International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation: Volume 38 Issue 1

Building performance and measurement: its place within a variable climate

Christopher Gorse

Inferring the as-built air permeability of new UK dwellings

Jenny Crawley, Phillip Biddulph, Jez Wingfield, Minnie Ashdown, Robert Lowe, Cliff Elwell

Compulsory airtightness testing was introduced for new dwellings in England and Wales in 2006 and in Scotland in 2010 to ensure that they are constructed according to design air…

A standardised flexibility assessment methodology for demand response

Sarah O’Connell, Glenn Reynders, Federico Seri, Raymond Sterling, Marcus M. Keane

The purpose of this paper is to standardised four-step flexibility assessment methodology for evaluating the available electrical load reduction or increase a building can provide…

Estimation of building heat transfer coefficients from in-use data: Impacts of unmonitored energy flows

Matthew Li, David Allinson, Kevin Lomas

The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of traditionally unmonitored energy sources and sinks on assessment of the as-built thermal performance of occupied homes. The…

Thermal analysis and post construction verification

Cormac Flood, Lloyd Scott

The residential sector in Ireland accounted for 25 per cent of energy related CO2 emissions in 2016 through burning fossil fuels, a major contributor to climate change. In support…

A cost trajectory to environmentally adaptive building construction in wet humid settings

Alolote Amadi, Anthony Paul Higham

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the ongoing discourse centred on enhancing building performance to provide an interpretation of life cycle cost (LCC) analysis, directly…

Characterising the airtightness of dwellings: Its improvement over time and relationship to construction technique

Minnie M.A. Ashdown, Jenny Crawley, Phillip Biddulph, Jez Wingfield, Robert Lowe, Clifford A. Elwell

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the distribution of dwelling airtightness test results for a developer, between 2007 and 2011. The changes in airtightness test results…

Methodological evaluation of Integrated Façade Systems: Sensitivity analysis of net energy in a base-case model

Yahya Ibraheem, Poorang A.E. Piroozfar, Eric R.P. Farr, Neil Ravenscroft

The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology to test the robustness of energy performance of highly to fully glazed office buildings in hot and arid climates using the…

Modeling of chloride penetration in concrete structures under freeze-thaw cycles

H’mida Hamidane, Ayman Ababneh, Ali Messabhia, Yunping Xi

The purpose of this paper is to develop a method for predicting the chloride ingress into concrete structures, with an emphasis on the low temperature range where freeze-thaw…

Flat roof hygrothermal performance testing and evaluation

Aitor Erkoreka, Ivan Flores-Abascal, Cesar Escudero, Koldo Martin, Jose Antonio Millan, Jose Maria Sala

Understanding the dynamic hygrothermal behavior of building elements is very important to ensure the optimal performance of buildings. The Laboratory for Quality Control in…

Assessing building performance in residential buildings using BIM and sensor data

Kay Rogage, Adrian Clear, Zaid Alwan, Tom Lawrence, Graham Kelly

Buildings and their use is a complex process from design to occupation. Buildings produce huge volumes of data such as building information modelling (BIM), sensor (e.g. from…

Assessment of energy performance using bottom-up method: Exemplified by multi-storey buildings in Tlemcen (Algeria)

Khadidja El-Bahdja Djebbar, Souria Salem, Abderrahmane Mokhtari

The purpose of this paper is to analyze energy performance of the multi-storey buildings built in the city of Tlemcen between 1872 and 2016.

Virtual 3D model of Canseleri building via close-range photogrammetry implementation

Ahmad Shahrunnizam Ahmad Shazali, Khairul Nizam Tahar

The current technique used to measure construction is the conventional total station method. However, the conventional method is time-consuming and could not be used to create a…

Developing a new framework to bring consistency and flexibility in evaluating actual building performance

Rajat Gupta, Matthew Gregg, Rohini Cherian

The field of building performance evaluation (BPE) forms a fragmented whole with tools and methods that are not widely applicable. In response, the purpose of this paper is to…