Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation

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

Biography

Jan L.M. Hensen is Professor in Building Performance Simulation at Eindhoven University of Technology. His teaching and research focuses on development and application of computational modelling and simulation for high-performance buildings while considering building physics, indoor environmental quality and building energy systems. He is, amongst other roles, Co-Editor of the first edition of Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation and the founding Co-Editor of the Journal of Building Performance Simulation.

Roberto Lamberts is a Professor in Construction at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. He is also currently a board member of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) and counsellor of the Brazilian Council for Sustainable Buildings. He is, amongst other roles, Co-Editor of the first edition of Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation and editorial board member of the Journal of Building Performance Simulation.