TR200: ThermalOpt: A Methodology for Automated BIM-Based Multidisciplinary Thermal Simulation for Use in Optimization Environments
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This paper describes ThermalOpt - a multidisciplinary optimization (MDO) methodology for BIM-based passive thermal design of buildings. ThermalOpt addresses several design barriers found in practice today by integrating and automating commercially available technologies into a workflow from a parametric BIM model (Digital Project) to energy (EnergyPlus) and daylighting (Radiance) simulation engines using an open data model (Industry Foundation Classes). Details are discussed including methods for: automatically converting architectural models into multiple consistent thermal analytical models; integration/coordination of analysis inputs and outputs between multiple thermal analyses; reducing simulation times; and generating consistent annual metrics for energy and daylighting performance. We explain how this method can help designers explore orders of magnitude larger design spaces and understand the complex tradeoffs required to achieve zero energy buildings.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | June 2011 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Welle, Benjamin |
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| Author | Haymaker, John |
| Author | Rogers, Zack |
Subjects
| Subject | CIFE |
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| Subject | Center for Integrated Facility Engineering |
| Subject | Stanford University |
| Subject | Conceptual Building Design |
| Subject | daylighting simulation |
| Subject | Design Automation |
| Subject | Energy Simulation |
| Subject | Interoperability |
| Subject | MDO |
| Subject | Multidisciplinary Design Optimization |
| Subject | Process Integration |
| Genre | Technical report |
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- Welle, Benjamin and Haymaker, John and Rogers, Zack . (2011). TR200: ThermalOpt: A Methodology for Automated BIM-Based Multidisciplinary Thermal Simulation for Use in Optimization Environments. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/rc385rf9610
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