Design analysis integration: supporting the selection of energy saving building components

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

“…Taking a risk however also offers opportunities, but such high ambition levels need to be supported by well-informed design decisions. To allow CABS to move away from an abstract concept to become a feasible design alternative demands for tools that are capable of genuinely predicting operational performance in the building design stage [108]. In turn, this increases transparency about how performance benefits during operation might outweigh fist cost arguments, and helps to overcome the cautious attitude introduced by the 'anchoring' bias towards prescriptive and standard design solutions [109].…”

Simulation-based support for product development of innovative building envelope components

“…climatic conditions, occupants' behavior). Component-level 4 performance metrics like U-value and solar heat gain coefficient, which are 5 determined under a single set of standard test conditions, can capture this 6 type of complexity only partially [48,49]. In many situations, good design 7 solutions are those that find a balanced trade-off point considering the 8 multitude of competing performance criteria over the whole building life cycle 9 [50,51].…”

Identification of the building parameters that influence heating and cooling energy loads for apartment buildings in hot-humid climates

“…The application of the optimum shape and orientation and other passive design techniques to improve the energy efficiency of apartment buildings in more densely populated areas may not always be possible or easy. However, an existing study has demonstrated that the improvement of energy performance in buildings is possible by focusing on appropriate building parameters, despite the negative effect of mandatory decisions [3]. It has been demonstrated that the important decisions about the energy profile of a building are mostly related to its building parameters.…”