7th International conference on
System Simulation in Buildings,
Liège, December 11-13, 2006

Introduction

Such as for the six previous ones, this 7th conference is organized in very close cooperation with the International Energy Agency group"Energy Conservation in Building and Community Systems" (IEA-ECBCS) and with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).

This conference will be, among others, the occasion to present some last results coming from the IEA-ECBCS Annex 40 " Commissioning of Building HVAC Systems for Improved Building Performance " and to deal with some aspects of the new Annexes 43 " Testing and Validation of Building Energy Simulation Tools ", 47 "Cost Effective Commissioning of Existing and Low-Energy Buildings" and 48 "Heat Pumping and Reversible Air Conditioning".

The following topics will be considered in priority:

• modeling of HVAC components
• system simulation methods and tools
• application to commissioning
• application to energy management and to maintenance
• application to audit and retrofit

Language

The official conference language is English.