Requirements specification to support BIM-based Thermal Comfort analysis

摘要：

　　2.School of Architecture,Planning and Environmental Policy,University College Dublin,lreland.Traditionally and during a building”s operation,thermal comfort levels are often evaluated using equipment that is expensive to purchase and maintain.Through advanced technologies,Building Information Model(BIM)and energy simulation tools,thermal comfort and its impacts can be evaluated at the conceptual and early design stages.The development of Building Energy Performance Simulation(BEPS)tools,through the implementation of BIM,will provide design teams with rich,comprehensive data to evaluate indoor thermal conditions in order to provide acceptable comfort levels.Current energy simulation models focus on entering data manually,increasing time and cost.BIM-based energy and thermal comfort analysis provides designers with the means to explore a variety of design alternatives,as well as avoiding the time-consuming process of re-entering all of the building”s geometry and HVAC specifications to perform an analysis.However,integrating BEPS with BIM-based building design tools is still limited,with one of the key obstacles being the lack of standardised methods for information exchange between the two domains.To address the needs and bridge the gaps,this paper aims to improve the information exchange process by describing data and information needed to perform thermal comfort simulation using a standardised format in order to develop a Model View Definition(MVD)for thermal comfort.This approach represents the data needed by building designers or operators to provide an acceptable level of thermal comfort in a typical small,single occupant office.Through analysis of the performance of the proposed approach,this work provides a standardised exchange of data from BIM to BEPS tools,such as EnergyPlus,using the Industry Foundation Classes(IFC)standard.

关键词： Thermal comfort Model View Definition (MVD) Building information modeling (BIM) Building Energy Performance Simulation (BEPS) Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)

作者: Fawaz Alshehri Paul Kenny James O”Donnell

作者单位: School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering,UCD Energy Institute,University College Dublin,lrelan School of Architecture,Planning and Environmental Policy,University College Dublin,lreland

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 中国环境科学学会室内环境与健康分会第八届学术年会( IEHB 2017)

会议地点: 重庆

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-10

在线出版日期: 2017-11-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）