Early history and future prospects of building system simulation
Kusuda, T.
1999 Proceedings of Building Simulation '99, Volume 1: 3-16
Kusuda, T., (1999), "Early history and future prospects of building system simulation", Proceedings of Building Simulation '99, Volume 1: 3-16.
Abstract:
In the USA, full scale computer applications for HVAC related problems started in the early '60s when the author was involved in the US government's projects to evaluate the thermal environment in fallout shelters by an hour by hour simulation of heat and moisture transfer process between human occupants and shelter walls under limited ventilation conditions. General building thermal simulations based on hour by hour calculations were started at that time by gas and electric industries. This led to the formation of the ASHRAE Task Group on Energy Requirements to develop a comprehensive hourly energy performance simulation of buildings as well as the APEC (Automated Procedure for Engineering Consultants) activities for cooling load calculation. These activities were linked to the four successful international symposia (Gaithersburg, Banff, Paris, and Tokyo) on the use of computers for environmental engineering related to buildings, the forerunner of IBPSA. A
Laboratory of Building Physics, Leuven, Belgium "...research and educational activities in the field of heat and mass transfer in building materials, building parts and buildings, the energy use in buildings, building installations and building acoustics. Also research in urban physics is part of our activities.
