Building: Van Dusen Botanical Gardens Visitors Centre, Vancouver
Goal – The goal of this project is to investigate modeling and analytical tools and methods to help architects & engineers analyze the benefits of natural ventilation and technologies, early on in the design process.
Paper IAQVEC 2019: IAQVEC 2019 VanDusen final June 12-2019
Methods:
- Real-time and historic systems and environmental data from the building management system
- Dynamic multi-zone airflow network simulation coupled with thermal simulation, calibrated with real data
- Indoor environmental monitoring
- Ongoing: chimney performance analysis (measurement, computational fluid dynamics)
Publications:
- Jean M-A, Upadhyay R, Flood C, Mora R. (2019). Assessment of Natural Ventilation using a Whole-Building Simulation Model: A Case Study of a Landmark Building. IAQVEC 2019 Conference, Bari, Italy, September 2019.
- Martins de Barros F, Mora R, Flood C (2018). Assessment of natural ventilation using a whole building simulation model in a case-study building, accepted for the Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA, Chicago, IL, USA, September 26-28, 2018. VD paper BPACS 2018
- Martins de Barros F, Mora R, Flood C (2018). Assessment of natural ventilation in a case-study building using the adaptive comfort model, accepted for the eSim conference in Montreal, Quebec, May 9-10, 2018.
Reports:
Pilot study investigation of the performance gap in high-performance buildings. Case study: Van Dusen Botanical Gardens Visitors Centre. Report Phase I – Observations of performance issues, and identification of research opportunities. May of 2018. Rodrigo Mora and Rohit Upadhyay.
