Day 2, Session Block D
08:30 Models, Tools and Simulations for Sustainable Buildings
Chair: Fabian Ochs, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Evaluating multilayer lightweight building envelopes
- Thermal properties of lightweight building envelopes
- Investigation of transparent, translucent and opaque building envelopes
Walter Haase, ILEK, Stuttgart, Germany
Building typology and solar energy harvesting potential
- Analysis of thirty building typologies
- Key design parameters for PV energy yield
Ji Zhang, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore
Tools and strategies to improve climate-driven façade design
- Climate classification focused on human comfort
- A web-based tool for climate data visualization and façade design
- Passive strategies for high-performance façade design in the tropics
Rodrigo Velasco, Universidad Piloto de Colombia
Building performance simulation in architectural design
- Barriers in the implementation of parametric simulation in the engineering industry
- Quality of integrated design by working closer with architects
- User interface, control of HVAC and indoor climate is found
Jon W. Strunge, Søren Jensen Rådg. Ing., Copenhagen, Denmark
Thermal comfort in buildings with advanced façade systems
- Evaluation of building design parameters
- Local thermal comfort analysis
- Advanced façade system performance
Nicola Lolli, SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, Trondheim, Norway
Brief Presentations
Building simulation model based on collected environment data
Giuseppe Ardito, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Full-scale climate measurement around the building façade
Peter Juras, Faculty of Civil Engineering, UNIZA, Zilina, Slovakia
10:00 Coffee Break