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Stéphane Sanquer

Product manager "Building and city planning" and natural ventilation expert at Meteodyn. PhD in Aerodynamics and thermics, I'm specialized in applied research in wind effects in urban area : pedestrian wind comfort, wind load on buildings and natural air ventilation.

Natural ventilation

Wind Thermal Comfort and Natural Ventilation Evaluation

6 avril 2017 0 Stéphane Sanquer

Study by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos – KE Fibertec wind consultant Eric Hernandez Desentis is the general manager of KE Fibertec in Mexico. KE Fibertec AS develops air distribution systems based on fibre technology. Their purpose is to ensure good indoor climate.…

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Building Simulation Conference 2015

17 août 2015 0 Stéphane Sanquer

December 7-9 – Hyberabad India, 14th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association. The conference is about building energy analysis and performance simulation. Building designers, architects, sustainability managers, researchers and developers will debate and share experience about new…

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AIVC conference: effective natural ventilation in high performance buildings

12 juin 2015 0 Stéphane Sanquer

The 36th AIVC conference will be held in Madrid – Spain. September 23 – 24. The building sector plays a key role to be successful in reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Development of new regulations and high performance…

Pedestrian comfort

Novus Environmental Experience – Illustrating differences of meteorological data on pedestrian wind comfort analysis

6 janvier 2015 0 Stéphane Sanquer

In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pedestrian wind studies are required for new developments, as the construction of new buildings (particularly tall buildings) can influence wind patterns at grade. To properly assess these wind conditions, the local climate in the vicinity of…

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CFD urban wind computation makes great improvements

18 décembre 2014 0 Stéphane Sanquer

Urban wind computation based on CFD can be used by architects, urban planners and green building consultants who need to assess the wind in urban areas. CFD technology namely computation of the wind flow remains a solution for non-specialist. UrbaWind software…

Pedestrian comfort

Differences between the reference wind at the reference station and the real wind in urban area

9 mai 2014 0 Stéphane Sanquer

Wind assessment in urban places becomes necessary as soon as comfort, wind energy production, natural ventilation potential should be assess. From a “green building point of view”, the knowledge of the urban climatology i.e. the wind around the buildings is…

Pedestrian comfort

ENVIE Experience – A 3D multi-criteria tool dedicated to city planners

9 mai 2014 0 Stéphane Sanquer

Everyone has ever met this situation for an urban walk. A pedestrian along the walkway crosses quiet places and suddenly is blown after the corner of the building. Venturi effects, wake effects, swirl effects or wise effects are scientific words…

Pedestrian comfort

Example of pedestrian comfort assessment with numerical solutions

9 mai 2014 0 Stéphane Sanquer

SOCRI, the developer of the Polygon Riviera project in Cagnes-sur-Mer, an opencast 94,000 sqm shopping complex designed by L35 which includes a cinema multiplex, a bowling, a fitness center, business premises and a hundred shops, wanted to assess the influence…

Natural ventilation

How numerical solutions provide valuable results for building engineering ?

6 mai 2014 0 Stéphane Sanquer

At the Réunion Island, trade winds are moderate on the north side of the island. The climatology behaviours The average velocity is close to 2 m/s at 10 metres above the ground and the buildings may be natural ventilated in…

Author Archives

Stéphane Sanquer

Wind Thermal Comfort and Natural Ventilation Evaluation

Building Simulation Conference 2015

AIVC conference: effective natural ventilation in high performance buildings

Novus Environmental Experience – Illustrating differences of meteorological data on pedestrian wind comfort analysis

CFD urban wind computation makes great improvements

Differences between the reference wind at the reference station and the real wind in urban area

ENVIE Experience – A 3D multi-criteria tool dedicated to city planners

Example of pedestrian comfort assessment with numerical solutions

How numerical solutions provide valuable results for building engineering ?

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