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SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE LEVELS

Journal of Engineering, 2008
 Sustainable architecture has became one of the most important architectural concepts on earth today because of the energy crises. Architecture is concerned as the largest energy consuming field ,so that one of the main goals of modern architecture is ...
عمار سالم
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Assessing Social Sustainability for Achieving Sustainable Architecture [PDF]

Sustainability, 2020
Sustainability is an inherent urban and architectural problem. It is simultaneously characterized by many different dimensions, pursuing heterogeneous and often conflicting objectives. To help address these complexities in a structured way, this paper illustrates an integrated assessment framework to tackle social sustainability, in order to support ...
Lami I. M., Mecca B.
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Effect of the cooling clothing integrating with phase change material on the thermal comfort of healthcare workers with personal protective equipment during the COVID-19

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2023
Wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is essential to protect healthcare workers during the COVID-19, but the traditional cooling methods do not meet the requirements of epidemic prevention during the COVID-19.
Chenxi Hu, Zihe Wang, Renfei Bo, Canyang Li, Xi Meng   +4 more
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Performance Assessment and Comparative Analysis of Photovoltaic-Battery System Scheduling in an Existing Zero-Energy House Based on Reinforcement Learning Control

Energies, 2023
The development of distributed renewable energy resources and smart energy management are efficient approaches to decarbonizing building energy systems. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a data-driven control algorithm that trains a large amount of data to ...
Wenya Xu, Yanxue Li, Guanjie He, Yang Xu, Weijun Gao   +4 more
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Inclination angles on the thermal behavior of Phase-Change Material (PCM) in a cavity filled with copper foam partly

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021
In this study, the influence of the inclination angle was analyzed on the thermal behavior of PCM in the cavity filled with copper foam fins. Twelve inclination angles from 0° to 360° were studied for the thermal storage unit, while the two-temperature ...
Xi Meng, Shuhan Liu, Junlong Zou, Fudan Liu, Jiahui Wang   +4 more
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An experimental study of thermal comfort zone extension in the semi-open spray space

Developments in the Built Environment, 2023
Pedestrians will experience different heat stress stages from sunlight to semi-open spray space as they shuttle through stations with spray systems.
Yi Gao, Li Meng, Canyang Li, Liming Ge, Xi Meng   +4 more
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Sustainable Architecture

, 2022
The dimension of sustainability in architecture requires the definition of new design trajectories concerning buildings but also the surrounding environment, reasoning on the entire complex of the architectural and spatial human habitat. Being sustainable means, from one side, meeting our needs without compromising the ability of future generations to ...
Frighi, Stanislav Kolisnychenko
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Employing a fan to improve the wintery heating performance of solar air collectors with phase-change material: An experimental comparison

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2023
Solar Air Collectors integrated with Phase-Change Material (SAC-PCM) were widely used for wintery heating with the superiority of overcoming the mismatch shortcoming between supply and demand time from solar heating.
Renfei Bo, Wenkai Fu, Xi Meng, Ge Zhang
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Towards Improving Rural Living Environment for Chinese Cold Region Based on Investigation of Thermal Environment and Space Usage Status

Buildings, 2022
In recent years, many scholars worldwide have carried out research related to the relationship between the construction of rural dwellings and the indoor thermal environment in response to the issue of building sustainability.
Tao Zhang, Yuechen Duan, Zhuangqing Jiao, Xin Ye, Qinian Hu, Hiroatsu Fukuda, Weijun Gao   +6 more
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Experimental Characterization of the Optical Performance of Concentrating Photovoltaic Glazing (CoPVG) Systems

Energies, 2023
An experiment was conducted to test the optical efficiency of the lenses of the Concentrating Photovoltaic Glazing (CoPVG) concept. The CoPVG is a seasonal glazing system consisting of longitudinal prismatic lenses.
Mohammad Ghoraishi, Trevor Hyde, Aggelos Zacharopoulos, Jayanta Deb Mondol, Adrian Pugsley   +4 more
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