Conference topics
The conference topics, with reference to building simulation are:
Building physics: envelope and system components
- Heat and mass transfer modeling in buildings
- Building envelope systems and facades, and innovative building materials
- Air flow, natural ventilation and mixed mode cooling
- HVAC components and systems
- Building control systems
Integrated performance
- Building acoustics
- Lighting and daylighting
- Indoor environmental modeling: visual and thermal comfort, indoor air quality
- Net-zero energy building
- Retrofit/refurbishment of existing buildings
- Renewable energy technologies for buildings, district heating and CHP generation
Methodologies, regulation, calculation and simulation tools
- Model validation, sensitivity analysis and optimization techniques
- Building codes and regulations, simplified methods versus detailed simulation
- New simulation tools and improvements in existing simulation tools
- Integration, interoperability web-based techniques, software development, open source initiatives
- Advances in teaching and education, eLearning