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

• It’s not easy being Green: Walgreen’s net-zero energy store – Benjamin Skelton, cycloneENERGYgroup, USA
• The solar house: A true low carbon solution for 2016? – Andrew Wright, De Montfort University
• A cost optimal assessment of buildings in Ireland using Directive 2010/31/EU of the Energy Performance of Buildings (Recast) – Chris Pountney, AECOM
• Economic and environmental target-setting for innovative building products and systems: Using high performance pigments as an example – David Churcher, BSRIA

Session 3 – Room B: The effectiveness of systems in use – Chair: Sean Dowd, RoI CIBSE Chair, Dowd Energy and Engineering

• VRF Systems and Failures: The Role of the System Designer – David Arnold, London South Bank University
• Electrochromic Glazing: Avoiding the Blues – John Mardaljevic, Loughborough University
• Evaluating the effectiveness of electrochemical disinfection to control Pseudomonas and Legionella in hot water systems – Giovanna Cossali, Brunel University
• Improving energy efficiency in legacy building systems – Sean Giblin, Cylon Active Energy, Ireland

Session 4 – Room A Chair: Tim Dwyer, Chair of CIBSE/ASHRAE Technical Symposium

Poster pitch 1

• Natural personalised ventilation for hospital wards: Experimental validation - Stephen Todd, Loughborough University
• NOx emissions, and a new methodology for assessing emissions from Combined Heat and Power Plant - Huw Blackwell, Islington Council
• Earth Tube Systems: Tempering fresh air in a Canadian climate - Trevor Butler, Archineers Consulting Ltd
• Genetic Algorithms help to captimise Passive Building Design - David Cocking, DesignBuilder Software Ltd
• A comparison of the CIBSE Guide A and TM52 overheating criteria for a range of building types - Claire Das Bhaumik, Inkling LLP

14:00 – Parallel sessions

Session 5 – Room A: Benchmarking to enable improved building design – Chair: Ant Wilson, AECOM

• Tailored energy benchmarks for offices and schools, and their wider potential – Bill Bordass, Usable Buildings Trust
• Embracing variations in patterns of use, pre and post design phase, to improve tenant energy performance – Emma Morton, University of Strathclyde
• A review of energy benchmarks in the Northern Ireland public estate – Phil Jones, Building Energy Solutions

Session 6 – Room B: The reality of setting “thermal comfort” – Chair: Rebecca Allen Delaney, ASHRAE New Face of Engineering 2014

• Airport terminal buildings: Indoor or transitional spaces? – Alkis Kotopouleas, University of Kent
• Comparison of CIBSE thermal comfort assessments with SAP overheating assessments and implications for designers – Ashley Bateson, Hoare Lea

Session 7 – Room C: Measuring and managing energy use to reduce impact – Chair: Dru Crawley, Bentley Systems

• Challenges of energy management in industry – Angela Rolfe, University of Ulster
• EDVE: An energy diagnosis visualization environment – Luis Blanes Restoy, National University of Ireland
• Measured energy use and power demands in European HVAC components – Ian Knight, Cardiff University

15:40 – Parallel Sessions

Session 8 – Room A: Practically enabling the smarter grid – Chair: Andrew Saville, Armville Consultancy

• London’s Zero Carbon energy resource: Secondary heat – Chris Grainger, Buro Happold
• Using standby generators in support of an electricity network: Logistics and experience – Laura Daniels, University of Reading
• Developing building archetypes for electrical load shifting assessment: Analysis of Irish residential stock – Olivier Neu, University College Dublin

Session 9 – Room B: IBPSA Session: Mind the gap – Modelling towards reality – Chair: Malcolm Cook, Loughborough University

• Using pattern recognition to communicate the performance gap – Jamie Bull, University College London
• The building energy performance gap: Up close and personal – Pieter deWilde, Plymouth University
• An operational perspective of the building energy performance gap – Godfried Augenbroe, Georgia Tech College of Architecture

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

• A comparison of US and European approaches to regulating fan efficiency – Michael Ivanovich, AMCA International, USA
• Indoor/outdoor air exchange: Balancing energy, building comfort and health issues in extreme climates – William Whistler, Green Building Solutions International, Dubai
• Neural and cognitive correlates of human decision-making in domestic energy usage – Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University

Session 13 – Room B: The urban truth of delivering sustainable cities – Chair: George Adams, CIBSE President

• 90 by 50: NYC can reduce its carbon footprint 90% by 2050 – Daniel Wright, Pratt Institute, USA
• The Manchester urban heat island and adjustments for CIBSE calculations – Geoffrey Levermore, University of Manchester
• Performance analysis of a zero carbon housing development – Jason Page, London Metropolitan University

10:50 – Parallel sessions

Session 14 – Room A: Evaluating the performance gap – Chair: Andy Ford, CIBSE Past President

• Development and application of performance measurement protocols for commercial buildings: ASHRAE/CIBSE experience – Bruce Hunn, Hunn Building Energy, USA
• Bridging the gap between operational and asset ratings: The UK experience and the green deal tool – Andy Lewry, BRE
• Development of an internationally comparable asset and operational energy rating – Tom Taylor, BRE
• A comparative study of the energy certification schemes implemented in the UK and ASHRAE’s building energy labelling programme – Esfandiar Burman, UCL

Session 15 – Room B: Modelling, diagnosing and enhancing the performance of ventilation systems – Chair: Maria Kolokotroni, Brunel University

• Impact of current occupant behaviour on potential carbon savings in a council owned tower block undergoing retrofit – Despoina Teli, University of Southampton
• Evaluating building ventilation strategies using newly-developed TRNSYS/CONTAM simulation capabilities – Stuart Dols, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA

AHU fault diagnostics using extended Modelica models – Gregory Provan, University College Cork, Ireland

• Data Centre Air Segregation Efficiency (ASE) – Robert Tozer, Operational Intelligence

12:30 – Session 16 – Room A Chair: Alex Smith, CIBSE Journal
Manufacturing Innovation – Martin Brown, Sales Manager, Medem UK

Poster pitch 2

• LEDs are the panacea – and other fairy tales - James Duff, Arup
• Energy efficiency and sustainability for a new motorway service area in Northern Italy - Alessandro Sandelewski, ASC Engineering Srl
• Use of augmented and virtual reality to improve delivery of building services systems – Irek Starzyk, Crown House Technologies
• Introduction to fuel cell-micro CHP technology for commercial and residential buildings – Alem Tesfai, KTP Associate, CIBSE

Session 17 – Room A: Assessing and delivering designs that aspire to nothing – Chair: Bill Bahnfleth, ASHRAE President

• Getting real about energy use in non-domestic buildings – Judit Kimpian, Aedas R&D
• Delivering an energy model for BREEAM and LEED: Exposing what really matters – Liam Buckley, IES Ltd, USA
• Evaluating the ‘as-built’ performance of an exemplar eco-housing development in UK – Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University

Session 18 – Room B: Enhancing future buildings through intelligence and training – Chair: Tony Day, IERC

• Engineering defects: Costs and sustainability – Laurence Brady, Liverpool John Moores University
• Framework for structured transformation to future of facilities to foster innovation, operational excellence and resilience – Om Taneja, Public Building Service, USA
• Case Study on resource efficient building services – Ant Wilson, AECOM
• Teambuild: Training for collaboration, human failures and success in a technical industry – Richard Rooley, Rooley Consultants and Alex MacLaren, Wyatt MacLaren LLP

15:35 – Prize presentation and drinks reception in Aungier Street Campus
Chair: Hywel Davies, CIBSE Technical Director

Posters

• NOx emissions, and a new methodology for assessing emissions from Combined Heat and Power Plant – Huw Blackwell, Islington Council
• Earth Tube Systems: Tempering fresh air in a Canadian climate – Trevor Butler, Archineers Consulting Limited, Canada
• Genetic Algorithms help to optimise Passive Building Design – David Cocking, DesignBuilder Software Ltd
• A case study on energy management in a medical devices production facility – John Cosgrove, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
• A comparison of the CIBSE Guide A and TM52 overheating criteria for a range of building types – Claire Das Bhaumik, Inkling LLP
• LEDs are the panacea – and other fairy tales – James Duff, Arup, Ireland
• Novel techniques for modelling energy demand in the built environment – David Jenkins, Heriot-Watt University
• Why use Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for energy monitoring – Willie Lawton, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
• 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

• Use of augmented and virtual reality to improve delivery of building services systems – Irek Starzyk, Crown House Technologies
• Introduction to fuel cell-micro CHP technology for commercial and residential buildings – Alem Tesfai, KTP Associate, CIBSE
• Natural personalised ventilation: Experimental validation – Stephen Todd, Loughborough University