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Seminar: Dale Brentrup
Date:
August 16, 2013
Professor
Dale Brentrup’s research focuses on the development of simulation systems for
the optimization of daylight, energy and envelope system performance. He talked
about some examples of daylighting optimization through the use of a Genetic
Algorithm to save electricity consumption, and the inclusion of developing work
on the visualization of thermal performance. I’ve heard there are lots of
studies that show great importance of daylight in the office or residential
buildings. Actually they showed natural lighting has a positive impact on
increasing the mental and physical abilities also work productivity. The sunlight
as a renewable energy source can be used to improve the energy efficiency of
the integration of lighting control systems in office buildings. Therefore the
relationship between light and architecture is inseparable.
Demand
for environmentally friendly buildings is growing, and architects consider to
create buildings that how to maximize and optimize natural lighting into the
building for energy saving. Many studies show that daylighting is a important
function and consideration factors of building design such as building’s
location and orientation, size, shape, window size, even specifies materials. Because
architects make these decisions, and determine a building’s daylighting
performance. Their decisions have significant energy consumption consequences. The
goal of the research is the investigation into the application of Genetic
Algorithyms to provide visual and optimized data to assess the systemic energy
efficient impact of whole building systems related with global climate change. This
study presented utilizes climate-based simulations for each design combination which
affect the thermal and luminous performance. This work is enabling a movement
toward regional market transformation in energy efficiency, carbon sustainable
building design practice and appropriate technology through the application of
common methods and verification instrumentation.
In
future years, the prices of energy sources will be expensive and affect the
rising of costs of living and doing business. Therefore, developing of
sustainable energy is really important. I think studies of daylighting
performance evaluation continue to be advanced and developed in order to find
solutions to daylighting design problems that are better than those that would
have been found using traditional methods. Architects, engineers, and lighting
designers can now perform dynamic climate-based daylighting simulations, made
possible by the development of related algorithms and software.
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