Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 11/Dec/2018
8:30am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: G/F
9:00am
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9:30am
Keynote 4: Speaker: Kuo Ying Chao
Location: LT1

Topic: Design for the Circular Future

9:30am
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10:30am
4ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Carlos Javier Esparza Lopez
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Variations of Micro-climatic Conditions in Residential Neighbourhoods in Ho Chi Minh City

Hung Thanh Dang, Adrian Pitts


9:45am - 10:00am

The Partial Replacement of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) with Rice Husk Ash(RHA) to Stabilize Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs) for Affordable Building Materials in Nigeria

Adedamola Mobolanle Ojerinde, Adekunle M Ajao, Babatunde F Ogunbayo, Vicki Stevenson, Eshrar Latif


10:00am - 10:10am

Climatic Potential for Low-energy Cooling Strategies in India

Sanyogita Manu, Devna Vyas, Luciano Caruggi de Faria, Malcolm Cook, Rajan Rawal, Dennis Loveday, Charalampos Angelopoulos


10:10am - 10:20am

A Study on Climate Responsive Design of Open Residential Neighborhoods in a Southern Chinese City

Sitong Guo, Feng Yang

4ST/2: Science & Technology
Location: LT2
Chair: Dr. Denise Helena Silva Duarte
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Environmental Benefits when Reusing Load-Bearing Components in Office Buildings: A case study.

Endrit Hoxha, Corentin Fivet


9:45am - 10:00am

Findings From A Survey On The Current Use Of Life-Cycle Assessment In Building Design

Thomas Jusselme, Emmanuel Rey, Marilyne Andersen


10:00am - 10:10am

An Urban Vulnerability Index for Cities in the Middle East

Norhan Magdy Bayomi, Tarek Rakha, John Fernandez


10:10am - 10:20am

Assessing the Energy Savings and Payback Period for Various Levels of Compliance with Energy Conservation Building Code(ECBC) -2017

Mansi Sandeep Parikh, Prasad Vaidya

4ST/5: Science & Technology
Location: LT5
Chair: Dr. Christopher James Whitman
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Quantification Of Airflow Patterns In A Naturally Ventilated Building Simulated In A Water Table Apparatus

Pooja Mundhe, Rashmin Mohan Damle, Prasad Vaidya, Michael G. Apte


9:45am - 10:00am

Indoor Air Quality and Its Effects on Health in Urban Houses of Indonesia

Tetsu Kubota, Hanief Ariefman Sani, Usep Surahman, Sophia Hildebrandt, Hamidi Ronald, Beta Paramita


10:00am - 10:10am

Multilayer Urban Canopy Modelling and Mapping for Traffic Pollutant Dispersion at High Density Urban Areas

Chao Yuan, Ruiqin Shan, Yangyang Zhang, Xianxiang Li, Tiangang Yim, Leslie Norford


10:10am - 10:20am

Measuring Infiltration Rates & Leakage in Residential Buildings of Ahmedabad using Blower Door Method

Nikhilesh Singh Bist, Michael G. Apte

4ST/6: Science & Technology
Location: LT6
Chair: Prof. Evyatar Erell
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Statistical analysis of architectural features effects on indoor environmental conditions in a Plus Energy House prototype

Miguel Alejandro Chen Austin, Denis Bruneau, Alain Sempey, Laurent Mora


9:45am - 10:00am

Sensitivity of Passive Design Strategies to Climate Change

Arfa N. Aijazi, Gail S. Brager


10:00am - 10:10am

Exploring the potential of WUDAPT local climate zone maps to detect vegetation loss. A study for São Paulo Metropolitan Region from 2002 to 2017.

Luciana Schwandner Ferreira, Denise H. Silva Duarte


10:10am - 10:20am

Responsive Weatherscreens: The Design of Bimetallic Facade Screens for Pre-cooling and Pre-heating in Breathing Walls

Wenting Li, Zlatan Sehovic

4ST/7: Science & Technology
Location: LT7
Chair: Prof. Sergio Altomonte
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Downscaling Climate Models: Running Nested Simulations In The Microclimate Model ENVI-met

Helge Simon, Tim Kropp, Francesca Sohni, Michael Bruse


9:45am - 10:00am

Influence of Office Building’s Height in Urban Areas on Surrounding Microclimate and Building Performance

Jing Li, Michael Donn, Geoff Thomas


10:00am - 10:10am

Distributed rule of Solar Radiation for Building Heating in Western China

Liu Dalong, Yang Jingli, Liu Jiaping, Wang Wenqin, Ma Lan


10:10am - 10:20am

Steady-state or transient heat balances for comparable energy demand calculations? A case-study based on a sandwich lightweight structure

Roland Martin Goettig

4DP/8: Design & Practice
Location: LT8
Chair: Florencia Collo
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Advanced Radiant Cooling System for the Office in Tropics, Relaxation of thermal comfort criteria by utilizing a slight airflow

Masayuki Ichinose, Midoriko Kinoshita, Kitaro Mizuide, Taro Hongo, Kazuki Yamada


9:45am - 10:00am

Passivhaus Lived Experience. More Than a Spreadsheet

Kate Carter, Jill Zhao


10:00am - 10:10am

Zero Energy Buildings in the Mediterranean: Typological Feasibility Analysis towards an Israeli Adaptation

Jonathan Natanian


10:10am - 10:20am

Openness, Interaction and Nature ——Case study on the regeneration design of the cold region architecture department building in the informatization context

Ligang Shi, Xu Du

4PC/9: People & Community
Location: LT9
Chair: Prof. Ulrike Passe
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Sustainability: What we need vs what we think we need

Aman Batish, Avlokita Agrawal


9:45am - 10:00am

Neighbourhood Environment and Walking Behaviour in High-density Cities

Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Zheng Tan


10:00am - 10:10am

Assessing sustainable and healthy environments. Case study: a learning space in Mexico.

Julia Judith Mundo Hernandez, Maria Cristina Valerdi Nochebuena, Gloria Carola Santiago Azpiazu, Benito de Celis Alonso


10:10am - 10:20am

The Elderly And Their Indoor Environment: Use Of Thermal Comfort Models To Determine Occupant Satisfaction.

Caroline Elizabeth Hughes, Sukumar Natarajan

 
10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee Break
Location: G/F & 2/F
11:00am
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12:00pm
5ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Chao Yuan
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Improving Louvers with Indirect Evaporative Cooling as Heat Exchanger

Carlos Javier Esparza Lopez, Sergio Rafael Aguilar Lucas, Carlos Escobar del Pozo, Marcos Eduardo González Trevizo


11:15am - 11:30am

Retrofitting Strategies for Social Housing Buildings in Different Climate Conditions. The CORVI 1010-1020 Block Type in Three Chilean Cities

Waldo Bustamante, Cristian Schmitt, Victor Bunster, Paula Martinez, Francisco Chateau


11:30am - 11:40am

The Potential for PV Installation in Dense Urban Areas: An open-source model for analysis of urban form

Evyatar Erell, Adi Vulkan, Michael Dorman, Itai Kloog


11:40am - 11:50am

Matching Visual Impact, Solar Energy Production Potential and Energy System Optimization for an Enhanced Solar Integration

Pietro Florio, Silvia Coccolo, A.T.D. Perera, Jean-Louis Scartezzini

5ST/2: Science & Technology
Location: LT2
Chair: Dr. Denise Helena Silva Duarte
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Dynamic Microclimate Modelling For Urban China

Veda Baliga, Mark DeKay, Ruggiero Guida, Sitan Zhu


11:15am - 11:30am

Effects of Urban Space Opening Layouts on Pedestrian-level Wind Conditions

Wei You, Lian Tang, Wowo Ding


11:30am - 11:40am

Calculation Methods for the Ventilation with Solar Chimneys

Lukas Schwan, Madjid Madjidi, Thomas Auer


11:40am - 11:50am

A Microclimate Study of a Free-Running Historic Building through Computational Fluid Dynamics

Andrea Bianco, Daniel Micallef, Vincent Buhagiar

5ST/5: Science & Technology
Location: LT5
Chair: Dr. Feng Yang
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Calibrated Urban Systems Design: A Simulation-based Design Workflow using Measured Data Clustering to Calibrate Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs)

Tarek Rakha, Rawad El Kontar


11:15am - 11:30am

Optimal Design of the Urban Thermal Environment Using 3D City Models and Numerical Simulation:A Case Study of a Historical District in China

Yanwen Luo, Jiang He, Junmu Qiu, Nanxiong Huang


11:30am - 11:40am

Evaluation Of Microclimatic Conditions And Thermal Comfort Of The City's Public Space

Anna Dominika Bochenek, Katarzyna Klemm


11:40am - 11:50am

The Relation between Clothing Insulation and Thermal Comfort of Occupants in Air-Conditioned Offices in Thailand

Tanadej Sikram, Masayuki Ichinose, Rumiko Sasaki

5ST/6: Science & Technology
Location: LT6
Chair: Prof. Nikolaus Knebel
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Potential Wind Power Utilization in Diverging Passages Between Two High-Rise Buildings

Yu-Hsuan Juan, Chih-Yung Wen, An-Shik Yang, Hamid Montazeri, Bert Blocken


11:15am - 11:30am

Testing a procedure of using Transepidermal Water Loss to measure the effect of dry air on occupant's skin condition and hygrothermal comfort in a real living environment

Yi Jin, Fan Wang, Sarah Payne, Richard Weller, Dominic Tabor


11:30am - 11:40am

Economic and Socialized Housing: An initial quantification of embodied energy in the Philippines

Ryan Cimagala Songcayauon


11:40am - 11:50am

Household Energy Consumption of Residential Buildings in the Tropics: Factors Affecting Cooling Energy

Usep Surahman, Tetsu Kubota, Pranda Mulya Putra, Andhang Rakhmat Trihamdani

5DP/7: Design & Practice
Location: LT7
Chair: Florencia Collo
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Everyday House: Redesigning the Informal Housing in Subtropical Climates, the Case of Paraisópolis Favela in Sao Paulo

Eduardo Pimentel Pizarro, Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves


11:15am - 11:30am

Free Running Office in Mexico City

Daniel Ibarra Flores, Paula Cadima


11:30am - 11:40am

Post Occupancy Evaluation of Indoor Environment Quality in Office Buildings in Mumbai

Rupali Trushant Thakur, Apeksha Gupta, Roshni Udyavar


11:40am - 11:50am

Assessment of Energy Consumption in Cluster Redevelopment

Insiya Yacoob Kapasi, Prof. Roshni Udyavar Yehuda

5ET/8: Education & Training
Location: LT8
Chair: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez-Alvarez
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Daylighting Education In Practice Verification Of A New Goal Within A European Knowledge Investigation

Federica Giuliani, Natalia Sokol, Valerio R.M. Lo Verso, Federica Caffaro, Aicha Diakite, Raquel J. A. V. Viula, Bernard Paule


11:15am - 11:30am

Teaching Natural ventilation using Water Table Apparatus A classroom teaching, simulation and design tool

Monisha Edwina Royan G, Prasad Suresh Vaidya, Pooja Mundhe


11:30am - 11:40am

Do ‘Green’ Academic Buildings Actually Support Teaching And Learning?

Usha Iyer-Raniga, Andrew Carre, Mary Myla Andamon


11:40am - 11:50am

When Buildings Converse With Climate

Shreshth Nagpal, Shrikar Bhave

5PC/9: People & Community
Location: LT9
Chair: Prof. Susan Clare Roaf
 
11:00am - 11:15am

LCZ in Metropolitan Regions: Surface Temperature in urban and rural areas

Alessandra Rodrigues Prata Shimomura, Anderson Targino Ferreira


11:15am - 11:30am

Gauging people’s perceptions of reclaimed and recycled building materials: A pilot study

Zahra Balador, Morten Gjerde, Nigel Isaacs


11:30am - 11:40am

Statistic Data Based Holistic Building Performance Analysis

Genku Kayo, Vahid Arabzadeh, Ivo Martinac, Risto Lahdelma


11:40am - 11:50am

Smart Housing after the Tsunami: Lessons from Kirinda, Sri Lanka

Nirodha Kumari Meegahakumbura Dissanayake, Katharine Bartsch

 
12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch time
1:30pm
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3:30pm
6ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Prof. Vincent Michael Buhagiar
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Integrating Hydroponics Into Office Buildings

Melanie Jans-Singh, Helen Gillard, Rebecca Ward, Ruchi Choudhary


1:45pm - 2:00pm

Neutral Global Warming Potential Target of Electricity Storage as Threshold for Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation in Buildings

Didier Vuarnoz, Thomas Jusselme


2:00pm - 2:15pm

Experimental Study On An Air-Phase-Change-Material Unit For Summer Thermal Comfort In A Naturally Ventilated Building

Maria De Los Angeles Ortega Del Rosario, Miguel Chen Austin, Denis Bruneau, Jean-Pierre Nadeau, Patrick Sébastien, Dimitri Jaupard


2:15pm - 2:30pm

Shadowing windows with BIPV blinds: delicate balance for office buildings in low latitudes.

Joára Cronemberger Ribeiro Silva, Estefanía Caamaño-Martín


2:30pm - 2:45pm

Urban Microclimate and Energy Performance: An Integrated Simulation Method

Daniela Maiullari, Martin Mosteiro-Romero, Marjolein Pijpers-van Esch


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Breaking The Glass Box: “Strategies to Reduce the Energy Consumption in 24/7 IT Offices in Delhi NCR”

Gunveer Singh, Jorge Rodríguez-Álvarez


3:00pm - 3:15pm

Summertime thermal comfort and adaptive behaviours in mixed-mode office buildings in Harbin, China

Ran Zhang, Cheng Sun, Steve Sharples, Yunsong Han, Hongrui Zhang

6ST/2: Science & Technology
Location: LT2
Chair: Prof. Adrian Pitts
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Passive Downdraft Cooling Towers Performance Evaluation: Results of data collected from built prototypes

Omar Dhia Sadulah Al-Hassawi


1:45pm - 2:00pm

Physical Monitoring of Replacement Infill Panels for Historic Timber-Framed Buildings in the UK: Comparing hygrothermal simulations and dual climate chamber testing

Christopher James Whitman, Oriel Prizeman, Julie Gwilliam, Andrew Shea, Pete Walker


2:00pm - 2:15pm

Passive Cooling with Phase Change Materials: Integrative Method for Design of Dendritic Encapsulation Prototype

Iva Resetar, Norbert Palz


2:15pm - 2:30pm

Enhancement Of The WUDAPT Portal Tool WUDAPT2ENVI-met: Introducing Site-Specific Local Climate Zones To WUDAPT2ENVI-met

Tim Kropp, Helge Simon, Paula Shinzato, Luciana Schwandner Ferreira, Carolina Dos Santos Gusson, Denise Duarte, Michael Bruse


2:30pm - 2:45pm

Daylighting in Sacred Buildings: Application of Dynamic Brightness Balance and Contrast in divine luminous environment for Energy Saving and Visual Comfort

Annie Sim, Benson Lau, Wai Ying Wong


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Effect of Intra- Climate Variation in Thermal Performance of Public Housing in composite climate of India.

Krishan Upadhyay, Rajasekar Elangovan, Vaibhav Gupta, Ashok Kumar


3:00pm - 3:15pm

The Impact of External Façade Shading on The Thermal Comfort of Public Rental Housing under Near-extreme Weather Conditions in Hong Kong

Sheng Liu, Yu Ting Kwok, Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Edward Yan Yung Ng

6ST/5: Science & Technology
Location: LT5
Chair: Prof. Usha Iyer-Raniga
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

An Empirical Investigation of the Link between Indoor Environment and Workplace Productivity in a UK Office Building

Rajat Gupta, Alastair Howard


1:45pm - 2:00pm

Smart and Healthy Buildings from Idea to Reality: A Comparative Analysis of Green Buildings Energy and Environmental Performance between Design Predictions and Actual Performance

Ihab Elzeyadi


2:00pm - 2:15pm

Reducing Building Waste Through Light Timber Frame Design

Gerard Finch, Guy Marriage


2:15pm - 2:30pm

Experimental Biases in Discomfort Glare Evaluations

Michael Kent, Steve Fotios, Sergio Altomonte


2:30pm - 2:45pm

Particulate Concentrations in Bedrooms in Airtight Dwellings: Findings from Eleven Dwellings in Scotland

Filbert Musau


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Recycled Materials Impact On Thermal Comfort Of Low-cost Housing In Latin America

Andres Moreno Sierra, Walter Torres

SDC: Student Design Colloquium
Location: LT6

Shortlisted student teams of Student Design Competition will give presentations on their design works.

1) 1:30-1:40 pm: Noriel Estipular (Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology): Reviving the Paralyzed Networks

2) 1:40-1:50 pm: Sana Aleem (University of Westminster): Traditional Multiple Courtyard House

3) 1:50-2:00 pm: Candy Esmundo (Tarlac State University): Panoramic Porest City Organic regeneration of Baguio City Mountain Housing

4) 2:00 - 2:10 pm: Eduardo Pimentel Pizarro (University of Sao Paulo): Everyday House

5) 2:10-2:20 pm: Hung Thanh Dang (University of Huddersfield): Shelters for Adjustments

6) 2:20-2:30 pm: Li Yigang (Guangxi University): Coolland Station

7) 2:30-2:40 pm: Viktoria Elisabeth Blum (Technical University Munich): Home Kong Tower

8) 2:40-2:50 pm: Myrthe Tielens (Wageningen University): The Energy Walk

9) 2:50-3:00 pm: Alyssa Marion Chua Jia-Min (National University of Singapore): Plug and Play

6DP/7: Design & Practice
Location: LT7
Chair: Prof. Emanuele Naboni
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Environmental Performance of Abuja’s Low-Income Housing: Understanding the current state to inform future refinement

Mahmood Abdulkareem, Sura Al-Maiyah


1:45pm - 2:00pm

The thermal environment in the high-density tall building from the Brazilian bioclimatic modernism: Living in the COPAN building

Joana Carla Soares Goncalves, Monica Dolce, Roberta Mulfarth, Eduardo Gasparelo Lima, Amanda Ferreira, Ranny Nascimento Michalski


2:00pm - 2:15pm

Adaptive Infill Living: Framework for an Alternative Housing Typology in London

Wan Fong Wu, Paula Cadima


2:15pm - 2:30pm

Partial Shading Effects of Surrounding Obstacle Parameters on Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) System Efficiency in Thailand

Nuttasit Somboonwit, Amon Boontore


2:30pm - 2:45pm

Contemporary Review of the Regional Plan for Argentina’s Countryside by Grupo Austral

Florencia Collo, Simos Yannas


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Kisekae House: Movable Building Devices and Lifestyle

Tomoko Uno, Junko Morimoto, Shigeyuki Okazaki, Aya Yamaguchi, Keisuke Inomata


3:00pm - 3:15pm

UrbanConnectivity As A Guideline For Sustainable Habitat Rehabilitation

Veronica Lopera Aguirre, Alexander González Castaño

JP/CU: Special Session (Japan & CUHK)
Location: LT8
JAPAN SPECIAL SESSION: Session Chair: Prof. Okaze, Tsubasa, Tokyo Institute of Technology Hirokazu Suemitsu: Sustainable Architecture Design with Environmental Simulation: Introduction of Design Process with CFD Toshikazu Ishida*, Munenori Inoue, Mamiko Fujiyama: Architectural Design Education based on Simulation tools: Retrofitting Design Improvement Approach in Tohoku University Keiichiro Taniguchi: Cultivating of human resources capable of utilizing simulation Norihisa Kawashima: Learning Ecological Knowledge from Traditional Japanese Villages and Architecture Using Simulation CUHK SPECIAL SESSION: Session Chair: Prof. Ferretto, Peter, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Tung Fung and Siu Man Fung: Building a Sustainable Campus at CUHK Peter W. Ferretto: Residual Thinking: Reclaiming Hong Kong’s Lost Urban Spaces Francesco Rossini: Architectural Interventions in the Informal City: On-site upgrading strategies for BaSECo Community Jing Luo*, Peter W. Ferretto: Reinventing Wood:...
6PC/9: People & Community
Location: LT9
Chair: Prof. Susanne Gampfer
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Earth, Density and Form

Neil Keith Burford, Carol Robertson


1:45pm - 2:00pm

Impact of Urban Air Pollution on Occupants’ Visual Comfort, Alertness, Mood in an Office with Various Glazing Types

Xiaodong Chen, Xin Zhang, Jiangtao Du


2:00pm - 2:15pm

Social Preference of Building Materials: Decision-Making Towards Low Carbon Housing Constructions

Rodrigo Alba Krasovsky, Sebastian Bobadilla Suarez, Dietrich Schwarz


2:15pm - 2:30pm

The Impact of Facade Renovation Strategies on User Satisfaction in Offices, Case studies for summer in the Netherlands

Minyoung Kwon, Hilde Remøy, Ulrich Knaack


2:30pm - 2:45pm

Two Degree Rise In Indoor Temperature: Energy Use Behaviour Of British Asians

Satish B K


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Analyze the Interaction between People’s Perceptions of Interior Spatial Properties and the Opening Form with Isovist Measures

Xufeng Zhang


3:00pm - 3:15pm

Occupant Satisfaction in 60 Radiant and All-air Buildings

Caroline Karmann, Stefano Schiavon, Lindsay Graham, Paul Raftery, Fred Bauman

 
3:30pm
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4:00pm
Coffee Break
Location: G/F & 2/F
4:00pm
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4:30pm
Keynote 5: Speaker: Markus Roselieb
Location: LT1

Topic: Bamboo Power for Structural Design

4:30pm
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5:15pm
Discussion Forum
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Heide G. Schuster