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Title Research methods in building science and technology / Rahman Azari, Hazem Rashed-Ali, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021

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Contents Introduction -- Building energy performance research -- Urban energy performance research -- Environmental indoor air quality research -- Environmental life cycle assessment -- Lighting and daylighting research -- Thermal comfort research
Summary This book covers the range of methodological approaches, methods and tools currently used in various areas of building science and technology research and addresses the current lack of research-method literature in this field. The book covers the use of measurement-based methods in which data is collected by measuring the properties and their variations in actual physical systems, simulation-based methods which work with models of systems or processes to describe, examine and analyze their behaviors, performances and operations, and data-driven methodologies in which data is collected via measurement or simulation to identify and examine the associations and patterns and predict the future in a targeted system. The book presents a survey of key methodologies in various specialized areas of building science and technology research including window systems, building enclosure, energy performance, lighting and daylighting, computational fluid dynamics, indoor and outdoor thermal comfort, and life cycle environmental impacts. Provides advanced insight into the research methods and presents the key methodologies within the field of building science and technology. Reviews simulation-based and experimentation/field-based methods of data collection and analysis in diverse areas of building science and technology, such as energy performance, window and enclosure studies, environmental LCA, daylighting, CFD, and thermal comfort. Provides a range of perspectives from building science faculty and researcher contributors with diverse research interests. Appropriate for use in university courses
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 21, 2021)
Subject Building -- Research -- Methodology
Architecture -- Research -- Methodology
Building -- Research -- Methodology
Form Electronic book
Author Azari, Rahman, 1979- editor.
Rashed-Ali, Hazem, editor
ISBN 9783030736927
303073692X