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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)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2018). Modelling Computational Fluid Dynamics with Swarm Behaviour. In Proceedings of the 4th IBPSA-England Conference on Building Simulation and Optimization (112-118)

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)
Conference Proceeding
Zhang, Y., & Jankovic, L. (2017). JEA, An interactive optimisation engine for building energy performance simulation. In Proceedings of Building Simulation 2017 : 15th Conference of IBPSA (2232-2241). https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2017.607

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)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2017). Changing the Culture of Building Simulation with Emergent Modelling. . https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2017.062

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.

Performance comparison between KNN and NSGA-II algorithms as calibration approaches for building simulation models (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Basurra, S., & Jankovic, L. (2016). Performance comparison between KNN and NSGA-II algorithms as calibration approaches for building simulation models. In Proceedings of the 3rd IBPSA-England Conference BSO 2016 (289-296)

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.

Taking a Passivhaus certified retrofit system onto scaled-up zero carbon trajectory (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., & Basurra, S. (2016). Taking a Passivhaus certified retrofit system onto scaled-up zero carbon trajectory. In Proceedings of Zero Carbon Buildings Today and in the Future 2016

The paper describes collaboration a between industryand academia in enhancing a Passivhaus certifiedsystem for retrofit and putting it onto a zero carbontrajectory. The system was initially developed for onsite stick construction, using fixed insulat... Read More about Taking a Passivhaus certified retrofit system onto scaled-up zero carbon trajectory.

Reducing simulation performance gap in hemp-lime buildings using fourier filtering (2016)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2016). Reducing simulation performance gap in hemp-lime buildings using fourier filtering. Sustainability, 8(9), Article 864. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8090864

Mainstream dynamic simulation tools used by designers do not have a built-in capability to accurately simulate the effect of hemp-lime on building temperature and relative humidity. Due to the specific structure of hemp-lime, heat travels via a maze... Read More about Reducing simulation performance gap in hemp-lime buildings using fourier filtering.

Emergence-Based approach to computational fluid dynamics (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2015). Emergence-Based approach to computational fluid dynamics. In Proceedings of Building Simulation 2015 : 14th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (50-57)

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling
requires considerable user preparation time and
considerable CPU time for reproducing the simplest
of behaviours of air movement in and around
buildings. This is due to the top-down approach to
modell... Read More about Emergence-Based approach to computational fluid dynamics.

The use of optimisation in the calibration of building simulation models (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Basurra, S., Jankovic, L., & Huws, H. (2015). The use of optimisation in the calibration of building simulation models. In Proceedings of Building Simulation 2015: 14th Conference of IBPSA (2905-2912)

In this paper, a model-assisted calibration is proposed in order to reduce performance gap of simulation models, being the estimated differences between the predicted performance of the simulation model and the actual performance of the building. We... Read More about The use of optimisation in the calibration of building simulation models.

Energy and Comfort Modelling Tools (2015)
Book Chapter
Jankovic, L. (2015). Energy and Comfort Modelling Tools. In S. Burton (Ed.), Sustainable Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings : Cool Climates. (1). Abingdon: Routledge

Bringing building simulation to a wider audience - A web based simulation and optimisation system (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Basurra, S., & Jankovic, L. (2015). Bringing building simulation to a wider audience - A web based simulation and optimisation system. In Proceedings of Building Simulation 2015 : 14th Conference of IBPSA (1962-1969)

The paper describes the development of a new web based expert system that uses jEPlus+EA and EnergyPlus as core engines for finding optimum solutions for retrofit of zero carbon design of buildings. The main goal is to scale up the use of building si... Read More about Bringing building simulation to a wider audience - A web based simulation and optimisation system.