Programme for Windsor 2008 Conference, with links to papers in pdf format.
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Proceedings of conference: Air Conditioning and the Low Carbon Cooling Challenge, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, 27-29th July 2008. London: Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings, http://nceub.org.uk.
AIR CONDITIONING AND THE LOW CARBON COOLING CHALLENGE |
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27th - 29th July 2008 Cumberland Lodge, Windsor |
PROGRAMME |
Sunday, 27th July 2008 |
Welcome by Fergus Nicol, NCEUB London Metropolitan University |
After Dinner Talk - chaired by Fergus Nicol |
Richard deDear, McQuarie University, Australia 52 Residential air conditioning, thermal comfort and peak electricity demand management Richard deDear & Stephen White |
Monday, 28th July 2008 |
SESSION 1: Lowering the carbon in cooling Invited chair: Stephen Turner (ASHRAE, USA) |
Richard deDear, CSIRO Energy Technology, Australia 53 Beyond comfort - managing the impact of HVAC control on the outside world John K Ward, Joshua Wall, Sam West & Richard de Dear |
Shahin Heidari, Tehran University, Iran 18 A big problem - an easy solution Shahin Heidari |
Ayub Pathan, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK 39 UK Domestic air conditioning: A study of occupant use and energy efficiency Ayub Pathan, Alan Young and Tadj Oreszczyn |
Satoshi Hashimoto, Daikin Industries Ltd, Japan 05 An energy saving method for air-conditioning system by using weather forecast Satoshi Hashimoto, Takaaki Matsuda, Hedeo Shinbayashi, Harunori Yoshida, Fulin Wang and Kazuhiro Shiota |
Eduardo Maldonado, University of Porto, Portugal 42 Assessing the improvements resulting from EPBD implementation in low-cost housing in Portugal: occupant satisfaction evaluation using comfort surveys and measurements. Petra Vaquero, Eduardo Maldonado and José Coimbra |
SESSION 2: Passive cooling Invited chair: Michael Adebamowo (University of Lagos, Nigeria) |
Kevin Lomas, De Montfort University, UK 34 Commissioning hybrid advanced naturally ventilated buildings: a US case-study K J Lomas, M J Cook and C A Short |
Becci Taylor, Arup UK 45 The first line of defence: Passive design at an urban scale Becci Taylor & Phillip Guthrie |
Agathi Sakka, (for Mat Santamouris), University of Athens, Greece 55 Experimental investigation of the air flow and indoor carbon dioxide concentration in classrooms with intermittent natural ventilation M. Santamouris, A. Synnefa, M. Asssimakopoulos, Livada, K.Pavlou, M. Papaglastra, N. Gaitani, C. Pavlou, D. Kolokotsa & V. Assimakopoulos |
Christhina Cândido, Federal University of Santa Caterina, Brazil 59 Natural ventilation and thermal comfort: air movement acceptability inside naturally ventilated buildings in Brazilian hot-humid zone Christhina Cândido, Richard de Dear, Roberto Lamberts & Leonardo Bittencourt |
Takashi Nakaya, Gifu National College of Technology, Japan 50 Use of occupant behaviour to control the indoor climate in Japanese residences (NOTE: version updated 26/7/08) Takashi Nakaya, Naoki Matsubara, Yoshihito Kurazumi |
Short presentations and posters |
Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University, UK 65 Assessing the potential of ground source heat pumps to provide low-carbon heating and cooling in UK dwellings in a changing climate Rajat Gupta and Robert Irving |
Amgad Farghal, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 07 Studying the adaptive comfort approach within a hot dry climate: a case study in educational buildings in the Egyptian climate Amgad Farghal and Andreas Wagner |
Bin Cao, Tsingshua University, PR China 73 Field survey of human thermal adaptability in transition season and heating supply period Bin Cao, Xiang Zhou, Li Huang, Yingxin Zhu |
Ahmadreza Foruzanmehr, Oxford Brookes University, UK 64 Towards new approaches for integrating vernacular passive-cooling systems into modern buildings in warm-dry climates of Iran Ahmadreza Foruzanmehr |
Lucila C. Labaki, University of Campinas, Brazil 44 Environmental comfort and energy use in public school buildings: case study in Campinas, Brazil Lucila C. Labaki, Doris Kowaltowski, Flavia E. A .Nogueira, Paula R. Pizarro |
Simon McKay, Faber Maunsell, UK 74 An analysis of a monitored ground source heat pump installed at the National Energy Foundations Phase II Building (NOTE: version updated 31/7/08) Simon McKay and Mike Wilson |
Boualem Ouazia National Research Council, Canada (Poster presentation only - author not present) 14 Improving moisture management and cooling energy use in residential buildings Boualem Ouazia, Marianne Manning, Mike Swinton, Hayssam Barhoun |
SESSION 3: Methodologies: Comfort and buildings Invited chair: Gail Brager (University of California, USA) |
Stephen Turner, ASHRAE, USA 58 ASHRAE's thermal comfort standard in America: Future steps away from energy intensive design Stephen Turner |
Michael Humphreys, Oxford Brookes University, UK 49 "Why did that piggy bark?" Some effects of language and context on the interpretation of words used in scales of warmth and thermal preference Michael Humphreys |
Atze Boerstra, BBA Consultants, Netherlands 57 Temperature variation in centrally controlled HVAC buildings and its impact on comfort and performance Atze Boerstra |
Toks Sangowawa, KOA Consultants, Lagos, Nigeria 20-22 Cooling, comfort and low energy design in warm humid climate: the case of Lagos, Nigeria Toks Sangowawa, Mike Adebamowo, John Godwin |
Michael Holmes, Arup UK 40 The problem of the summertime overheating prediction Michael Holmes and Jake Hacker |
Fergus Nicol, London Metropolitan University, UK 72 Suggestion for new approach to overheating diagnostics Fergus Nicol, Jake Hacker, Brian Spires, Hywel Davies |
SESSION 4: Modelling and passive controls Invited chair: Kevin Lomas(De Montfort University, UK) |
Paul C Cropper, Universities of De Montfort and Stuttgart, UK & Germany 31 Exchange of simulation data between CFD programmes and a multi-segmented human thermal comfort model Paul C Cropper, Tong Yang, Malcolm J Cook, Dusan Fiala and Rehan Yousaf |
Frédéric Haldi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Switzerland 32 A comparison of alternative approaches for the modelling of window opening and closing behaviour Frédéric Haldi and Darren Robinson |
Tomoyuki Chikamoto, Ritsumikan University, Japan 26 Air-conditioning control which considers human comfort corresponding to thermal environment change, and its energy saving effect Tomoyuki Chikamoto & Naoki Hashimoto |
Runa Hellwig, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Germany 23 The use of windows as controls for indoor environmental conditions in schools Runa Tabea Hellwig, Florian Antretter, Andreas Holm and Klaus Sedlbauer |
Noriko Umemiya, Osaka City University, Japan 29 Humidity and thermal control use of apartment occupants during summer-autumn in Japan Noriko Umemiya, Koichi Taniguchi and Ginjiro Inoue |
Hom Bahadur Rijal, Oxford Brookes University 33 How do the occupants control the temperature in mixed-mode buildings? Predicting the use of passive and active controls. H.B. Rijal, M.A. Humphreys. and J.F. Nicol |
After Dinner Talk - chaired by Yi Jiang (Tsingshua University, PR China) |
Ashok Lall, Ashok B Lall Architects, New Delhi, India 37 Preventive strategy for air-conditioning - A case for India Ashok Lall and Ruchi Parakh |
Tuesday, 29th July 2008 |
SESSION 5: Policy and fuel poverty Invited chair: Eduardo Maldonado (University of Porto, Portugal) |
Jacky Pett, Pett Projects, UK 15 Cold Comfort for Kyoto: the role of actors in reducing unconstrained demand for air conditioning in the domestic sector. Jacky Pett |
Roger Hitchin, Building Research Establishment, UK 10 The future environmental impact of room air conditioners in Europe C. Pout and E.R. Hitchin |
Márton Varga, e7 Energie Markt Analyse GmbH, Austria 48 Integrating low energy design into the first steps of the planning process - methodology and case studies Márton Varga, Gerhard Hofer, Margot Grim and Klemens Leutgöb |
Paul Tuohy, University of Strathclyde, UK 19 Air-conditioning: The impact of UK regulations, the risks of un-necessary air-conditioning and a capability index for non-air-conditioned naturally ventilated buildings Paul Tuohy |
Yi Jiang, Tsingshua University, PR China 71 What are the major factors on energy consumption for cooling in Chinese residential buildings? Yi Jiang, ZhaoJian Li, Rong Qin |
Short presentations and posters |
Adélio Rodrigues Gaspar, University of Coimbra, Portugal 35 Analysis of the performance improvement of building passive systems by the use of automation Paulo Filipe Tavares, António Gomes Martins & Adélio Rodrigues Gaspar |
Zhen Yu, Oxford University, UK 61 Hierarchical fuzzy control of low-energy building systems using fuzzy decision trees Zhen Yu and Arthur Dexter |
Agathi Sakka, London Metropolitan University & University of Athens, Greece 38 Thermal conditions and heat stress in low income households in Athens, Greece Agathi Sakka, Fergus Nicol, Michael Wilson, Matheos Santamouris, I Livada |
Doug King, King Shaw Associates, UK 01 An application of mixed mode cooling using Termodeck with CHP Doug King |
Richard deDear, Macquarie University, Australia 51 The Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI : Goal and state of COST Action 730 and ISB Commission 6 (Gerd Jendritzky, Philipp Weihs, Ekaterina Batchvarova, George Havenith and Richard de Dear) |
SESSION 6: Comfort surveys Invited chair: Michael Humphreys (Oxford Brookes University, UK) |
Andreas Wagner, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 16 Occupant satisfaction at workplaces - a field study in office buildings Elke Gossauer, Andreas Wagner |
Astrid Roetzel, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany 47 Evaluation of thermal and visual comfort in offices considering realistic input data and user behaviour in building simulation Astrid Roetzel |
Doreen Kalz, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany 28 Meta-analysis of twelve primary energy optimised buildings employing thermo-active building systems and environmental energy. Kalz, D., Herkel, S. and Pfafferott, J |
Maria Kessler, Oxford Brookes University, UK 69 After POE: Building shaping design Maria Rita (Maita) Kessler, Fergus Nicol and Manuel Fuentes |
Steven Firth, De Montfort University, UK 12 Investigating the thermal characteristics of English dwellings: Summer temperatures Steven Firth & Andrew Wright |
SESSION 7: Design strategies Invited chair: Sue Roaf (Heriot Watt University, UK) |
Gail Brager, University of California, USA 41 Occupant satisfaction in mixed-mode buildings Gail Brager and Lindsay Baker |
John Martin Evans, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 70 The Comfort Triangles: Influence of temperature swings on comfort with artificial cooling, natural conditioning and mixed-mode buildings John Martin Evans |
A. Borodinecs, Riga Technical University, Latvia 54 Reduction of cooling and heating loads using building envelopes with controlled thermal resistance Borodinecs A & Kreslins A |
Masoud Malekzadeh, Loughborough University, UK 08 Towards the integrated thermal simulation of indoor and outdoor building spaces Masoud Malekzadeh and Dennis Loveday |
Mansoureh Tahbaz, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 11 Effect of appropriate design on success of passive ventilated cooling: Case study of a semi-tall building in Tehran Mansoureh Tahbaz |
Jacob Hacker, Arup UK 67 Climate change in London: implications for passive and active cooling of dwellings Jacob Hacker |
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