped with sensors and actuators. The ultimate goal is to reduce the energy consumption in buildings while maintaining a maximum comfort level for occupants. However, there are few studies successfully demonstrating energy savings from occupancy behavio...

The architectural form of the façade determines its identity as well interactions with micro-climate forces ambient environment, such solar radiation. dynamic nature daylight and occupants' positions can cause some issues heat gains visual discomfort, which need to be controlled in real-time operation. Improving performance preventing discomfort for multiple occupants simultaneously is challeng...

A number of recent research efforts focus on the inclusion more detailed models occupants in building performance computing. Thereby, agent-based modelling (ABM) has theoretical potential to capture dynamic and complex patterns occupants’ presence behaviour buildings. This paper starts with a brief reference reviews state art concerning deployment ABM energy simulation. Subsequently, an illustr...

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This paper describes an innovative multiagent system called SAVES with the goal of conserving energy in commercial buildings. We specifically focus on an application to be deployed in an existing university building that provides several key novelties: (i) jointly performed with the university facility management team, SAVES is based on actual occupant preferences and schedules, actual energy c...

The design of controllers for integrated building systems has been traditionally carried out using basic techniques validated frequently by simulation. However, the demands on occupants’ comfort, safety and energy consumption increase speedily as the current controllers used in buildings are not efficient and enough flexible to be adapted to any changes. To investigate such issues, this paper f...

Currently, the cities in southern region of Chile present extremely high levels atmospheric pollution. One main reasons for that is adoption inadequate thermal envelopes, which are not adapted to buildings’ climatic and environmental surrounding conditions. Usually, existing buildings do have any type insulation, causes excessive heating spaces, a where source heat firewood. Thus, there need in...

This paper presents a numerical study on the energy performance of solar greenhouse used as heat source in ventilation system applied virtual house. work, developed winter conditions, uses and heating system. The greenhouse, to air, is built with group glasses turned East, South West, placed above roof, system, two groups ducts, one transport warm air spaces north other free cooling south. simu...