Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation

Jan L. M. Hensen (Ph.D. & M.S., Eindhoven University of Technology) has his background in building physics and mechanical engineering. His professional interest is performance-based design in the interdisciplinary area of building physics, indoor environment and building systems. His teaching and research focuses on the development and application of computational building performance modelling and simulation for high performance. Roberto Lamberts is a Professor in Construction at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is also currently a board member of the IBPSA, Vice-President of the Brazilian Session and Counsellor of the Brazilian Council for Sustainable Buildings.

1 Introduction to Building Performance Simulation


Jan Hensen (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Roberto Lamberts (Federal University of Santa Catarina)


2 The role of simulation in performance based building


Godfried Augenbroe (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)





3 Weather Data for Building Performance Simulation


Dru Crawley (Bentley Systems, Inc., USA) and Chip Barnaby (Wrightsoft, USA)





4 People in building performance simulation


Ardeshir Mahdavi (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)







5 Thermal load and energy performance prediction



Jeffrey Spitler (Oklahoma State University, USA)





6 Ventilation Performance Prediction


Jelena Srebric (Pennsylvania State University, USA)





7 Indoor Thermal Quality Performance Prediction


Christoph van Treeck (Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Germany)


8 Room Acoustics Performance Prediction


Ardeshir Mahdavi (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)





9 Daylight Performance Predictions


Christoph Reinhart (Harvard University, USA)







10 Moisture phenomena in whole building performance prediction



Jan Carmeliet (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland); Bert Blocken (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Thijs Defraeye (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and Dominique Derome (EMPA, Switzerland)





11 HVAC systems performance prediction


Jonathan Wright (Loughborough University, UK)







12 Micro-cogeneration system performance predicition



Ian Beausoleil-Morrison (Carleton University, Canada)





13 Building simulation for practical operational optimization


David Claridge (Texas A&M University, USA)





14 Building simulation in building automation systems


Gregor P Henze (University of Colorado, USA) and Christian Neumann (Fraunhofer Institute, Freiburg, Germany)





15 Integrated resource flow modelling of the urban built environment


Darren Robinson (EPFL, Switzerland)





16 Building simulation for policy support


Dru Crawley (Bentley Systems, Inc., USA)




17 A view on future building system modeling and simulation



Michael Wetter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)