Publications
Final Task Management Report
May 2008 - PDF 0.12MB
By: Ron Judkoff
Empirical Validations of Shading/Daylighting/Load
Interactions in Building Energy Simulation Tools
August 2007 - PDF 3.48MB
By: Peter Loutzenhiser, Heinrich Manz and Gregory Maxwell
These studies are some of the most detailed empirical validations of
solar gain models implemented in building energy simulation programs.
The purpose of this project was to create data sets for use when
evaluating the accuracies of models for glazing units and windows with
and without shading devices. Program outputs were compared with
experiments performed at an outdoor test cell in Switzerland and a
facility in the United States. The authors’ intention is that the data
are widely used by program developers and modelers for future validation
efforts.
EMPA Exercises
ERS Daylighting Experiments
Modelers' Reports
Double Skin Facades: A Literature Survey
2006 - PDF 2.61MB
By: Harris Poirazis
This report describes the concept of Double Skin Façades (DSF) based on
different sources of literature and includes an extensive description of
modeling approaches and methods for DSF including airflow and thermal
simulations. The concept of DSF is complicated and its use and function
affect different parameters of the building so the literature studied
came from many different fields.
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