The Building and Fire Research
Laboratory studies building materials; computer-integrated
construction practices; fire science
and fire safety engineering; and structural, mechanical, and
environmental engineering. Products of the laboratory's research
include measurements and test methods, performance criteria, and
technical data that supports innovations by industry and are
incorporated into building and fire standards and codes.
Although their activities concern mainly about Fire research, there are lots of topics concerning the fire and ventilation simulation by CFD method. On their site they are lots of full length articles(downloadable as PDF or PS file) with subject search or categary search, and very useful links to other related sites. Highly consultable.
Department of Building Technology and Structural Engineering at Aalborg University, Denmark
Research fields
The research activities of the indoor environmental group are divided into two main subjects:
Air flow and contaminant distribution in ventilated rooms
Models and control strategies for energy consumption in buildings
Indoor Environment Department
Main Research Areas:
- Ventilation, infiltration, and thermal
- distribution systems
- Indoor chemistry
- Ventilation & indoor air control technologies
- Exposure and risk analysis
- Energy Performance of Buildings
COMIS Multizone Air Flow Model
Documentation, User Guide, Publication, User Group etc.. COMIS is in public domain.
COST G3 "Industrial Ventilation"
Advanced Applications of Energy Efficient Industrial Air Technology, Design Methodology
Advanced Thermal Technology Lab.
The major field of the Murakami and Kato Laboratories is environmental control engineering for building and urban technology based on both experimental techniques and numerical simulation methods.
Methods for predicting and controlling physical properties such as air flow, heat and contaminant diffusion and lighting through urban regions, around building complexes, within rooms and around human are studied. Research topics ranging from urban scale to human scale are pursued by Professor Murakami, those ranging from national scale to human space are done by Associate Professor Kato . Methods for controlling the physical environment of humans are studied from the view point of safety in disasters like fire and also from the view point of health and comfort in daily life.
The studies consist of following sub fields.
1) Measuring techniques of the physical environment of living spaces ranging from human to urban spaces;
2) Assessing and evaluating the environment and establishing design criteria;
3) Prediction methods using both experiments and numerical simulations of heat and flow and contaminant fields for living spaces;
4) Energy efficient methods for controlling human living spaces;
5) Synthetic and totaled assessment of the environment of human living spaces.
The SELIGER is an Information and Simulation System which is largely oriented to investigations in the field of fluid mechanics, heat/mass transfer and related disciplines. The SELIGER is being developed in the framework of a long-term project aimed at creation of a symbiosis system on which basis the user can get necessary information about physical processes of interest via their numerical simulation and in doing so employ data obtained and/or collected previously by the SELIGER user community.
SBI is attached to the Danish Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. SBI's main fields of research are architecture, housing and welfare, urban development and policy, urban ecology and sustainability, condition surveys and durability assessment, productivity, wall and glass structures, low-energy buildings, indoor climate including Moulds in Buildings, daylight in buildings, ventilation requirements and environmental impact from building activities.
Energy and Indoor Climate Division (e&i)
The division's research endeavours to provide knowledge and a basis for providing responsible building in terms of energy, indoor climate, environment and architecture, including development of methods and design tools to further significant reduction of energy consumption for heating and ventilation and also to reduce environmental loads caused by building from cradle-to-grave.
Recent and Ongoing Research(Energy simulation[multi-zone]approach)
Advanced Environmental Simulation
Product Modelling
Model Validation
Design Performance Assessment
Development of Modular Simulation Tools
Intelligent Front-Ends
Energy Monitoring, Targeting and Management
Computer Aided Learning
Building Performance Monitoring
Advanced Design / Modelling Concepts
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Wind Turbine Performance Assessment
AirBase
17. Indoor environment and energy, Department of Energy Engineering; Indoor Climate, Department of Buildings and Energy; International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy(links), Technical University of Denmark
18. Building Science at U. C. Berkeley***
Building Science at the University of California Berkeley is
dedicated to the energy efficiency and environmental quality of
buildings. Its underlying premise is that energy-use patterns and
environmental quality are related, and that this relationship
contains great opportunities to improve the built environment.
Building Science also has the objective of breaking down the
compartmentalized decision-making that now characterizes building
practice. Its research and teaching address the decisions made by
architects, engineers, specifiers, facilities managers, and
owners.
Such decisions are important, in that they affect:
building occupants (who on average spend over ninety percent of their lives indoors, and whose health and productivity is influenced by the environment of the workplace)
buildings' energy use (in aggregate over one-third of our nation's energy consumption)
building costs (one of the largest categories of the nation's capital outlay)
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