Building performance simulation for design and operation

TLDR: In this article, the role of simulation in performance-based building modeling and simulation is discussed. But the authors focus mainly on the simulation of building performance in the context of building automation systems.

Abstract: 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)