Climate-Adaptive Façades with an Air Chamber
Buildings, 2022 The development of energy-efficient technologies at all stages of a building’s life cycle is essential to achieving sustainable development goals. The object of the study is climate-adaptive façade structures with air gaps in the form of a Trombe wall ...
Irina Leonidovna Vasileva +4 more
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Adaptive comfort control implemented model (ACCIM) for energy consumption predictions in dwellings under current and future climate conditions: A case study located in Spain [PDF]
, 2019 Currently, the knowledge of energy consumption in buildings of new and existing dwellings is essential to control and propose energy conservation measures.
Bienvenido-Huertas, David +3 more
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Recovering industrial heritage: restoration of the wine cellar cooperative in Falset (Catalonia, Spain) [PDF]
, 2019 Awareness regarding conservation of industrial heritage is recent. Several policies have been adopted to start protecting these buildings because of their historic, artistic and scientific values.
Cornadó Bardón, Còssima +2 more
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Towards New Metrics for the Characterisation of the Dynamic Performance of Adaptive Façade Systems
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2018 Traditional façade characterisation metrics such as U-value and g-value are of limited value in the design process of buildings with adaptive façades.
Lorenza Bianco +9 more
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Smart wall by wireless sensor network toward building energy optimization [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 Buildings design and operation are responsible for occupant comfort. Buildings facades and walls can be engineered to control solar energy for photovoltaic electricity generation, daylighting, heating, ventilation, thermal insulation, and energy storage.
Doublali Asmaa +3 more
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How plants inspire façades. From plants to architecture: Biomimetic principles for the development of adaptive architectural envelopes [PDF]
, 2017 Façades have an important role in the control of energy waste in buildings, nevertheless most of them are designed to provide static design solutions, wasting large amounts of energy to maintain the internal comfort.
Croxford, B +3 more
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Review on the use of FRP composites for fa\ue7ades and building skins [PDF]
, 2016 Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites represent a class of materials typically able to offer excellent mechanical, thermal and insulation properties, taking advantage of a combination of their constitutive fibers and polymers.
Bedon, Chiara
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Development of stochastic models of window state changes in educational buildings [PDF]
, 2019 How people would like to interact with surrounding environment will subsequently influence indoor thermal conditions and further impact building energy performance.
Haldi F +5 more
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Study of a BIPV Adaptive System
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2018 The paper presents the first results of research that was partly conducted within the framework of European COST Action TU1403 – Adaptive Façades Network, on the development of an adaptive BIPV (Building Integrated Photovoltaic) solution able to change ...
Enrico Sergio Mazzucchelli +3 more
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Adaptive facade systems - review of performance requirements, design approaches, use cases and market needs [PDF]
, 2015 The paper reflects the work of COST Action TU1403 Workgroup 3/Task group 1. The aim is to identify research needs from a review of the state of the art of three aspects related to adaptive facade systems: (1) dynamic performance requirements; (2) facade ...
Almeida, Manuela Guedes de +9 more
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