Description
When used appropriately, building performance simulation has the potential to reduce the environmental impact of the built environment, to improve indoor quality and productivity, as well as to facilitate future innovation and technological progress in construction. Since publication of the first edition of Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation, the discussion has shifted from a focus on software features to a new agenda, which centres on the effectiveness of building performance simulation in building life cycle processes.
This new edition provides a unique and comprehensive overview of building performance simulation for the complete building life cycle from conception to demolition, and from a single building to district level. It contains new chapters on building information modelling, occupant behaviour modelling, urban physics modelling, urban building energy modelling and renewable energy systems modelling. This new edition keeps the same chapter structure throughout including learning objectives, chapter summaries and assignments. Moreover, the book:
窶｢ Provides unique insights into the techniques of building performance modelling and simulation and their application to performance-based design and operation of buildings and the systems which service them.
窶｢ Provides readers with the essential concepts of computational support of performance-based design and operation.
窶｢ Provides examples of how to use building simulation techniques for practical design, management and operation, their limitations and future direction.
It is primarily intended for building and systems designers and operators, and postgraduate architectural, environmental or mechanical engineering students.
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Foreword to the second edition by Joe Clarke
Foreword to the first edition by Joe Clarke
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1. Building performance simulation - challenges and opportunities - Jan Hensen and Roberto Lamberts
PART I - Fundamentals
2. Thermal load and energy performance predication - Jeffrey D. Spitler
3. Ventilation performance prediction - Jelena Srebric
4. People in building performance simulation - Ardeshir Mahdavi and Farhang Tahmasebi
5. Indoor thermal quality performance prediction - Christoph van Treeck and Daniel Wölki
6. Weather and climate in building performance simulation - Charles Barnaby and Drury Crawley
7. Daylight performance predictions - Christoph Reinhart
8. Moisture modeling and durability assessment of building envelopes: recent advances - Aytaç Kubilay, Xiaohai Zhou, Dominique Derome and Jan Carmeliet
9. Computational modeling in architectural acoustics - Ardeshir Mahdavi
PART II - Design
10. The role of simulation in performance based building - Godfried Augenbroe
11. BIM and BPS: A case study of integration cost metrics and design options - Timothy Hemsath, Matthew Goldsberry and Joel Yow
12. Building simulation for policy support - Drury Crawley
PART III - Operational optimization
13. Building simulation for practical operational optimization - David Claridge and Mitchell Paulus
14. Modelling and simulation in building automation systems - Gregor Henze
PART IV - Systems
15. HVAC systems performance prediction - Jonathan Wright
16. Micro-cogeneration system performance prediction - Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
17. Modelling in building-to-grid interaction - Sen Huang, Thomas Sevilla Wangda Zuo
18. Modelling HVAC and renewable energy plant and control - Christopher Underwood and Simon Rees
19. A view on future building system modelling and simulation - Michael Wetter
PART V - Urban
20. Integrated resource flow modelling of the urban built environment - Darren Robinson
21. Urban building energy modelling - Christoph Reinhart
22. Urban physics simulation for climate change adaptation of buildings and urban areas - Bert Blocken, Twan Van Hooff, Yasin Toparlar, Christof Gromke, Hamid Montazeri and Wendy Janssen
