Projects

With a variety of factors for building energy consumption, the prediction accuracy largely depends on the data integrity of building basic information and measured energy consumption. In view of the fact that practical building energy performance related data are general lacking, how to sufficiently use limited available data to achieve reasonable and accurate building energy prediction? To ans... ...More...

Urban/community morphology has become one of the hot research topics. However, the dynamic coupling mechanism between microclimate and building energy use inside communities is far from clear, and the relevant research about the impact of morphology factors is not complete yet. There is an urgent need for an overall evaluation system of the urban/community morphology. Based on the theory of urb... ...More...

The project 'The development of a co-simulation model of occupant behavior, IAQ, and building energy' is the subtask 2 of the kernel development of the whole building performance simulation platform (China National KeyR&D Plan)No document availableNo claim of this projec ...More...

本研究针对中国建筑碳排放总量控制和制定减碳行动路线的问题展开研究。根据国家减碳目标确定了未来中国建筑碳排放总量控制目标，采用情景分析法研究实现建筑碳排放总量控制目标的可行性，在对低碳建筑节能技术研究的基础上，提出建筑减碳策略，并制定建筑领域的减碳行动路线。 ...More...

Load prediction advises energy planning from the view of end-users, but it lacks certainties during the initial stage of urban design. This project yielded practical methods to unite software simulation and data mining to estimate the load of building blocks, and developed Excel-VBA spread sheet prediction tools based on typical ‘load/area’ index database.Community formation describes how bui... ...More...

This project aims to study on M&V method of energy savings in CEM projects so as to enhance the improvement of relative standards, regulations and policies in Shanghai based on case studies, referring to IPMVP and ASHRAE Guideline 14. It also aims to investigate the benefits sharing mode in large public building CEM projects and to share experience in Shanghai and other cities via training and ... ...More...

本项目由美国能源基金会支持，与中国标准化研究院和相关ESCO公司合作，研究适用于中国国情的既有建筑节能改造中的节能量测量与验证方法，编制方法指南，给出大量实际案例。本指南将成为“《节能量测量与验证技术通则》（GB/T 28750-2012）的补充，成为系列国家标准。项目成果《ESCO与建筑节能改造——节能量核验方法与案例研究》已出版，基于科研项目“利用合同能源管理模式推动既有建筑节能改造政策研究”的相关研究成果上编写而成。 ...More...

This project is going to study the status quo of new buildings and exiting buildings in China and the applicable energy efficiency technologies in the two types of buildings; A full list of these technologies will be made so that to know the overall picture of building energy efficiency industry in China.Survey of energy efficiency technologies in relation to smart buildings. The technologies n... ...More...

After 2 years’ work, a test bed with intelligent DALI control system and energy efficient illuminating devices are set up in Tongji University. Supported by OSRAM Germany financially, this project aims to test the performance of OSRAM’s DALI control systems in offices.On basis of daylighting usage analysis of an office, the test bed is carefully designed. The lamps are divided into 4 groups, ... ...More...

Climate change would affect the building energy demand in the future. Building simulation is a feasible way to quantitatively evaluate this impact. Based on the long/short-term climate periodicity analysis, a Dual-Periodic Time Series Model is established to predict the future monthly temperatures in Shanghai. From the fitting results and the preliminary assessment analysis, it is observed that... ...More...

Two modern office buildings similar in size and function in Shanghai with typical VAV system are selected as research objects. Four separate spaces facing different directions (South, east, north and west) on one standard office floor in each building are selected to do site measurement on outdoor air flow rates and indoor air quality during typical days of four seasons (Summer, autumn, winter,... ...More...

The experimental research on performance assessment of HVAC control strategies consumes a great deal of cost and labor; besides, the study objects are normally fixed. Meanwhile, no single building performance simulation tool offers sufficient capabilities and flexibilities to accommodate the ever increasing complexity and rapid innovations in control systems and technologies. Therefore, it is n... ...More...

The project yields a suit of UPPC (Ultra Performing Plant Control) control system based on simulation models, aiming at increasing the overall COP of the plant. Achievements of the project have been tested in several building refurbishment tasks.Attachments企业天地UPPC 项目评估报告No claim of this projec ...More...

Initiated by China Green Building Council, the project aims to nail down key methods and standard procedures to regulate the BPS industry, including simulations on building energy, microclimate environment, visual-audio and light effects. Our research group are mainly responsible for compiling guidelines on building energy simulation.No document availableNo claim of this projec ...More...

Commissioned by ARUP, our group has accomplished the project in cooperation with Shanghai Research Institute of Building Science and Shenzhen Institute of Building Research. The project aims to establish methods optimizing community energy system’s capacity, based on a bottom-up district energy model composed by calibrated prototypes of all kinds of buildings. The data for calibration are from... ...More...

Load estimation is one fundamental work to energy system configuration and operation scheme. Relative topics are installed capacity, power system, piping network, investment, utilization and operational cost. In this project we apply scenario analysis to evaluate the time series load profile of district building blocks in West Hongqiao Business District, considering various building types, load... ...More...

Currently in the AEC market of China, most of the design projects are documented in the form of 2D-drawings, which impedes the paradigm shift towards BIM-based construction. This project aims at developing an automatic building information model generation software based on CAD drawings. Such tool will help with the BIM-BEM model transformation process to faciliate the HVAC system design automa... ...More...

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Energy saving, especially automatic room-level management may enlarge the margin profit running the hotel business. This project aims to establish a universal, fast and robust model to analyze the energy saving potential of hotel buildings equipped with terminal management system, thus acquiring basic knowledge about returns on investment, during bidding process. The research was performed base... ...More...

The SIEMENS building-tech department at Zug, Switzerland, developed the Energy Efficiency Calculation Tool (EEC Tool), and in this project, cooperated with Tongji University to promote its localized version to the chinese market.During its localization, our team offers weather data of main cities in China, thermal property of typical building constructions and various kinds of HVAC equipments t... ...More...

Inlets and outlets of skyscrapers façade are usually affected by fluctuate wind pressure. When it gets positive the outlets may not exhaust air normally, and on the other hand, dedicated air system may not inhale properly. To ensure the robustness of OA & EA system, fan parameters have to be tested through even the worst situations. Meanwhile, how system will perform to keep a good indoor press... ...More...

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The research was supported by Kaichuang Building-tech Coperation in Shanghai. Focuses are:Dig into the input file of EnergyPlus, which includes the parameters and their format, span, default, combination, as well as the restrictions to the mass and shape of the simulated building.Detail analysis of the outputs. Formats and variables definitions.Study the common mechanical systems applied in Ene... ...More...

VisualEPlus is a drag-and-drop graphic user interface for the building simulation engine EnergyPlus, focusing on graphical modeling of HVAC system, and analysis of output results, aiming to faciliate the data input procedure for common modellers. This project was supported by the DOE of America, and incorporated LBNL, Tongji University, Shangdong University, China Academy of Building Research a... ...More...

Client: China Academy of Building Research This project offers an universal building energy forecasting modeling method based on time series analysis and pysical principle enriched data driven model. Various commercial buildings are tested.Attachments中国建筑能效比对评测方法及工具开发研究报告No claim of this projec ...More...

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This project performs the whole building energy analysis for design proposed options for the two office buildings in Microsoft Zi Zhu Campus. The design proposed options are compared to an ASHRAE 90.1-2004 compliant budget model to highlight energy savings versus “standard practice” and show the potential LEEDTM Credit EA1 – Optimize Energy Performance. Meanwhile, they are also compared to C... ...More...

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This project aims to model Shanghai Expo Center according to LEED Credit EA1for labeling ...More...

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