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Essay:
Building simulation - current statue"Over the past two decades, the building simulation discipline has matured into a field that offers unique expertise, methods and tools for building performance evaluation. It draws its underlying theories from diverse disciplines, mainly from physics, mathematics, material science, biophysics, human behavioral, environmental and computational sciences. The theoretical challenges are bountiful when one recognizes that the physical state of a building is the result of the complex interaction of a very large set of physical components. The integration of these interactions in one behavioral simulation poses major modeling and computational challenges. Its ability to deal with the resulting complexity of scale and diversity of component interactions has gained building simulation a uniquely recognized role in the prediction, assessment and verification of building performance. The building simulation discipline is continuously evolving and maturing and improvements are continuously taking place in model robustness and fidelity. As a result, the discussion has shifted from the old agenda that focused on software features to a new agenda that focuses on the effectiveness of and team based control over simulation tools in building life cycle processes." Editorial: Simulation for better building design by Godfried Augenbroe, a and Jan Hensen in Journal: Building and Environment 2004.9
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