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IBPSA Education Webinars Series 3, 2021-22

Session-2: Chapter 4 (2nd Edition) People in building performance simulation – Ardeshir Mahdavi and Farhang Tahmasebi

Thursday, Dec 16, 2021, 14h00 CET, 18h30 IST, 13h00 UTC, 08h00 EST
by Ardeshir Mahdavi

Ardeshir Mahdavi  
Ardeshir
Mahdavi
 

The webinar is thematically related to Chapter 4 (authored by A. Mahdavi and F. Tahmasebi) of the book ‘Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation’ Edited by Jan L.M. Hensen, Roberto Lamberts.

Ardeshir Mahdavi is a University Professor of Building Physics and Building Ecology at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria. Professor Mahdavi has researched in the fields of building physics, building performance simulation, building ecology, and human ecology. His has contributed to research on building data ontologies, predictive building systems control, urban microclimate and urban energy modelling, probabilistic room acoustics methods, and models of building users’ presence and behaviour in buildings. Professor Mahdavi has published over 700 scientific papers and has supervised over 60 doctoral students. Professor Mahdavi is a fellow of IBPSA (International Building Performance Simulation Association) and the recipient of the IBPSA Distinguished Achievements Awards.

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Session-1: Chapter 1 (2nd Edition) Building Performance Simulation

by Jan Hensen and Roberto Lamberts

 
Jan
Hensen
Roberto
Lamberts
 
The first webinar episode of the series was held by Jan Hensen (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) and Roberto Lamberts (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil). The webinar was moderated by Prof Ana Paula Melo. the webinar provided a general view of the background and current state of building performance simulation and introduced the chapters of the latest 2nd edition of the book ‘Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation’.
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IBPSA Education Webinar: PENTATHLON, BS2019 Student Modelling Competition-2

Friday, Oct 25, 2019
by Tareq Abuimara, Luminita Dumitrascu, Michael Gutland, Larissa Ide and Adrian J. Soble

 
Tareq
Abuimara
Luminita
Dumitrascu
 
 
Michael
Gutland
Larissa
Ide
 
 
Adrian J.
Soble
 
 

IBPSA University is happy to present one of the best entries of BS2019 Student Modelling Competition titled ‘PENTATHLON’. Five students from Carleton University, Canada explained their entry during webinar. As part of the 16th IBPSA International Conference and Exhibition IBPSA organized a student modelling competition. The aim was to facilitate wider participation in the conference and to provide a competitive forum for student members of the building simulation community. IBPSA Newsletter Volume 29 No 1 and http://buildingsimulation2019.org/competitions contains more information about the competition.

The competition is set up as a simulation pentathlon and consists of:

1. Model and simulate the existing building;
2. Assess the buildings energy consumption and indoor environmental quality;
3. Redesign using retrofit measures to enhance the building’s performance;
4. Assess the building daylighting performance and visual comfort;
5. Optimize the building performance using previously assessed performance measures, parametric design, sensitivity analysis or multi-objective optimization.

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IBPSA Education Webinar: PENTATHLON, BS2019 Student Modelling Competition

Thursday, Sep 19, 2019, 21h00 (India), 11h30 (EDT US), 17h30 (Italy) and 15h30 (UTC)
by Clara Ceccolini, Nicola Franzoi, Silvia Ricciuti and Pietro Malavolta

 
Clara Ceccolini Nicola
Franzoi
 
 
Silvia
Ricciuti
Pietro
Malavolta
 

IBPSA University is happy to present one of the best entries of BS2019 Student Modelling Competition titled ‘PENTATHLON’. Four students from Free University of Bolzano & University of Trento will explain their entry during upcoming webinar. As part of the 16th IBPSA International Conference and Exhibition IBPSA organized a student modelling competition. The aim was to facilitate wider participation in the conference and to provide a competitive forum for student members of the building simulation community. IBPSA Newsletter Volume 29 No 1 and http://buildingsimulation2019.org/competitions contains more information about the competition.

The competition is set up as a simulation pentathlon and consists of:

1. Model and simulate the existing building;
2. Assess the buildings energy consumption and indoor environmental quality;
3. Redesign using retrofit measures to enhance the building’s performance;
4. Assess the building daylighting performance and visual comfort;
5. Optimize the building performance using previously assessed performance measures, parametric design, sensitivity analysis or multi-objective optimization.

The team vision to accomplish these five contests is to attempt the improvement of the performance of the palace, while also preserving as much as possible its artistic heritage. This has been possible implementing an optimization process that other than minimizing the energy consumption and maximizing the indoor environmental quality, minimize also the architectural impact of the retrofit. Moreover, to be consistent with the cost optimality approach suggested by the European Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD), the students used the net present value to guide the choice of the optimal retrofit among the Pareto front resulting from the optimization.

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IBPSA Education Webinars Series 2, 2019

Session-1: A Vision for Building Performance Simulation

Thursday, January 31, 2019, 14h00 UTC, 19h30 IST (India), 09h00 EST (East coast USA)
by Joe Clarke

Pieter de Wilde  
Joe
Clarke
 
In this inaugural session of IBPSA Education Webinar Series 2019, Joe Clarke will consider the future role of building performance simulation and suggest mechanisms to more effectively apply the technology and foster its collaborative evolution.

Joe Clarke is the Director of the Energy Systems Research Unit and BRE Centre of Excellence in Energy Utilisation at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is a founder member and past President of the International Building Performance Simulation Association and presently leads the organisation’s Futures Committee, which addresses the evolution of energy performance assessment tools.

His research interests range from the efficient utilisation of energy within the built environment through options for sustainable energy supply, considering the range of technical and social issues that impact on decision-making. His work involves the development and dissemination of software tools for options appraisal to help reduce energy demand, accelerate the take-up of new and renewable energy technologies, mitigate environmental impacts and improve human well-being.

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Session-2: ‘Building Performance Simulation and the User’ – Introduction of special issue of JBPS

Thursday, February 21, 2019, 14h00 UTC, 19h30 IST (India), 09h00 EST (East coast the USA)
by Clarice Bleil De Souza and Simon Tucker

 
Clarice Bleil
De Souza
 
 
Simon
Tucker
 
This webinar introduces the JBPS special issue on Building Performance Simulation and the User. We will introduce the emerging perspectives and approaches of this topic, and lead a discussion on the associated research directions and possibilities. This is the first webinar on this theme: subsequent sessions will be delivered by the authors of the papers included in the special issue.

Clarice Bleil de Souza is a Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer – UK)at the Welsh school of Architecture (Cardiff University), teaching architecture technology, research methods and coordinating MSc dissertations. Research interests in different aspects of design decision making: the use of digital tools in the design process, user-centric simulation, machine learning in design and community based design.

Simon Tucker is a Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer – UK)at Liverpool John Moores University teaching building physics, environmental design, and architectural design studio. Research interests in low carbon and sustainable building design, design methods, user oriented building simulation, performance of ecological building materials.

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Session-3: Performer, consumer or expert? A critical review of building performance simulation training paradigms for building design decision-making

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 14h00 UTC, 19h30 IST (India), 10h00 EST (East coast the USA)
by Sara Alsaadani and Clarice Bleil De Souza

Sara Alsaadani  
Sara
Alsaadani
 
 
Clarice Bleil
De Souza
 
In this webinar we present an overview of our review article, which aims to identify and discuss prevalent paradigms used to teach BPS in the building design context. Three paradigms, identified using a comprehensive and critical literature review methodology, are presented in this webinar; training the simulation ‘expert’ and training the architecture student to become either a ‘consumer’ or ‘performer’ of simulations. This is followed by a discussion of where trainees of each paradigm would be situated within practical project environments.

Sara Alsaadani is a Assistant Professor of architectural engineering at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (Smart Village Campus, Cairo, Egypt) teaching foundational design studios, environmental design and research methods. Her research interests include architect-engineer collaborations, collaborative design, bridging the gap between BPS and architectural design and interdisciplinary approaches in architectural education.

Clarice Bleil de Souza is a Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer – UK)at the Welsh school of Architecture (Cardiff University), teaching architecture technology, research methods and coordinating MSc dissertations. Research interests in different aspects of design decision making: the use of digital tools in the design process, user-centric simulation, machine learning in design and community based design.

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Session-4: A new approach to performance-based building design exploration using linear inverse modeling

Thursday, April 11, 2019, 10h00 EST (EDT), 14h00 UTC (UK) and 19h30 IST (India)
by Roya Rezaee, Jason Brown

Roya Rezaee  
Roya
Rezaee
 
Jason Brown  
Jason
Brown
 
This webinar introduces a new approach to performance-based building design. We will first have an overview of the complex, iterative, and uncertain nature of building design and establish requirements for integrated design-and-energy- decision making. We then propose a novel systematic data-driven method, based on linear inverse modeling, that generates plausible ranges for design parameters given a preferred energy target. The application of the proposed method in a case study shows that it is capable of helping designers/users make informed decisions regarding energy performance iteratively and confidently at the early stages of building design.

Roya Rezaee is co-director of Energy Lab at Perkins+Will. She has a PhD. in High-Performance Building, with an expertise in design and different areas of building technology including energy performance, daylight performance, parametric design, building information modeling (BIM), model-based system engineering, risk assessment, and data analysis in building performance prediction.

Jason Brown is a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia USA where he teaches building physics, facades engineering, environmental systems, and building energy modeling. Research interests include early design decision making and urban scale energy modeling.

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Session-5: Effects of real-time simulation feedback on design for visual comfort

Thursday, May 2, 2019, 16h00 UTC, 21h30 IST (India), 09h00 PDT/PST (Pacific time USA)
by Nathaniel Jones

Nathaniel Jones  
Nathaniel
Jones
 
How can we choose the building performance simulation software that helps its users make the best decisions? This webinar explores the psychology of simulation users interacting with two similar simulation tools and tracks the different patterns of design exploration, outcome, and user satisfaction that result. It focuses on the importance of accurate real-time feedback to enhance the abilities of designers and building analysts. In a study, 40 subjects with backgrounds in building design and technology completed two shading design exercises to balance glare reduction and annual daylight availability in two open office arrangements using two simulation tools with differing system response times, AcceleradRT and DIVA-for-Rhino. Subjects with access to real-time simulation feedback tested more design options, reported higher confidence in design performance and increased satisfaction with the design task, and produced better-performing final designs with respect to spatial daylight autonomy and enhanced simplified daylight glare probability.

Dr. Nathaniel Jones is a building scientist, educator, and software developer. He is currently an Advanced Technology & Research analyst at Arup and teaches building science at the University of San Francisco. His background spans architectural design, engineering, and computer science, with emphasis tools that aid informed decision making in early design. He is the developer of Accelerated, a suite of open-source GPU-based lighting and daylighting simulation tools used by architects, engineers, and educators around the world. Dr. Jones is active in the building science community and serves as chair of the International Building Performance Simulation Association-USA chapter’s Research Committee and the subcommittee on Emerging Simulation Technologies. He is the author of multiple journal and conference papers related to building energy and daylighting simulation, and he has regularly been an invited speaker on the application of parallel computation to building simulation.

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Session-6: Opportunities and pitfalls of using Building Performance Simulation in explorative R&D contexts

Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 13h30 UTC, 15h30 CEST (EU) 19h00 IST (India), 06h30 PDT/PST (Pacific time USA)
by R.C.G.M. Loonen, M.L.de Klijn–Chevalerias, J.L.M. Hensen

R.C.G.M. Loonen  
R.C.G.M.
Loonen
 

One of the promising use cases of building performance simulation (BPS) is its role as a virtual laboratory in research and development (R&D) projects that aim to bring innovative building components from an initial idea towards market introduction. This webinar will highlight opportunities and potential pitfalls of the use of BPS in this application domain. First, the characteristic properties of exploration-driven R&D projects are contrasted with more conventional BPS projects using a systematic requirements engineering approach. Then, the process and outcomes of three R&D projects of innovative façade systems are discussed. Finally, the lessons learned from these studies will be summarized.

Roel Loonen is an Assistant Professor at the Unit Building Physics and Services, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. His research and teaching focus on the development and application of modeling and simulation strategies to provide decision support for designing buildings that combine high indoor quality with low or no impact on the environment. Roel collaborates with SMEs in various R&D projects, aspiring to accelerate the process of bringing innovative building envelope technologies and renewable energy systems to the market.

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Session-7: Learning the fundamentals of building performance simulation through an experiential teaching approach

Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 09h30 Ottawa, 13h30 UTC, 19h00 IST (India)
by Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison  
Ian Beausoleil-
Morrison
 
It is relatively easy to train architects and engineers to operate BPS tools and to produce results, but there is considerable evidence to show that it is quite difficult to produce accurate results, even for experienced users. I believe that BPS suffers from a credibility gap and that its full potential will only be realized once we adequately prepare users to effectively apply tools with full knowledge of their applicability, modelling limitations, and default methods and data, and provide them the skill set to scrutinize their results. An experiential approach for teaching the fundamentals of BPS through a learning spiral composed of four modes of learning has been devised. The approach and the learning outcomes that have been achieved through each of the learning modes will be demonstrated in this webinar through examples extracted from the teaching of a semester-long post-graduate course.

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Design at Carleton University in Ottawa (Canada), where he heads the Sustainable Building Energy Systems laboratory. He is co-founder and has been Co-Editor of the Journal of Building Performance Simulation since its establishment in 2008. He has been a Director of IBPSA since 2004, was IBPSA Vice-President from 2006 to 2010, and IBPSA President from 2010 to 2015. In 2015 he was awarded the grade of Fellow of IBPSA.

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Session-8: Project StaSIO!

Thursday, August 8, 2019, 21h00 IST (India), 08h30 PDT US (Seattle) and 15h30 UTC
by Supriya Goel, Amarpreet Sethi and Aman Singhvi

Supriya Goel  
Supriya
Goel
 
Amarpreet Sethi  
Amarpreet
Sethi
 
Aman Singhvi  
Aman
Singhvi
 

About Webinar: For energy analysts, one of the most difficult challenges is condensing a great deal of data into an intelligible format so architects can understand it. For architects, one of the challenges in working with analysts is not knowing what performance-related questions can be asked and answered. A solution that connects both of these is IBPSA USA’s Project Stasio, a crowd-sourced, a public website that connects performance questions with graphics from simulation outputs that succinctly answers the question. This webinar will offer insights into Project StaSIO!

About presenters:
Supriya Goel is a Research Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her current research is focused on the development of building energy codes and standards and simulation tools for analysis of buildings.

Amarpreet Sethi is a Principal leads the Energy and Sustainability team at tk1sc.

Aman Singhvi is a New York-based Building Scientist with over 7 years of research and professional experience in building science and architecture.

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Session-9: An instructional design for building energy simulation e-learning: an interdisciplinary approach

August, 2019
by Elise Mendes and Nathan Mendes

 

IBPSA Webinar Special Edition

Building Performance Analysis: a brief book introduction

Thursday, May 31, 2018, 14h00 (UK), 09h00 EDT (New York), 06h00 PDT
(San Fransisco), 18h30 IST (India)
by Pieter de Wilde

Pieter de Wilde  
Pieter de
Wilde
 
This webinar will introduce the book ‘Building Performance Analysis’. This book is the second book that is endorsed by IBPSA. In the webinar, the author will give an overview of the content of the book, explain how it relates to the other IBPSA book, and provide some tasters of the deeper content of the work. The work provides a theoretical foundation for building performance analysis, explores different routes to analyse performance, and discusses how performance may impact the design, construction, and operation of buildings.

Pieter de Wilde is Professor of Building Performance Analysis at the University of Plymouth in the UK. He serves on the Board of IBPSA and is Chair of EG-ICE, the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering. He is a Fellow of IBPSA and CIBSE, and member of ASHRAE.

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IBPSA Education Webinars Series 1, 2016-17

Session-1: Introduction to Building Performance Simulation

Thursday, July 21, 2016, 14h00 UTC
by Jan Hensen and Roberto Lamberts

 
Jan
Hensen
Roberto
Lamberts
 
The first webinar of the series was held on July 21, 2016 by Jan Hensen (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) and Roberto Lamberts (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil). The webinar provided a general view of the background and current state of building performance simulation and introduce the chapters of the book ‘Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation’.
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Session-2: The Role Of Simulation In Performance Based Building

Thursday, Sep 1, 2016, 14h00 UTC
by Godfried Augenbroe

 
Godfried
Augenbroe
 
The second webinar of the series was held on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 by, Godfried Augenbroe. He directs the PhD and MS programs in High Performance Building in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. His research covers topics in computational building simulation, performance based design, uncertainty and risk analysis of building energy models. During session 2, he talked about Chapter 2: The Role of Simulation in Performance Based Building.
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Session-3: Weather Data For Building Performance Simulation

Thursday, Oct 6, 2016, 09h00 PDT (US West Cost), 16h00 UTC, 21h30 IST (India)
by Charles “Chip” Barnaby and Drury B. Crawley

 
Charles “Chip” Barnaby Drury B.
Crawley
 
The third webinar of the series is to be held jointly by Charles ‘Chip’ Barnaby and Drury B Crawley. Chip Barnaby, the President of IBPSA is a graduate from Harvard University and did his Post graduation in Architecture from University of California. Drury Crawley, Chair of Regional Affiliate Development Committee of IBPSA is a graduate from University of Tennessee and did his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He is now Fellow and Director of Building Performance at Bentley systems, Washington. The upcoming webinar will describe the weather data requirements of Building Performance Simulation (BPS) applications, how those data are represented and available data sources. They will also talk about how ongoing development of remote sensing (satellite) observations and climate modelling methods are improving data availability and quality
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Session-4: People In Building Performance Simulation

Thursday, Oct 20, 2016, 17h30 CEST (Austria), 21h00 IST (India),
08h30 PDT (US West Cost)
by Ardeshir Mahdavi

Ardeshir Mahdavi  
Ardeshir
Mahdavi
 
This talk addresses various aspects of people’s presence and behaviour in buildings and their implications for buildings performance. Specifically, it discusses the related modelling approaches and their utility in simulation environments for performance-based building design and operation support.
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Session-5: Thermal Load And Energy Performance Prediction

Thursday, Nov 17, 2016, 08h00 (Central US time), 14h00 UTC, 19h30 IST (India)
by Jeffrey D. Spitler

Jeffrey D. Spitler  
Jeffrey D.
Spitler
 
The fifth webinar will be presented by Jeff Spitler, Regents Professor and OG&E Energy Technology Chair of mechanical engineering at Oklahoma State University. Prof. Spitler is a fellow of ASHRAE and IBPSA, and a past president of IBPSA. This webinar will give an overview of what’s at the very heart of building simulation: simulation of the building envelope and heat transfer within individual zones.
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Session-6: Indoor Thermal Quality Performance Prediction

Thursday, Jan 19, 2017, 08h00 (Central US time), 14h00 UTC, 19h30 IST (India)
by Christoph Van Treeck and Daniel Wölki

Christoph Van Treeck  
Christoph Van
Treeck
 
The webinar provides an overview on human thermoregulation, thermal sensation and comfort perception. Influence factors and performance indicators for the assessment of thermal comfort in uniform and non-uniform environments are summarized. Comfort modeling and its use within the simulation environment is discussed at diverse levels of detail. We close the topic with the development and test of a new thermophysiological model implemented in the acausal modeling language Modelica. In this regard, we introduce a new type of comfort assessment system that can be used for the real-time assessment of local thermal comfort.
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Session-7: Daylight Performance Predictions

Thursday, Feb 23, 2017, 08h00 (Eastern US time), 13h00 UTC, 18h30 IST (India)
by Christoph Reinhart

Christoph Reinhart  
Christoph
Reinhart
 
This talk provides an overview of the use of computer-based daylight simulations for building and urban design. Following a review of the history of daylight calculation methods over the past 100 years, we will focus on the evolution of daylighting metrics from the daylight factor to climate-based metrics, interactive glare evaluations and emerging circadian alertness predictions. The presentation will close with a series of case studies ranging from façade detailing to urban zoning studies. Christoph Reinhart is an Associate Professor in Building Technology at MIT where he leads the Sustainable Design Lab.
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Session-8: Room Acoustics Performance Prediction

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 17h30 CET (Austria), 22h00 IST (India), 09h30 PDT (US)
by Ardeshir Mahdavi

Ardeshir Mahdavi  
Ardeshir
Mahdavi
 
This webinar addresses the acoustical aspects of the built environment. Starting from the foundations of building and room acoustics, relevant performance mandates and indicators will be presented. Specifically, modelling methods and tools in the area of room acoustics will be discussed.
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Session-9: Micro-cogeneration system performance prediction

Thursday, April 20, 2017, 15h00 UTC, 17h00 CEST (EU), 20h30 IST (India),
11h00 EDT (US Eastern time)
by Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison  
Ian Beausoleil-
Morrison
 
This webinar, which will draw from material presented in Chapter 12 of the Hensen and Lamberts book, will briefly describe micro-cogeneration technologies that could be used for concurrently producing electricity and heat within homes and then discuss some of the complexities of predicting their performance within the context of BPS tools. Models that have been developed and implemented within BPS tools will be presented, followed by a discussion of their validation and application.
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Session-10: Building simulation for practical operational optimization

Thursday, June 1, 2017, 14h00 UTC, 09h00 CDT(USA), 19h30 IST (India)
by David E. Claridge

David E. Claridge  
David E.
Claridge
 
Calibrated simulation is a powerful tool for practical operational optimization of building operation as part of the Existing Building Commissioning (EBCx) Process. This webinar will provide a brief overview of the EBCx process and then illustrate the use of calibrated simulation for practical operational optimization of building operation with case studies.
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Session-11: Building simulation in building automation systems

Thursday, June 22, 2017, 14h00 UTC, 16h00 CEST (Central Europe Summer time) and 19h30 IST (India)
by Gregor Henze

Gregor Henze  
Gregor
Henze
 
This webinar builds on chapter 14 of the Hensen and Lamberts book and offers a treatment of the role of building automation and control strategies in the context of building performance modeling. In particular, we motivate the use of models for the advanced control of building energy systems by offering application examples employing both simple and more sophisticated building and system models for both instantaneous and predictive optimal control applications. In particular, we present the model development, calibration, and reduction process applied to any linear time invariant building energy problem using lumped parameter analysis and state space representation illustrated in the context of a low-level model predictive control task. Further, we will introduce a taxonomy of control model categories, which have been applied to a range of demand side flexibility studies including price responsive control of commercial buildings for price arbitrage, demand flexibility of commercial buildings for automatic demand response, residential building distributed MPC for feeder load shaping, and integrated end-to-end modeling of electric generation and load to assess the value of load flexibility in both a residential and a commercial context. Several application examples will be reviewed as part of the webinar.
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Session-12: Integrated resource flow modelling of the urban built environment

Thursday, July 20, 2017, 12h00 UTC, 08h00 (Eastern daylight / EST – USA) and 17h30 IST (India)
by Darren Robinson

Darren Robinson  
Darren
Robinson
 
This webinar relates to chapter 15, on integrated urban resource flow modelling. After setting the scene, in terms of the rates and consequences of urbanisation and the associated need for models to support the formulation of policies, plans and strategies to mitigate adverse consequences of urbanisation, the nature of the integrated urban modelling challenge will be described. This will consider the range of principle urban systems to be modelled and the data and computational challenges that need to be overcome in this endeavour, as we strive towards the development of comprehensive and useful urban policy and planning decision support. Alternative urban building energy modelling strategies will then be described, placing particular emphasis on city-scale building energy modelling; comparing detailed microsimulation with the simulation of and extrapolation from building typologies.
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Session-13: A view on future building system modeling and simulation

Thursday, Sept 21, 2017, 11h30 EDT (Washington DC), 16h30 BST (London), 08h30 PDT (San Francisco), 21h00 IST (India)
by Michael Wetter

Michael Wetter  
Michael
Wetter
 
Buildings and community energy systems continue to require increased performance, provide services to the grid, and facilitate the integration of renewable energy and waste heat sources, while providing better comfort. Consequently, their energy and control systems are becoming more integrated and complex. Arguably, current building simulation programs have not been designed with these new and emerging requirements in mind. This talk therefore present technologies and open-standards that are well positioned to address these new challenges. It will explain underlying principles for modular modeling that allows reasoning about the system as well as formal manipulations of the model to address different applications, ranging from design to verification and operation of building systems.
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Session-14: Building simulation for policy support

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017, 17h00 BST (London), 12h00 EDT (Washington DC), 09h00 PDT (San Francisco), 21h30 IST (India)
by Drury B. Crawley

Drury B. Crawley  
Drury B.
Crawley
 
The role of building performance simulation in supporting building policy decision-making is presented through several examples. These include: (a) development and evaluation of building energy efficiency standards (b) setting building performance levels for utility incentives (c) evaluating potential impacts and direction for energy efficiency building retrofit programs, and (4) sector-wide technology performance studies. The critical role of building simulation in policy making is emphasized.
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IBPSA conference keynote collection series

IBPSA BS2021 Keynote 1: Thoughts of leading Industry

by Martin Dieryckx

Martin Dieryckx  
Martin Dieryckx  

​Building Simulation Conference BS2021 Keynote 1: Thoughts of leading Industry by Martin Dieryckx, General Manager Environmental Research Center Daikin Europe (Sept 1, 2021, Bruges),

Source Courtesy: BS2021 Organizers

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IBPSA BS2021 Keynote 2: Climate Change, European Green Deal and the Building sector

by Jos Delbeke

Jos Delbeke  
Jos Delbeke  

Building Simulation Conference BS2021 Keynote 2: Climate Change, The European Green Deal and the Building sector’ by Jos Delbeke – former Director-General of the European Commission’s DG Climate Action (Sept 1, 2021, Bruges)

Source Courtesy: BS2021 Organizers

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IBPSA BS2021 Keynote 3: Are “Low-Tech” buildings like the ‘2226’ a solution towards climate neutrality?

by Lars Junghans

Lars Junghans  
Lars Junghans  

Building Simulation Conference BS2021 Keynote 3: Are “Low-Tech” buildings like the ‘2226’ a solution towards climate neutrality? by Lars Junghans – Associate Professor at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (Sept 1, 2021, Bruges)

Source Courtesy: BS2021 Organizers

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BS2021 Keynote 4: Thoughts of leading Industry in the heart of the energy transition

by Leonie Assheuer

Leonie Assheuer  
Leonie Assheuer  

Building Simulation Conference BS2021 Keynote 4: ‘Thoughts of leading Industry in the heart of the energy transition’ by Leonie Assheuer, EU Affairs Manager at Viessmann (Sept 1, 2021, Bruges)

Source Courtesy: BS2021 Organizers

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BS2021 Keynote 5: Sustainable architecture is a conscious and sound approach

by Nguyen Hoang Manh

Nguyen Hoang Manh  
Nguyen Hoang Manh  

Building Simulation Conference BS2021 Keynote 5: ‘Sustainable architecture is a conscious and sound approach’ by Nguyen Hoang Manh – founder of MIA Design Studio, Vietnam (Sept 1, 2021, Bruges)

Source Courtesy: BS2021 Organizers

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IBPSA BS2021 Keynote 6: ‘Vision of a leading global engineering company, towards transforming society together’

by Daan Ongkowidjojo

Daan Ongkowidjojo  
Daan Ongkowidjojo  

Building Simulation Conference BS2021 Keynote 6: ‘Vision of a leading global engineering company, towards transforming society together’ by Daan Ongkowidjojo (SWECO) (Sept 1, 2021, Bruges)

Source Courtesy: BS2021 Organizers

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Episode-1: ‘The world needs building simulation : Are we ready?’

Wednesday, Nov 30, 2016, 15h00 UTC
by Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison  
Ian Beausoleil-
Morrison
 
​This webinar, a repeat of a keynote talk that was given at IBPSA-England’s Building Simulation and Optimization 2016 conference, makes the case for why the world needs building simulation. It then describes what we as a community need to do to rise to the challenge, and argues the need for reforming the ways in which we teach BPS.
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Building Simulation 2017: The Value of Energy Modeling to Owners and Architects

by Anica Landreneau

Anica Landreneau  
Anica
Landreneau
 
This talk described how HOK tracked both modeling costs and predicted energy savings for a selection of it projects over the course of several years. The results showed that energy modeling payback is typically one to two months. The cost of even extensive modeling is a fraction of the annual energy cost of a typical large building so it can pay for itself very quickly. (courtesy: IBPSA USA)
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Building Simulation 2017: The Challenge of Simulating Airflow in Buildings: Lessons from Oceanography to Aerospace

by Paul Linden

Anica Landreneau  
Paul
Linden
 
The challenge of simulating airflow in buildings comes from the unique combination of complex geometry and boundary conditions and the intrinsic dynamics of the air flow, particularly when buoyancy force and convection are important – as they often are. The talk illustrated this challenge by describing the basic types of ventilation flows and presenting different methods to simulate them. In particular, the possibilities and limitations of various simulation techniques discussed and some outstanding issues in airflow simulation described, together with some recent laboratory experiments and simulation results.
(courtesy: IBPSA USA)
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