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Reducing simulation performance gap from hempcrete buildings using multi objective optimization (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Bana, A., & Jankovic, L. (2019). Reducing simulation performance gap from hempcrete buildings using multi objective optimization. . https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210914

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)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2019). A simulation method for measuring building physics properties. . https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210213

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)
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.

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.

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.

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.

Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2013). Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 (337-346). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00395-5_44

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.

Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., & Huws, H. (2013). Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis. In Proceedings of Sustainable procurement in urban regeneration and renovation

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.

A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2013). A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering. In Proceedings of BS 2013: 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (3729-3736). https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2013.1387

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.

Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Huws, H., & Jankovic, L. (2013). Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house. In Proceedings of BS 2013: 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (1357-1364). https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2013.2116

The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a retrofitted Victorian house that has achieved carbon negative performance. Future predictions of temperatures are showing an increase in Cooling Degree Days (CCD), even under a low carbon emissions scenario. This... Read More about Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house.

Simulation experiments with Birmingham Zero Carbon House and optimisation in the context of climate change (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., & Huws, H. (2012). Simulation experiments with Birmingham Zero Carbon House and optimisation in the context of climate change. In Proceedings of BSO Conference 2012: 1st Conference of IBPSA-England (65-72)

The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a Victorian house that has achieved carbon negative performance through retrofit. The house has been extensively simulated in parallel with detailed instrumental monitoring. A dynamic simulation model of the house... Read More about Simulation experiments with Birmingham Zero Carbon House and optimisation in the context of climate change.