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Sustainability and the 21st Century Vertical City: A Review of Design Approaches of Tall Buildings
Buildings, 2018 As cities cope with rapid population growth—adding 2.5 billion dwellers by 2050—and grapple with destructive sprawl, politicians, planners, and architects have become increasingly interested in the vertical city paradigm.
Kheir Al-Kodmany
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Feasibility Study and Passive Design of Nearly Zero Energy Building on Rural Houses in Xi’an, China
Buildings, 2022 Since the advent of reforms and opening-up of China, the focus has been on urban development. However, rural development has garnered attention in recent years.
Han Chang +4 more
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Bioclimatic Design of Low-Cost Rural Dwellings
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 Bioclimatic design is a crucial strategy to achieving the eco-friendliness, human-friendliness, and energy-friendliness of the built environment. The building patterns, materials, innovation, and use depend on the inhabitant’s choices, lifestyle, and ...
Mahadev Bera, Pranab Kumar Nag
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Paragraphs Environmental Design, 2023 Indonesia is a tropical climate, hence building controlling air ventilation and humid condition have been a challenge to meet residents’ convenience. It is often energy usage that is majorly used to control indoor air climate circulation.
Anastasia E Sumanti +5 more
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Design Approaches and Measuring Methods of Self-shading Buildings: Comprehensive Analyses [PDF]
JES: Journal of Engineering SciencesGrowing attention has been paid to different building shading strategies, especially self-shading techniques. Hence, researchers have explored various building design approaches for optimizing and evaluating self-shading performance.
Sara Hamed, Shawkat Elkady, Amr Youssef
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Climate based facade design for business buildings with examples from central London [PDF]
, 2015 There is a disconnection between commercial architecture and environmental thinking, where green features can be included as part of a strategy for gaining approvals and marketing projects, but those features are not reviewed after completion and ...
Napier, John D.
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Optimal design of single-tuned passive filters using response surface methodology [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents an approach based on Response Surface Methodology (RSM) to find the optimal parameters of the single-tuned passive filters for harmonic mitigation.
Abdel Aleem, SHE +4 more
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Japan Architectural Review, 2018 We covered a rectangular site in a residential area oriented at a 45° angle to the north and rotated the roof of the second floor on top of the rectangular first floor; then, we created a large window on the side at the south corner.
Kaoru Suehiro +4 more
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Atmosphere, 2023 The UK government has announced its ten-point plan to annually install 600,000 low-carbon heat pumps by 2028. However, there is a lack of evidence showing potential overheating risk in dwellings retrofitted with heat pumps.
Sahar Zahiri, Rajat Gupta
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Climate-Conscious Sustainable Practices in the Romanian Building Sector
BuildingsClimate change refers to a significant and measurable alteration in the climate’s state, evident through shifts in the average and variability of key climate factors.
Miruna Cristina Boca +2 more
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