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BuildingsThe number of coffee shops in China is rapidly increasing, and they are becoming a gathering place for young people. In order to enhance their competitiveness, the design of coffee shops has become the core force of competition.
Shaochen Wang, Yang Song
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Heliyon, 2020 Buildings in Iraqi cities such as Baghdad and Mosul suffer from several problems such as the application of new materials in modern buildings that changed not just the identity of architectural heritage but also the quality of thermal comfort in façade ...
Tamarah A. Alqalami
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Photovoltaic design integration at Battery Park City, New York [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is a study of the photovoltaic (PV) systems in the buildings’ design of the Battery Park City (BPC) residential development, in New York.
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Our promising smart window exhibits exceptional optical properties, enabling the indoor temperature reduction of 12°C during summer and delivering the annual energy savings of 14.2%–24.4% across mid–to–low latitudes. ABSTRACT Building energy consumption accounts for 20%–40% of global energy usage, with windows among the least energy–efficient ...
Cheng Wang +11 more
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BuildingsThe adaptive façades serve as the interface between the indoor and outdoor energy of the building. Adaptive façade optimization design can improve daylighting performance, the thermal environment, view performance, and solar energy utilization efficiency,
Ping Chen, Hao Tang
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Assessing and benchmarking the performance of advanced building facades [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter describes the energy demand reshaping and supply technologies that may be encapsulated within an advanced building façade - for example, transparent and breathable insulation, advanced glazing, daylight capture, photovoltaic components and ...
Clarke, J.A., Johnstone, C.
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Noël Coward and the Sitwells: enmity, celebrity, popularity [PDF]
, 2015 In 1923, the year of the first public performance of Edith Sitwell and William Walton's Façade, Noël Coward satirized the Sitwell siblings in his sketch “The Swiss Family Whittlebot.” The result was an enduring feud between Coward and the Sitwells that ...
Hammill, Faye
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Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.A multimodal strategy creates efficient semi‐transparent perovskite solar cells with a record 4.29% light utilization efficiency and 22.41% indoor performance. This approach enables the first scalable 30 x 30 cm2 semi‐transparent solar module, highlighting its potential for building‐integrated and indoor photovoltaics.
Siming Huang +16 more
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios +4 more
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Simulating the thermal and daylight performances of a folded porous double façade for an office building in Cairo [PDF]
, 2015 The application of Double Skin Facades (DSFs) in climates is limited and their potential benefits are still under investigation. Moreover, daylight and thermal performances of the double façade are rarely studied together.
Elahmar, SALMA ASHRAF SAAD +1 more
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