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Architecture of Biologically Grown Buildings (2020)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2020). Architecture of Biologically Grown Buildings

Despite the current challenges of climate change and overuse of natural resources, with buildings contributing to 30% of global carbon dioxide emissions, buildings are still designed or retrofitted using old and inefficient processes in a “business a... Read More about Architecture of Biologically Grown Buildings.

What Happens When We Sneeze: Self-Organised Simulations of Movement of Infectious Aerosols in Buildings (2020)
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This material is a supplementary content video for a peer-reviewed journal article entitled “Experiments with Self-Organised Simulation of Movement of Infectious Aerosols in Buildings”, published in Sustainability Journal in June 2020, https://www.do... Read More about What Happens When We Sneeze: Self-Organised Simulations of Movement of Infectious Aerosols in Buildings.

Experiments with Self-Organised Simulation of Movement of Infectious Aerosols in Buildings (2020)
Journal Article
Jankovic, L. (2020). Experiments with Self-Organised Simulation of Movement of Infectious Aerosols in Buildings. Sustainability, 12(12), Article 5204. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12125204

The ultimate aim of sustainability in buildings gained an additional new dimension as the start of the year 2020 saw a rapid worldwide spread of the infectious disease caused by a coronavirus named COVID-19. There is evidence that, in addition to per... Read More about Experiments with Self-Organised Simulation of Movement of Infectious Aerosols in Buildings.

Self-Organized Approach to Designing Building Thermal Insulation (2020)
Journal Article
Bharadwaj, P., & Jankovic, L. (2020). Self-Organized Approach to Designing Building Thermal Insulation. Sustainability, 12(14), Article 5764. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145764

Traditionally, the uniform application of thermal insulation is practiced within the built environment sector to achieve desired building regulation standards for energy efficiency. However, that approach does not follow the building heat loss field,... Read More about Self-Organized Approach to Designing Building Thermal Insulation.

A simulation method for measuring building physics properties (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Designing building energy performance with confidence requires accurate information on the properties of building materials and on assemblies of these materials. However, thermal properties of the building in use are rarely compared to manufacturers’... Read More about A simulation method for measuring building physics properties.

Cellular automata simulation of three-dimensional building heat loss (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Conventional design development and simulation
methods provide a top-down approach towards
exploration of design solutions. This research identifies
this limitation and presents a bottom-up approach
framework inspired by nature. Natural interacti... Read More about Cellular automata simulation of three-dimensional building heat loss.

Reducing simulation performance gap from hempcrete buildings using multi objective optimization (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Hempcrete is increasingly used as a construction material, as it provides stable temperature and relative humidity conditions in buildings. In addition to low energy operations, buildings built from hempcrete possess negative embodied CO2, absorbed i... Read More about Reducing simulation performance gap from hempcrete buildings using multi objective optimization.

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

Zero Carbon Buildings Today and in the Future 2016. Proceedings of a conference held at Birmingham City University, 8-9 September 2016. (2016)
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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.

Taking a Passivhaus certified retrofit system onto scaled-up zero carbon trajectory (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.