All Outputs (31)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bringing building simulation to a wider audience - A web based simulation and optimisation system (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Emergence-Based approach to computational fluid dynamics (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Zero Carbon Buildings Today and in the Future. Proceedings of a conference held at Birmingham City University, 11-12 September 2014. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Optimisation of zero carbon retrofit in the context of current and future climate (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Exploring the energy performance of hemcrete in affordable housing and future implications for carbon reduction in the housing sector (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A method for eliminating simulation performance gap in buildings built form natural fibrous materials (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A Method for Zero Carbon Design Using Multi-objective Optimisation (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Making It Stay Zero Carbon Through Climate Change (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Development of the human society and its technological, economic and financial systems, coupled with the population growth, has resulted in high interconnectivity between individual and corporate entities. These entities form networks of co-dependent... Read More about Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change.

A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The simulation performance gap is a discrepancy between simulated and actual performance of a building, occurring as result of differences between theoretical values in the simulation model and actual properties of and conditions in and around the bu... Read More about A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering.

Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a retrofitted Victorian house that has achieved carbon
negative performance. The house has been under detailed instrumental monitoring, external and
internal thermal imaging, and detailed simulation analysis. The... Read More about Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis.