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Building Performance Simulation

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is Enrich the student's basic knowledge about building environmental simulation. Through developing student's ability to use most popular simulation software to generate maps that assess building status. and train students to specify major simulation workflow for each environmental aspects through defining the problems due to simulation variables, and assume proper treatments and do the simulation for the second time (and continue in loops to meet the required values defined by codes)
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Responsible Consumption and Production

Requirements

ARC242

Description

  • English Description

    The course introduces the basic concept of simulation with its main requirements. Through the course, student knows about different simulation programs, their required inputs, outputs and level of accuracy. In addition, student specifically learns to use specific software acquiring the expertise of Modeling spaces or buildings, ascribing their relevant features and environmental factors, and extracting the required performance parameters from the software outputs which (s)he can judge, therefore change design parameters and re-run the simulation to optimize the predicted performance
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (10) + tr.Major Assessment (50 = tr.Industry 10% , tr.Project 30% , tr.Self_learning 10% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (35)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
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  • - Beausoleil-Morrison, Ian. (2020). Fundamentals of Building Performance Simulation. 10.1201/9781003055273.
  • - Hensen, Jan & Lamberts, Roberto. (2011). Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation.
  • - Thomopoulos, Nick. (2013). Essentials of Monte Carlo simulation: Statistical methods for building simulation models. 10.1007/978-1-4614-6022-0.