Environmentally Responsive Materials for Building Envelopes: A Review on Manufacturing and Biomimicry-Based Approaches [PDF]
Biomimetics, 2023 Buildings must adapt and respond dynamically to their environment to reduce their energy loads and mitigate environmental impacts. Several approaches have addressed responsive behavior in buildings, such as adaptive and biomimetic envelopes.
Maria De Los Ángeles Ortega Del Rosario +2 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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Moisture condensation on building envelopes in differential ventilated spaces in the tropics: quantitative assessment of influencing factors [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2016 Ventilation systems play a significant role in maintaining the indoor thermal and hygric balance. Nevertheless, the systems had been implicated to result in many problems.
Ali Maisarah +4 more
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Dynamic building envelopes [PDF]
, 2008 Chris Leung explains his recent research into deployable external insulation: dynamic facades which use paraffin wax and passive environmental technology to move between open and closed states and allow what has until now often been mutually ...
Leung, C., Gage, S.A.
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Drivers and barrios in using augmented reality in renovation projects - literature review [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases is of utter importance for the mitigation of climate change mitigation. In Sweden, the building and service sector is responsible for 21% of total greenhouse gas. Renovating existing buildings, more specifically
Jalilzadehazhari Elaheh +1 more
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Validation of Hygrothermal Simulations with Wall Performance Experiments in an Environmental Chamber [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Oak Ridge National Laboratory is developing a web tool, built on a rule-based expert system, that aids stakeholders in designing energy-efficient moisture-durable walls. Currently, the tool’s expert system database is mostly populated with expert opinion,
Salonvaara Mikael +4 more
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Influence of airtightness of steel sandwich panel joints on heat losses [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Energy saving ordinances requires that buildings must be designed in such a way that the heat transfer surface including the joints is permanently air impermeable.
Kuhnhenne Markus +3 more
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Energy Performance Analysis of Building Envelopes [PDF]
Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2021 The building sector has a high level of energy consumption caused mainly by the buildings heating and cooling energy demands to satisfy indoor comfort requirements.
Ibrahim Motawa +2 more
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Energy Efficiency Optimization in Residential Buildings Using Thermal Insulation Blocks Case Study in Cairo, Egypt [PDF]
JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2023 Thermal insulation blocks have recently been highly considered in hot weather countries according to their low thermal conductivity that can result in a considerable reduction in the demand for building HVAC systems energy and its related negative ...
Eslam Moraekip
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Energies, 2022 Thermal bridges in building envelopes can cause significant heat loss and heat gain. In this study, the developed thermal bridge breaker was applied to an interior insulation finishing system in residential buildings to minimize the thermal bridges in ...
Mi-Yeon Kim +3 more
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