Paper 5: Volume 4 No.3 December 2005 Edition
Eleni
Primikiri1, Ali Malkawi2 and Margarita-Niki
Assimakopoulos3
1Department
of Architecture,
University
of
Patras
, Campus, Rion, 26500,
Greece
2Department of Architecture,
University
of
Pennsylvania
,
Philadelphia
,
PA
,
19104
,
USA
3Group
Building
Environmental Studies Physics Department,
University
of
Athens
, University Campus, 157 84,
Athens
,
Greece
Abstract
During the past few years, the research team of the
University
of
Michigan
has developed techniques to solve problems associated with designing a
performance evaluation tool environment. This paper describes the
development of a system (Web-IBEDO) that makes use of emerging
communication technology. The system is being used as a model for a larger
implementation of distributed multi-simulation environment that provides
quantitative data for bioclimatic building design.
Web-IBEDO is a computer program that supports the simultaneous integrated
use of simulation tools and multiple databases, over the World Wide Web
(www). This energy performance simulation system has been developed using
the Microsoft Visual Basic ActiveX DLL technology that supports Object
Linking and Embedding (OLE).
The system’s engine resides on a web server and is controlled by a
web-browser. The goal is to deliver this tool to all the design actors via
the network and thus enhance the capabilities of sharing specialized
knowledge among the project participants.
Key words: building
design, www enabled simulation tools, natural ventilation calculation.
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