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Green Facades and Living Walls—A Review Establishing the Classification of Construction Types and Mapping the Benefits

Sustainability, 2019
The green facades and living walls of vertical greenery systems (VGS) are gaining increasing importance as sustainable building design elements because they can improve the environmental impact of a building.
M. Radić, Marta Brković Dodig, T. Auer
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Energy simulations of a transparent-insulated office facade retrofit in London, UK [PDF]

, 2012
Purpose – Transparent insulation materials (TIMs) have been developed for application to building facades to reduce heating energy demands of a building.
Eames, Philip, Perera, Srinath, Wong, Ing Liang   +2 more
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Biomimetic building facades demonstrate potential to reduce energy consumption for different building typologies in different climate zones

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2021
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leading to anthropogenic global warming continue to be a major issue for societies worldwide. A major opportunity to reduce emissions is to improve building construction, and in particular the effectiveness of building ...
Matthew Webb
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Deployment and control of adaptive building facades for energy generation, thermal insulation, ventilation and daylighting: A review

, 2020
A major objective in the design and operation of buildings is to maintain occupant comfort without incurring significant energy use. Particularly in narrower-plan buildings, the thermophysical properties and behaviour of their facades are often an ...
H. Alkhatib, P. Lemarchand, Brian Norton, D. O’sullivan   +3 more
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Assessment of Green Building Materials’ Attributes to Achieve Sustainable Building Façades Using AHP

Buildings, 2021
The need to enhance the performance of building façades and mitigate adverse environmental impacts has promoted the hypothesis of integrating green materials towards sustainable buildings. Façade designers tend to select building materials based on their
Marwa M. Gomaa Mayhoub, Z. E. El Sayad, A. M. Ali, Mona G. Ibrahim   +3 more
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Sound fields near building facades: comparison of finite and semi-infinite reflectors on a rigid ground plane [PDF]

, 2009
The sound field in front of, and close to a building facade is relevant to the measurement and prediction of environmental noise and sound insulation. For simplicity it is often assumed that the facade can be treated as a semi-infinite reflector, however
Attenborough, C. Hopkins, Cox, Cremer, Delany, Hall, Hothersall, Ismail, Kawai, Quirt, Rindel, Terai, Y. Lam   +12 more
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Impact of Environmental Exposure Conditions on the Maintenance of Facades’ Claddings

Buildings, 2021
Façades, as the most external building envelope component, are subject to different ex-ternal environmental loads, such as: Temperature, precipitation, damp, and wind.
C. Ferreira, J. Barrelas, Ana Silva, J. de Brito, I. S. Dias, I. Flores-Colen   +5 more
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Effect of different reflection directional characteristics of building facades on outdoor thermal environment and indoor heat loads by CFD analysis

Urban Climate, 2021
Diffuse highly reflective (DHR) and specular reflective (SR) materials are widely used in current building facades for urban heat island (UHI) mitigation.
Jihui Yuan, C. Farnham, K. Emura
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LAI based trees selection for mid latitude urban developments: A microclimatic study in Cairo, Egypt [PDF]

, 2010
To study the leaf area index, LAI, based thermal performance in distinguishing trees for Cairo's urban developments, ENVI-met plants database was used as platform for a foliage modeling parameter, the leaf area density, LAD.
Aiad, Akbari, Ali-Toudert, Ali-Toudert, Ali-Toudert, Arnfield, Arnold, ASHRAE, ASHRAE, Bentley, Bruse, Bruse, Bruse, Dimoudi, Eliasson, Fahmy, Fahmy, Gidlof-Gunnarsson, Heliopolis and Company, Jacobs, Jonckheere, Kotzen, Kurn, Lalic, Lam, Law, Mahmoud Yahiya, McPherson, Meir, Mohamad Fahmy, Monteith, Montes, Nikolopoulou, Oke, Oke, Oke, Oke, Pearlmutter, Pierce, Sailor, Shashua-Bar, Stadt, Stephen Sharples, Taha, Thorsson, Trowbridge, USDA   +46 more
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CFD model-based analysis and experimental assessment of key design parameters for an integrated unglazed metallic thermal collector façade [PDF]

, 2020
Active façade systems incorporating solar thermal collectors currently offer very promising energetic solutions. From among the available systems, a simple solution is the unglazed heat collector for potential integration in low-temperature applications.
Blanco, J.M., Chica, J.A., Elguezabal, P., Lopez, A.   +3 more
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