Day 1, Session Block C2
16:30 Performance of the Building Envelope
Chair: Ryan Krug, Pie Consulting & Engineering, Eden Prarie, United States
Implementing a quality assurance program for sustainable buildings
- Construction quality risks, solutions and benefits
- Critical success factors require active management
- Workflow diagrams with stoplight simplicity
Measuring the impact of enclosure thermal bridging on whole building energy models
- Effect of thermal bridges on the overall energy use of residential buildings
- Evaluating component modeling
- Case studies
Thermal comfort modeling and its impact on building energy performance
- Current state of energy modeling
- Factors affecting thermal comfort
- Proposal for alternate method of energy simulation
Energy Code Compliance and effects of more stringent codes on envelope design
- Newest code cycles further drive down performance targets
- Architectural impacts of limiting glazing percentages
- Conceptual analysis for compliance to inform façades
Impact of façade components on its acoustic performance
- Acoustic performances of glazing: in-lab vs in-situ
- Impact of the façade components on its acoustic performance
- Acoustic performance of high-added-value glazing
Building Enclosure Commissioning - Process, Current State, and Future
- Commissioning and building enclosure commissioning
- Real-world commissioning experience
- Future direction of commissioning
Brief Presentations
Customized cost-efficient building skin design for industrial housing
Voxel-based computational morphogenesis in urban context
A tool to evaluate energy, environmental impact and costs
Energy-efficient building envelope design features in India
18:00 End of Conference Day 1
19:30 Conference Dinner 