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Since the establishment of the CAAD Futures Foundation in 1985, CAAD experts from all over the world meet every two years to present and document the state of the art of research in Computer Aided Architectural Design. Together, the series provides a good record of the evolving state of research in this area over the last fourteen years. The Proceedings this year is the eighth in the series. The conference held at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, includes twenty-five papers presenting new and exciting results and capabilities in areas such as computer graphics, building modeling, digital sketching and drawing systems, Web-based collaboration and information exchange. An overall reading shows that computers in architecture is still a young field, with many exciting results emerging out of both greater understanding of the human processes and information processing needed to support design and also the continuously expanding capabilities of digital technology.
Advances in computer technology over recent years now mean building
simulation can be used in the design process and even in the
construction and daily operation of most buildings. The techniques
are sophisticated and require a good deal of expertise, so
relatively few designers, builders and practitioners understand the
full potential of the field even though simulation can inform
design decisions, enable performance analysis and diagnostic
studies. This book should provide these readers with an overview of
building simulation and its current advancements, and a grasp of
current limitations and future directions.
Advances in computer technology over recent years now mean building
simulation can be used in the design process and even in the
construction and daily operation of most buildings. The techniques
are sophisticated and require a good deal of expertise, so
relatively few designers, builders and practitioners understand the
full potential of the field even though simulation can inform
design decisions, enable performance analysis and diagnostic
studies. This book should provide these readers with an overview of
building simulation and its current advancements, and a grasp of
current limitations and future directions.
Since the establishment of the CAAD Futures Foundation in 1985, CAAD experts from all over the world meet every two years to present and document the state of the art of research in Computer Aided Architectural Design. Together, the series provides a good record of the evolving state of research in this area over the last fourteen years. The Proceedings this year is the eighth in the series. The conference held at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, includes twenty-five papers presenting new and exciting results and capabilities in areas such as computer graphics, building modeling, digital sketching and drawing systems, Web-based collaboration and information exchange. An overall reading shows that computers in architecture is still a young field, with many exciting results emerging out of both greater understanding of the human processes and information processing needed to support design and also the continuously expanding capabilities of digital technology.
"Negawatt" is a theoretical unit of power representing an amount of energy (measured in watts) saved. The energy saved is a direct result of energy conservation, increased efficiency, or demand response. Unlocking the "negawatt" rests on our ability to quantify and improve the performance of the building stock over time. However, building stock energy models, particularly those accounting for both physical formulation and social behaviors of the underlying buildings, are still in their infancy. This book was written as a Ph.D. dissertation that strives to more thoroughly examine how buildings perform aggregately in energy usage by focusing on three major challenges: quantifying building energy performance in an objective and scalable manner, mapping the building stock model space to the real-world data space, and quantifying and evaluating energy intervention behaviors of a building stock. The proposed methodology can be used by energy policy makers and utilities to evaluate energy retrofit incentives and demand-response program economics.
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