"Virtual Design Studio"-Part 2: Introduction to overall and software framework

Building Simulation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 253-268

  Zhang, Jianshun ^a   Michael Pelken, P ^b   Chen, Yixing ^a   Rice, Daniel J ^a   Meng, Zhaozhou ^a   Semahegn, Shewangizaw ^a   Gu, Lixing ^c   Henderson, Hugh ^d   Feng, Wei ^a   Ling, Francesca ^b  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d CDH Energy Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

building simulations; design studio; green building design; integrated design; modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880102923     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-013-0111-1     Document Type: Article

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