Conference topics
The conference aims to give an overview of the most up-to-date applications of Building Simulation in the following fields:
Building physics: envelope and HVAC system modelling, design and operation optimization
- 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
- CHP and Renewables
- Building control systems
- Service equipment
Global performance and multi-domain simulation
- Building and room acoustics
- Lighting and daylighting
- Thermal comfort
- Acoustic comfort
- Visual comfort
- Indoor air quality
- Indoor environmental quality
- Net-zero and nearly-zero energy building
- Retrofit/refurbishment of existing buildings
- Commissioning and operation
- Urban modelling and District analysis
Methodologies, regulation, calculation and simulation tools
- Model validation, sensitivity analysis, calibration and optimization techniques
- Building codes and regulations, simplified methods versus detailed simulation
- New simulation tools and improvements in existing simulation tools
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to building performance simulation
- Approaches to improve simulation accuracy and representativeness of data inputs
- Weather data (typical and extreme), microclimate modelling, urban heat island effects
- Occupancy behavior
- Integration, interoperability web-based techniques, software development, open source initiatives, BIM
- Advances in teaching and education, eLearning