Building energy optimization in the early design stages: A simplified method

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 88-99

  Negendahl, Kristoffer ^a   Nielsen, Toke Rammer ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

BPS; Building design; Daylight; Early design stages; Energy efficiency; Integrated dynamic models; Optimization; Parametric; Simulation; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDINGS; COSTS; DAYLIGHT SIMULATION; DAYLIGHTING; DESIGN; DYNAMIC MODELS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL COMFORT;

BPS; BUILDING DESIGN; EARLY DESIGN STAGES; PARAMETRIC; SIMULATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84938871491     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.06.087     Document Type: Article

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