Optimising window design on residential building facades by considering heat transfer and natural lighting in nontropical regions of Australia Chen, Zixuan, Hammad, Ahmed W. A., Kamardeen, Imriyas and Haddad, Assed 2020, Optimising window design on residential building facades by considering heat transfer and natural lighting in nontropical regions of Australia, Buildings, vol. 10, no. 11, doi: 10.3390/buildings10110206. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Optimising window design on residential building facades by considering heat transfer and natural lighting in nontropical regions of Australia Author(s) Chen, Zixuan Hammad, Ahmed W. A. Kamardeen, Imriyas orcid.org/0000-0001-7296-3605 Haddad, Assed Journal name Buildings Volume number 10 Issue number 11 Article ID 206 Total pages 27 Publisher MDPI AG Place of publication Basel, Switzerland Publication date 2020-11 ISSN 2075-5309 Keyword(s) multi-objective optimisation Revit dynamo Building Information Modelling window design window type window position window-to-wall ratio Summary Windows account for a significant proportion of the total energy lost in buildings. The interaction of window type, Window-to-Wall Ratio (WWR) scheduled and window placement height influence natural lighting and heat transfer through windows. This is a pressing issue for nontropical regions considering their high emissions and distinct climatic characteristics. A limitation exists in the adoption of common simulation-based optimisation approaches in the literature, which are hardly accessible to practitioners. This article develops a numerical-based window design optimisation model using a common Building Information Modelling (BIM) platform adopted throughout the industry, focusing on nontropical regions of Australia. Three objective functions are proposed; the first objective is to maximise the available daylight, and the other two emphasize undesirable heat transfer through windows in summer and winter. The developed model is tested on a case study located in Sydney, Australia, and a set of Pareto-optimum solutions is obtained. Through the use of the proposed model, energy savings of up to 8.57% are achieved. Language eng DOI 10.3390/buildings10110206 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1201 Architecture 1202 Building 1203 Design Practice and Management HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2020, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30145531 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Architecture and Built Environment Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Link to full-text (open access)     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 20 Nov 2020, 07:43:42 EST Sat, 21 Nov 2020, 04:00:58 EST Sat, 21 Nov 2020, 05:04:45 EST Mon, 23 Nov 2020, 07:56:50 EST Tue, 24 Nov 2020, 05:08:41 EST Thu, 26 Nov 2020, 09:15:50 EST Thu, 26 Nov 2020, 09:18:08 EST Thu, 26 Nov 2020, 09:54:16 EST Sat, 12 Dec 2020, 01:42:46 EST Sat, 09 Jan 2021, 01:31:09 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 20 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 20 Nov 2020, 07:43:42 EST

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