Proceedings of BSA 2017, the Third IBPSA-Italy conference on “Building Simulation Applications”
08-10. February .2017, held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
| Urban Energy Computing: An Hourglass Model |  |
| Ardeshi Mahdavi, Neda Ghiassi |
| The Viability of Using Different Types of Recycled Plastic as Glazing in Windows | |
| Islam A. Mashaly, Yussra Rashed, Salah El-Haggar, Khaled Nassar |
| Implications of Increasing Daylighting in Deep Energy Retrofitting in Norwegian Shopping Centres | |
| Matthias Haase, Andreas Ampenberger |
| PV-PCM Integration in Glazed Buildings. Numerical Study Through MATLAB/TRNSYS Linked Model | |
| Hagar Elarga, Francesco Goia, Ernesto Benini |
| Dynamic Simulation as a Tool for the Analysis of the Interactions Among the Controllers of HVAC Systems | |
| Mara Magni, Jean Pierre Campana, Gian Luca Morini |
| The Benchmark of a New SIMULINK Library for Thermal Dynamic Simulation of Buildings | |
| Jean Pierre Campana, Mara Magni, Matteo Dongellini, Luca Morini |
| A New Methodological Approach for Estimating Energy Savings due to Air Movement in Mixed-Mode Buildings | |
| Francesco Babich, Malcolm Cook, Dennis Loveday, Rajan Rawal, Yash Shukla |
| On the Indoor Thermal Behavior of a Building with Cool Envelope Components | |
| Anna Laura Pisello, Veronica Lucia Castaldo, Claudia Fabiani, Franco Cotana |
| How Microclimate Mitigation Affects Building Thermal-Energy Performance in Residential Zero Energy Italian Settlements | |
| Anna Laura Pisello, Veronica Lucia Castaldo, Claudia Fabiani, Cristina Piselli, Franco Cotana, Mattheos Santamouris |
| Thermal Performance of Innovative Building Envelope Systems in Mediterranean Climate | |
| Maurizio Detommaso, Gianpiero Evola, Antonio Gagliano, Luigi Marletta, Francesco Nocera |
| Pitfalls in Weather Data Management Strategies of Building Performance Simulation Tools | |
| Livio Mazzarella, Martina Pasini |
| Comparison Among Different Green Buildings Assessment Tools: Application to a Case Study | |
| Benedetta Mattoni, Francesco Asdrubali, Giorgio Baldinelli, Francesco Bianchi, Fabio Bisegna, Luca Evangelisti, Paola Gori, Gianluca Grazieschi, Claudia Guattari |
| Integrated Numerical Analysis and Building Information Modeling for Cultural Heritage | |
| Elena Gigliarelli, Filippo Calcerano, Michele Calvano, Francesco Ruperto, Mario Sacco, Luciano Cessari |
| Weather Scenario Generation for Stochastic Model Predictive Control Using Vector Autoregressive Prediction | |
| Samuel R. Currie, Gregor P. Henze |
| Historical Buildings in Protected Areas in Italy: A Re-Design Study of a Rural Building | |
| Maurizio Cellura, Giuseppina Ciulla, Francesco Guarino, Sonia Longo |
| On the Cost-Optimal Design: Comparison of Quasi-Steady-State and Dynamic Simplified Methods of Calculation of H/C Energy Needs | |
| Ilaria Ballarini, Andrea Costantino, Domenico Dirutigliano, Enrico Fabrizio, Simona Paduos, Vincenzo Corrado |
| Static and Dynamic Strategies for Improving Daylight Use in Side-Lit Classrooms: A Case Study | |
| Vincenzo Costanzo, Gianpiero Evola, Luigi Marletta, Dario Panarelli |
| RC Building Modelling for Control Purposes: A Case Study | |
| Erica Zavaglio, Mario Motta |
| Architectural Integration of Photovoltaics: Performance Evaluation of Curved Modules | |
| Marco Lovati, Laura Maturi, David Moser |
| Validation of a PCM Simulation Tool in IDA ICE Dynamic Building Simulation Software Using Experimental Data from Solar Test Boxes | |
| Cristina Cornaro, Marco Pierro, Daniele Roncarati, Valerio Puggioni |
| Analysis of the Influence of Thermal Losses of the Recirculation Flow Loop in a Residential Hot Water Solar System | |
| Paolo Valdiserri |
| Calibration of the Energy Simulation Models using Tikhonov-Type Regularization: Application to a Residential Building Apartment | |
| Maja Miletić, Chiara Dipasquale, Roberto Fedrizzi |
| On-Site Measurements and Whole-Building Thermal Dynamic Simulation of a Semi-Confined Prefabricated Building for Heritage Conservation | |
| Francesca Frasca, Anna Maria Siani, Cristina Cornaro, |
| Comparison Between Simplified and Detailed Methods for the Calculation of Heating and Cooling Energy Needs of Livestock Housing: A Case Study | |
| Andrea Costantino, Ilaria Ballarini, Enrico Fabrizio |
| Effect of Blind Control Strategies on Energy Demand of Office Buildings and Melanopic Effect for Occupants | |
| Daniel Plörer, Matthias Werner, Martin Hauer, David Geisler-Moroder |
| Introducing a Hybrid Energy-Use Model at the Urban Scale: The Case Study of Turin (Italy) | |
| Marta Carozza, Guglielmina Mutani, Silvia Coccolo, Jérôme Kaempf |
| OpenBPS: A New Building Performance Simulation Tool | |
| Livio Mazzarella, Martina Pasini |
| A Comparative Study of Computational Algorithms Used in the Automatic Generation of Reduced-Order Models from CFD Simulations | |
| Thibault Marzullo, Sajjad Yousefian, Marcus M. Keane, Marco Geron, Rory F.D. Monaghan |
| Comparison of Direct Radiation Split Algorithms for Energy Simulation of Buildings | |
| Giorgio Lupato, Marco Manzan, Stefano Cirilli |
| Introduction of a New Dynamic Simulation Screening Tool to Support Early-Stage Building Design | |
| Marco Picco, Giorgio Ghisalberti, Gaetano Fabio Graziano, Marco Marengo |
| On the Influence of Storage Size and Management on the Consumption of Air Source Heat Pumps in High Performance Buildings | |
| Elena Bee, Alessandro Prada, Paolo Baggio |
| Energy Refurbishment of Social Housing Stock in Italy: Analysis of Some Scenarios from the Impact of Climate Change to Occupant Behaviour | |
| Leone Pierangioli, Cristina Carletti, Gianfranco Cellai, Fabio Sciurpi |
| Analysis of Simplified Lumped-Capacitance Models to Simulate Thermal Behaviour of Buildings | |
| Jacopo Vivian, Angelo Zarrella, Giuseppe Emmi, Michele De Carli |
| Measurement of the Impact of Buildings on Meteorological Variables | |
| Dasaraden Mauree, Laurent Deschamps, Paul Bequelin, Pierre Loesch, Jean-Louis Scartezzini |
| Improving Local Wind Estimation for the Automated Control of Blinds | |
| Dasaraden Mauree, Ali Motamed, Laurent Deschamps, Jean-Louis Scartezzini |
| Modelling of Complex Fenestration Systems – Validation Results by Long-Term Measured Data | |
| Martin Hauer, Michael Grobbauer, Stefan Holper, Daniel Plörer |
| Cooling Energy Needs in Non-Residential Buildings Located in Mediterranean Area: A Revision of the Quasi-Steady Procedure | |
| Roberto Bruno, Natale Arcuri, Cristina Carpino |
| Steady-State and Transient Simulation of a Radiant Heating System | |
| Fabian Ochs, Mara Magni, Michele Bianchi Janetti, Dietmar Siegele |
| Comparison Between Energy-Optimized and Cost-Optimized Design of Multi-Family Buildings Through Automated Optimization | |
| Maria Ferrara, Elisa Sirombo, Enrico Fabrizio |
| Effective Building Modelling for Energy Performance Contracting | |
| Alberto Giretti, Massimo Lemma, Miquel Casals, Marcel Macarulla, Alba Fuertes, Rory Jones |
| Integrated Energy Modelling to Support District Cooling Optimisation: Methodological Approach | |
| Francesco Passerini, Andrea Bassani, Pietro De Cinque, Raymond Sterling, Jesus Febres, Anna Magrini, Andrea Costa, Marcus M. Keane |
| The Development and Verification of a Computational Tool for the Evaluation of the Visual Accessibility of Architectural Spaces | |
| Dawid Wolosiuk, Harald Hofstätter, Ardeshir Mahdavi |
| The Diversity Challenge in Models of Occupants’ Presence in Buildings | |
| Ardeshir Mahdavi, Farhang Tahmasebi, William O’Brien, H. Burak Gunay |
| Accounting for the Diversity of Use Patterns in Representations of Office Plug Loads in Building Performance Simulation | |
| Ardeshir Mahdavi, Farhang Tahmasebi |
| A Comparison Between Numerical Methods for Evaluating Ground-Coupled Heat Pump Systems Performance | |
| Angelo Zarrella, Roberto Zecchin, Diego Guzzon, Michele De Carli, Giuseppe Emmi, Michele Quaggia |
| Data Transfer from BIM to Building Performance Simulation Tools: A Case Study | |
| Mirjana Bucevac, Ulrich Pont, Sigrun Swoboda, Ardeshir Mahdavi |
| A Comparison of the Performance of Two- and Three-Dimensional Thermal Bridge Assessment for Typical Construction Joints | |
| Ulrich Pont, Ardeshir Mahdavi |
| Comparison Between Simulated and In-Situ Measured Speech Intelligibility in the Multilingual Context of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | |
| Simone Torresin, Chiara Visentin, Nicola Prodi, Francesca Cappelletti, Andrea Gasparella |
| Simulation-Assisted Monitoring-Based Performance Evaluation of a Historically Relevant Architectural Design | |
| Matthias Schuss, Ulrich Pont, Mahnameh Taheri, Christoph Lindner, Ardeshir Mahdavi |
| Bio-Based and Recycled-Waste Materials in Buildings: A Study of Energy Performance of Hemp-Lime Concrete and Recycled-PET Façades for Office Facilities in France and Italy | |
| Chadi Maalouf, Carlo Ingrao, Flavio Scrucca, Tala Moussa, Caterina Tricase, Francesco Asdrubali |
| Case Study for Energy Efficiency Measures of Buildings on an Urban Scale | |
| Domenico Dirutigliano, Mark-Alexander Brüntjen, Christian Fliegner, Jérôme Frisch, Vincenzo Corrado, Christoph van Treeck |
| Investigating the Suitability of the WRF Model for Improving Prediction of Urban Climate Boundary Conditions | |
| Kristopher Hammerberg, Oscar Brousse, Ardeshir Mahdavi |
| On the Global Performance of Offices with Different Complex Fenestration Systems | |
| Anna Maria Atzeri, Francesca Cappelletti, Athanasios Tzempelikos, Andrea Gasparella |
| Sensitivity of WRF/Urban Simulations to Urban Morphology Parameters: A Case Study in the City of Bolzano | |
| Gianluca Pappaccogli, Lorenzo Giovannini, Francesca Cappelletti, Dino Zardi |
| Numerical Analysis of Thermal Bridges in Dynamic Conditions | |
| Alessandra Romagnoli, Costanzo Di Perna, Davide Barbaresi, Elisa Di Giuseppe |
| Building Integrated Photovoltaics/Thermal (BIPV/T) System: A New Dynamic Simulation Model and a Case Study | |
| Andreas Athienitis, Giovanni Barone, Annamaria Buonomano, Adolfo Palombo |
| Buildings Integrated Phase Change Materials: Modelling and Validation of a Novel Tool for the Energy Performance Analysis | |
| Giovanni Avagliano, Annamaria Buonomano, Maurizio Cellura, Vasken Dermardiros, Francesco Guarino, Adolfo Palombo |
| From Energy Signature to Cluster Analysis: Comparison Between Different Clustering Algorithms | |
| Lorenza Pistore, Giovanni Pernigotto, Francesca Cappelletti, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Andrea Gasparella |
| The Building Information Model and the IFC Standard: Analysis of the Characteristics Necessary for the Acoustic and Energy Simulation of Buildings | |
| Costantino Carlo Mastino, Roberto Baccoli, Andrea Frattolillo, Martino Marini, Antonino Di Bella, Valerio Da Pos |
| Mapping Savings in Energy Demand by Heat Recovery for European Countries Under Consideration of Humidity Control | |
| Stefanie Tafelmeier, Giovanni Pernigotto, Andrea Gasparella |
| Calibrated Simulation Models for Indoor Comfort Assessment: The Case of a Healthcare Facility in Vienna | |
| Luca Zaniboni, Giovanni Pernigotto, Matthias Schuß, Kristina Kiesel, Andrea Gasparella, Ardeshir Mahdavi |
| Temporal and Spatial Predictability of Occupants’ Presences in a Library Building | |
| Ki Uhn Ahn, Won Jun Suh, Cheol Soo Park |
| Stochastic Multi-Criteria Decision Making of Energy Recovery Ventilation Systems using Cumulative Prospect Theory | |
| Young Jin Kim |
| Proposing a Life Cycle Energy Efficiency Index for Comparative Assessment of Insulation Materials’ Performance | |
| Hashem Amini Toosi, Ali Vakili-Ardebili, Nasim Hasheminejad |
| Development of a Design Numerical Model of a Hybrid Cooler | |
| Matteo D’Antoni, Roberto Fedrizzi |
| Selecting Roller Shades Properties Based on Glare Mitigation, Energy Performance and Connection to the Outdoors | |
| Iason Konstantzos, Athanasios Tzempelikos |
| Dynamic Simulation of the Influence of Fenestration on Buildings Energy Consumption. A Comparison Between Northern and Southern Europe | |
| Angelo Spena, Viola Iaria, Carlo Mazzenga |
| A New Control Strategy for Variable Refrigerant Flow Systems | |
| Xiaojie Lin, Yunho Hwang, Reinhard Radermacher, Byungsoon Kim |
| Development of an Energy Performance Benchmark Using Quantitative Analysis of Energy Consumption of Office Buildings | |
| HyeGi Kim, SunSook Kim |
| Parametric Technical and Economic Analysis of Thermal Comfort and Productivity in Industrial Buildings | |
| Mariantonietta Tarantini, Giovanni Pernigotto, Fabian Ochs, Andrea Gasparella |
