Practical Applications 5 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am

Pollutant dispersion in a natural ventilated dental clinic 5 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am

Mechanical ventilation poses some challenges for control of pollutants in a fully enclosed dental clinic. Natural ventilation is used in some clinics because of its high exhausting efficiency and low ...

Freezing soil effects on earth-contact heat transfer 5 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am

The inclusion of soil freezing and snow cover within the context of a building energy simulation is explored. In particular, a method of including soil freezing within the simulation of heat flow from...

Automated optimal design methodology of elevator systems using rules and graphical methods (the HARint plane) 5 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am

The design of an elevator system heavily relies on the calculation of the round-trip time under up-peak (incoming) traffic conditions. The round-trip time can either be calculated analytically or by t...

An optimal predictive control strategy for radiant floor district heating systems: Simulation and experimental study 5 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am

A study was conducted to assess the energy performance of an optimal predictive control strategy for radiant floor district heating systems. A four-zone radiant floor heating system model was develope...

Performance analysis on a residential radiant chilled ceiling system and evaluation on indoor thermal environment in summer: an application 5 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am

The performance of a residential radiant chilled ceiling system combined with an outdoor air handling unit under steady operating conditions in summer was tested, and the stable operating characterist...

Design approach for the integration of services in buildings 5 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am

This paper describes a novel methodology to group building services into a single trunking system at minimal proximal distances between them. The study focused on solving the geometrical complexity en...

Using two parallel connected compressors to implement a novel control algorithm for improved indoor humidity at a low cost 5 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am

A novel control algorithm, named H-L control, for a direct expansion air conditioning system was previously developed, so that an improved indoor humidity control was achieved at a higher energy effic...

Modelling of water demand in building supply systems using fuzzy logic 18 Apr 2013 | 06:07 pm

This paper presents a method to establish the design flow rate adopting probabilistic and possibilistic approaches to model the subjective behaviour of the users that affects strongly the duration of ...

The design reference year - a new approach to testing a building in more extreme weather using UKCP09 projections 18 Apr 2013 | 06:07 pm

Current practice in building design is to assess a building’s performance using average or typical weather, a test reference year (TRY), and then to see how it performs when ‘stressed’, using a design...