A new educational concept for whole building heat, air & Moisture simulation

The objective of the paper is to present a new educational concept for improving the accessibility to whole building Heat, Air & Moisture (HAM) simulation models developed in the simulation environment HAMLab. We provided a library of buildings, including the default performances of the buildings themselves, on a website. Students can select the most appropriate building, adapt the input parameters, simulate and evaluate the results. In case a higher resolution is required, two steps explain how to implement respectively advanced controllers and HAM details. The following results are presented: First, a brief overview of the types of buildings, already present at the website; Second, a short description of a developed guideline; Third, the use of the guideline by a case study and Fourth, evaluation of the results. It is concluded that the accessibility to the whole building HAM simulation model HAMLab has been improved by the new concept. Moreover, the website and all HAMLab models are public domain so that every Matlab-user has access to state-of-art HAM building models.