2014
Moving to a New World of Building Systems Performance
The 2014 Technical Symposium took place on 3-4 April in Dublin. Recognising that system and plant performance is a global issue this joint CIBSE and ASHRAE symposium gave a platform to best practice and research from around the world. All full papers were subject to a formal peer review.
Day One
10:00 – Welcome – Room A: George Adams, CIBSE President, SPIE Matthew Hall; Brian Motherway, SEAI CEO
10:20 – Opening Session – Room A
Chair: Mike Smith, BSRIA
George Adams, CIBSE President; Sue Illman, Landscape Institute President
09:05 – Parallel sessions
Session 2 – Room A: Building to meet the needs of future cities – Chair: Peter Reynolds, Executive Director of Innovation and the Cities Lab, Future Cities Catapult
Session 3 – Room B: The effectiveness of systems in use – Chair: Sean Dowd, RoI CIBSE Chair, Dowd Energy and Engineering
Session 4 – Room A Chair: Tim Dwyer, Chair of CIBSE/ASHRAE Technical Symposium
Poster pitch 1
14:00 – Parallel sessions
Session 5 – Room A: Benchmarking to enable improved building design – Chair: Ant Wilson, AECOM
Session 6 – Room B: The reality of setting “thermal comfort” – Chair: Rebecca Allen Delaney, ASHRAE New Face of Engineering 2014
Session 7 – Room C: Measuring and managing energy use to reduce impact – Chair: Dru Crawley, Bentley Systems
15:40 – Parallel Sessions
Session 8 – Room A: Practically enabling the smarter grid – Chair: Andrew Saville, Armville Consultancy
Session 9 – Room B: IBPSA Session: Mind the gap – Modelling towards reality – Chair: Malcolm Cook, Loughborough University
16:55 – Session 10 – Room A: “Cities are not Sustainable” Debate
Chair: Margaret Dolan, Ethos Engineering Consultant Engineers
North American Team: Larry Spielvogel, Consulting Engineer; Don Beaty, Consulting Engineer; Bill Bahnfleth, ASHRAE President
UK and Ireland Team: Richard Rooley, Rooley Consultants; Ant Wilson, AECOM; George Adams, CIBSE President
Day Two
08:50 – Session 11 – Room A – Opening by Bill Bahnfleth, ASHRAE President
09:05 – Parallel sessions
Session 12 – Room A: Balancing energy use with user expectation to enhance performance – Chair: Keith Sunderland, DIT
Session 13 – Room B: The urban truth of delivering sustainable cities – Chair: George Adams, CIBSE President
10:50 – Parallel sessions
Session 14 – Room A: Evaluating the performance gap – Chair: Andy Ford, CIBSE Past President
Session 15 – Room B: Modelling, diagnosing and enhancing the performance of ventilation systems – Chair: Maria Kolokotroni, Brunel University
AHU fault diagnostics using extended Modelica models – Gregory Provan, University College Cork, Ireland
12:30 – Session 16 – Room A Chair: Alex Smith, CIBSE Journal
Manufacturing Innovation – Martin Brown, Sales Manager, Medem UK
Poster pitch 2
Session 17 – Room A: Assessing and delivering designs that aspire to nothing – Chair: Bill Bahnfleth, ASHRAE President
Session 18 – Room B: Enhancing future buildings through intelligence and training – Chair: Tony Day, IERC
15:35 – Prize presentation and drinks reception in Aungier Street Campus
Chair: Hywel Davies, CIBSE Technical Director
Posters
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NOx emissions, and a new methodology for assessing emissions from Combined Heat and Power Plant – Huw Blackwell, Islington Council
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Earth Tube Systems: Tempering fresh air in a Canadian climate – Trevor Butler, Archineers Consulting Limited, Canada
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Genetic Algorithms help to optimise Passive Building Design – David Cocking, DesignBuilder Software Ltd
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A case study on energy management in a medical devices production facility – John Cosgrove, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
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A comparison of the CIBSE Guide A and TM52 overheating criteria for a range of building types – Claire Das Bhaumik, Inkling LLP
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LEDs are the panacea – and other fairy tales – James Duff, Arup, Ireland
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Novel techniques for modelling energy demand in the built environment – David Jenkins, Heriot-Watt University
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Why use Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for energy monitoring – Willie Lawton, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
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Energy efficient solutions for a new motorway service area in Northern Italy – Alessandro Sandelewski, ASC Engineering Srl, Italy
Development of predictive intelligent management system for monitoring and tackling air-borne infection in critical healthcare facilities in British hospitals – Ghasson Shabha, Birmingham City University