Survey dataset on architect׳s awareness and adoption of building envelope technologies for energy efficient housing in Lagos State. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2018 Low energy houses are forms of housing that use less energy from the design, technologies and building products from any source than a traditional or average contemporary house.
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Achieving net zero energy heating by integrating the building envelope as a thermal battery. [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Photovoltaic (PV) heating is a promising technology for achieving fossil fuel–free heating and carbon neutrality in the building sector. Cost-effective energy storage plays a critical role in PV heating to solve the temporal mismatch between ...
Zhi Y +6 more
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Građevinar, 2019 Buildings exert a considerable influence not only on outside environment, but also on human health, comfort, and productivity. In this interaction, the greatest role is assumed by the building envelope that acts as a filter permitting favourable external
Silvio Bašić +2 more
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The use of green roofs to improve wooden buildings for a future bioeconomy [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 Bioeconomy helps to move towards a renewable, fossil-free future. The environmental impact is significantly reduced when replacing fossil-based products with bio-based alternatives.
Brunklaus Birgit +2 more
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Data driven process for the energy assessment of building envelope retrofits [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 In the last decades, a growing industry has been created in relation to building envelope retrofits. Linked to the lack of financial capacity of many building owners, innovative instruments such as energy performance contracts have been promoted by ...
Garay-Martinez Roberto +5 more
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Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2022 Energy use in the building is responsible for one-third of total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions globally. Nearly half of the energy loss occurs through the building envelope due to heat transfer to/for the surroundings.
Dileep Kumar +3 more
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Case analysis of thermal defect detection of near-zero energy building envelope based on infrared thermography [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 The thermal performance of the envelope structure is one of the important components of the performance design of near-zero energy buildings. Minimizing envelope heat loss is the key to improving building energy efficiency.
Li Huanyu, Feng Guohui, Pu Yi, Wang Han
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BECOP: A New Metric for Measuring the Energy Performance of the Building Envelope
Buildings, 2022 Thermal properties of the building envelope (BE) prescribed by codes and standards do not provide a consistent and comprehensive measure of its performance.
Samir E. Chidiac, Ghassan E. Marjaba
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The effects of building layouts and envelope on indoor thermal environment of Hui style traditional buildings in Wuyuan [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Indoor thermal environment of Hui style traditional houses is depended on surrounding environments, building layouts and envelope. Quantitative analysis of the effects of building layouts and envelope on indoor thermal environment is of great ...
Hong Xiaowei +2 more
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Green envelope as an architectural strategy for energy efficiency in a library building [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 In the context of Malaysian tropical climate, green envelope functions to provide satisfying indoor environment and achieve the best performance with minimal energy consumption.
Ariff Azlan Ariff Ali +2 more
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