Outputs (71)

Opportunities for financing sustainable development using complementary local currencies (2019)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2019). Opportunities for financing sustainable development using complementary local currencies. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 297, Article 012023. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/297/1/012023

Financing building retrofit projects that contribute to climate change mitigation has always represented a significant barrier. With 28% of global emissions coming from existing buildings, it is of paramount importance to carry out retrofit measures... Read More about Opportunities for financing sustainable development using complementary local currencies.

Improving Building Energy Efficiency through Measurement of Building Physics Properties Using Dynamic Heating Tests (2019)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2019). Improving Building Energy Efficiency through Measurement of Building Physics Properties Using Dynamic Heating Tests. Energies, 12(8), Article 1450. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12081450

Buildings contribute to nearly 30% of global carbon dioxide emissions, making a significant impact on climate change. Despite advanced design methods, such as those based on dynamic simulation tools, a significant discrepancy exists between designed... Read More about Improving Building Energy Efficiency through Measurement of Building Physics Properties Using Dynamic Heating Tests.

Design Implications of Model-Generated Urban Data (2019)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2019). Design Implications of Model-Generated Urban Data. #Journal not on list, 16(2), 50-63. https://doi.org/10.17831/enq%3Aarcc.v16i2.1061

The staggering complexity of urban environment and long timescales in the causal mechanisms prevent designers to fully understand the implications of their design interventions. In order to investigate these causal mechanisms and provide measurable t... Read More about Design Implications of Model-Generated Urban Data.

Lessons learnt from design, off-site construction and performance analysis of deep energy retrofit of residential buildings (2019)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2019). Lessons learnt from design, off-site construction and performance analysis of deep energy retrofit of residential buildings. Energy and Buildings, 186, 319-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.01.011

The article introduces the process of deep energy retrofit carried out on a residential building in the UK, using a ‘TCosy’ approach in which the existing building is completely surrounded by a new thermal envelope. It reports on the entire process,... Read More about Lessons learnt from design, off-site construction and performance analysis of deep energy retrofit of residential buildings.

Modelling Computational Fluid Dynamics with Swarm Behaviour (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper looks at replacing the current top-down approach to modelling, predominantly used in dynamic simulation tools, with a nature inspired bottom-up approach based on principles of swarming. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is chosen for this... Read More about Modelling Computational Fluid Dynamics with Swarm Behaviour.

Designing Resilience of the Built Environment to Extreme Weather Events (2018)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2018). Designing Resilience of the Built Environment to Extreme Weather Events. Sustainability, 10(1), Article 141. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10010141

Built environment comprises of a multitude of complex networks of buildings and processes in and between buildings. The paper looks at resilience design on three different levels: the building, the site, and the region. The building resilience design... Read More about Designing Resilience of the Built Environment to Extreme Weather Events.

JEA, An interactive optimisation engine for building energy performance simulation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents the motivation, concept and implementation of a new interactive optimisation engine designed to be generic and be able to work with different building simulation tools. The key technological advances are the full interactivity and... Read More about JEA, An interactive optimisation engine for building energy performance simulation.

Changing the Culture of Building Simulation with Emergent Modelling (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Dynamic simulation models of buildings have been predominantly based on a top-down approach, which defines the system as a whole with equations, simplifies the representation to make the solutions computable at the expense of accuracy, and then seeks... Read More about Changing the Culture of Building Simulation with Emergent Modelling.

Designing zero carbon buildings using dynamic simulation methods (2017)
Book

Performance comparison between KNN and NSGA-II algorithms as calibration approaches for building simulation models (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, a study of calibration methods for a thermal performance model of a building is presented. Two calibration approaches are evaluated and compared in terms of accuracy and computation speed. These approaches are the 𝑘 Nearest Neighbour (... Read More about Performance comparison between KNN and NSGA-II algorithms as calibration approaches for building simulation models.