scholarly journals Architectural Models as a Base for Reliable Early Stage Energy Simulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jack Steele
Keyword(s):  
Information Quality ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Performance Simulation ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Building Performance Simulation ◽  
Energy Models ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Architectural Models

<p>Designers from the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industries have shown a desire to allow for quantitative data to back up sustainable decision-making (Braasch, 2016). Methods and software used to reach this goal often do not provide all the information to make informed design decisions or require a complete remodelling of designs at each stage. These factors make Building Performance Simulation (BPS) feasible at early design stages, where it is most beneficial for Architects.  This thesis explores the current process to translate Architectural models constructed within a Building Information Modelling (BIM) environment into Building Energy Models (BEM) so that performance simulations can take place. Within the aim of exploring translation processes, the objectives were to document:  • Whether current processes can facilitate modelling of environmental building performance during early design, as well as during developed design?  • Whether there are any common problems or successful approaches that might form the basis of future improvements in the way Architect’s and consultant’s models work together?  This thesis has identified 19 translation processes from current literature and examined a range of representative processes for exchanging information between Architectural modelling and BPS programs. It concluded that translation issues can be classified into similar groups based on the overall processes used. The eight categories of issues can be used by future developers to determine their priorities in development, and those looking for a current solution can adopt one for themselves. None of the processes tested allowed for issue-free modelling of building performance during sketch design.  The two types of building translation schema evaluated in this thesis divided identified references between a dedicated and generalised approach. The dedicated approach of gbXML and the generic approach of IFC identified similar issues; however, IFC contained more of these problems because it communicates with all modelling programs at a lower information quality. Due to the generic approaches containing more issues that take longer to solve, it is currently more complicated to generate an energy model out of IFC data. While the gbXML schema can only provide benefits for BPS related translations, it is the most viable way to provide the service.</p>

scholarly journals Architectural Models as a Base for Reliable Early Stage Energy Simulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jack Steele
Keyword(s):  
Information Quality ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Performance Simulation ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Building Performance Simulation ◽  
Energy Models ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Architectural Models

<p>Designers from the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industries have shown a desire to allow for quantitative data to back up sustainable decision-making (Braasch, 2016). Methods and software used to reach this goal often do not provide all the information to make informed design decisions or require a complete remodelling of designs at each stage. These factors make Building Performance Simulation (BPS) feasible at early design stages, where it is most beneficial for Architects.  This thesis explores the current process to translate Architectural models constructed within a Building Information Modelling (BIM) environment into Building Energy Models (BEM) so that performance simulations can take place. Within the aim of exploring translation processes, the objectives were to document:  • Whether current processes can facilitate modelling of environmental building performance during early design, as well as during developed design?  • Whether there are any common problems or successful approaches that might form the basis of future improvements in the way Architect’s and consultant’s models work together?  This thesis has identified 19 translation processes from current literature and examined a range of representative processes for exchanging information between Architectural modelling and BPS programs. It concluded that translation issues can be classified into similar groups based on the overall processes used. The eight categories of issues can be used by future developers to determine their priorities in development, and those looking for a current solution can adopt one for themselves. None of the processes tested allowed for issue-free modelling of building performance during sketch design.  The two types of building translation schema evaluated in this thesis divided identified references between a dedicated and generalised approach. The dedicated approach of gbXML and the generic approach of IFC identified similar issues; however, IFC contained more of these problems because it communicates with all modelling programs at a lower information quality. Due to the generic approaches containing more issues that take longer to solve, it is currently more complicated to generate an energy model out of IFC data. While the gbXML schema can only provide benefits for BPS related translations, it is the most viable way to provide the service.</p>

scholarly journals Obstacles to the Automation of Building Performance Simulation: Adaptive Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) design

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuttasit Somboonwit ◽  
Amon Boontore ◽  
Yanin Rugwongwan
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Visual Programming ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Performance Simulation ◽  
Building Performance Simulation ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Building Integrated Photovoltaic ◽  
Building Information ◽  
International Publishing

Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) is one of the most promising renewable energy technologies. A BIPV system as a second layer of building envelopes is useful not only for the electric power generation but also for blocking solar radiation to reduce cooling load. This study aimed to explore the limitations of the automated BPS of an adaptive BIPV case study that its development conducted through a collaboration of a BIM software, a BIM-integrated visual programming environment, and a cloud-based energy analysis. The possible obstacles to BIPV design processes and the potential solutions have been discussed.Keywords: Automated Building Performance Simulation; Adaptive Building; Building Integrated Photovoltaic; Building Information Modelling; Parametric ModellingISSN: 2398-4287© 2017. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

scholarly journals A Review on Numerical Approach to Achieve Building Energy Efficiency for Energy, Economy and Environment (3E) Benefit

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4487
Author(s):  
Binju P Raj ◽  
Chandan Swaroop Meena ◽  
Nehul Agarwal ◽  
Lohit Saini ◽  
Shabir Hussain Khahro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Building Energy Efficiency ◽  
Performance Simulation ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Building Performance Simulation ◽  
Energy Economy ◽  
Building Energy Optimization

Increasing energy demand in buildings with a 40% global share and 30% greenhouse gas emissions has accounted for climate change and a consequent crisis encouraging improvement of building energy efficiency to achieve the combined benefit of energy, economy, and environment. For an efficient system, the optimization of different design control strategies such as building space load, occupancy, lighting, and HVAC becomes inevitable. Therefore, interdisciplinary teamwork of developers, designers, architects, and consumers to deliver a high-performance building becomes essential. This review aims to endorse the importance of Building Performance Simulation in the pre-design phase along with the challenges faced during its adaptation to implementation. A morphology chart is structured to showcase the improvement in Building Energy Efficiency by implementing Building Performance Simulation for different building energy systems and by implementing various energy efficiency strategies to achieve the 3E benefit. As a developing nation, India still lacks mass application of Building Performance Simulation tools for improving Building Energy Efficiency due to improper channelizing or implementation; thus, this framework will enable the designers, architects, researchers to contemplate variable building energy optimization scenarios.

scholarly journals Building energy performance assessment for existing commercial buildings with heritage values

2019 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 03018
Author(s):  
James Pow Chew Wong
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Commercial Buildings ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Performance Simulation ◽  
Building Energy Performance ◽  
Building Performance Simulation

The building sector accounts for 19% of Australia's energy consumption and around 23% of the greenhouse gas emissions. In 2005, commercial buildings in Australia were responsible for 10% or 26 megatonnes (Mt) of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. They are two effective ways to reduce the building sector's emissions, namely constructing new energy efficient buildings or retrofitting existing buildings. Due to the life expectancy of existing building stock the greatest reduction in emissions before 2030 could be achieved through retrofits. Building performance assessment and evaluation uses predictive modelling method to investigate and evaluate building performance in energy demands, thermal occupant comfort, indoor air quality, building retrofit options and many other related environmental and wellbeing aspects. This paper discussed the use of building performance simulation software to investigate the impacts of various retrofit options have onto energy performance of existing commercial buildings with heritage values in Australia. The research explores the use of thermal and airflow modelling in assisting understanding of building energy performance with various retrofit options applied to existing commercial buildings. The finding highlights the capabilities of building performance simulation software in decision making for building performance investigations.

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