Engineers at Chicago-based Environmental Systems Design used Flomerics's Flovent computational fluid dynamics software to verify the design of the first university residence hall in Illinois to obtain a Gold rating under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system. ESD used the relatively new displacement ventilation approach in the mechanical design of Saint Xavier University's $9 million, 37,000-sf Arthur Rubloff Hall in order to reduce energy consumption.
“The simulation evaluated the comfort of the building under a wide range of conditions and demonstrated that the new design, which uses displacement ventilation, would not only be energy efficient but also comfortable and healthy,” said James Vallort, an ESD engineer.
ESD engineers used the Diffuser SmartPart (included with Flovent) to create compact models of the building's diffusers that closely match the performance of the physical diffusers without having to model their geometry in detail. The extract units in the ceiling, consisting of rings near the outer edges of the walls, were modeled using another Flovent SmartPart, called a Fixed Flow Device.
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