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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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Investigation of the Energy Performance of a Novel Modular Solar Building Envelope [PDF]
Energies, 2017 The major challenges for the integration of solar collecting devices into a building envelope are related to the poor aesthetic view of the appearance of buildings in addition to the low efficiency in collection, transportation, and utilization of the ...
Gang Ren +4 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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Photovoltaics in the Building Envelope
Challenging Glass Conference ProceedingsPhotovoltaics in façades are currently enjoying great popularity, also as a way of contributing to renewable energy production. There are various subsidy programmes to promote the installation of photovoltaics.
Barbara Siebert, Geralt Siebert
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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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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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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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Thermal performance optimization of parametric building envelope based on bio-mimetic inspiration
Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2021 Thermal performance of building envelope is acquired a great deal of global interest. Recently, algorithms are used in architecture for generating inspired shapes from nature which could effect on thermal performance.
Wael Salah Mansour Abdel-Rahman
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