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Applied Sciences, 2023 Future weather scenarios significantly affect indoor thermal comfort, influencing people’s well-being and productivity at work. Thus, future weather scenarios should be considered in the design phase to improve a building’s climate change resilience for ...
Veronika Elisabeth Richter +3 more
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Future trends and main concepts of adaptive facade systems
Energy Science & Engineering, 2020 There is a growing interest in adaptive facade technologies to counter overheating problems and well‐being concerns in smart and high‐performance buildings.
Shady Attia +2 more
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Assessing the effect of a classroom IEQ on student satisfaction, engagement and performance [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Inappropriate indoor environmental quality (IEQ) conditions are shown to reduce occupants’ satisfaction, wellbeing and performance. Therefore, it is crucial to provide an excellent classroom IEQ in order to minimize learning loss among students.
Carton Quinten +3 more
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Personal Climatization Systems—A Review on Existing and Upcoming Concepts
Applied Sciences, 2018 To accomplish the current climate goals of the federal republic of Germany, energy efficiency within the building and automotive sector must improve considerably. One possible way to reduce the high amount of energy required for heating, ventilation, and
Alexander Warthmann +3 more
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A Framework for User Centric LCA Tool Development for Early Planning Stages of Buildings
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 As the high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by the construction and real estate sector receive more attention, more and more countries include an environmental assessment of buildings based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in their building ...
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Energy Informatics, 2022 Using optimization to design a renewable energy system has become a computationally demanding task as the high temporal fluctuations of demand and supply arise within the considered time series.
Tobias Blanke +5 more
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The impact of the internal hydrophobisation on the properties and durability of cement-based materials [PDF]
MATEC Web of ConferencesThe presented study investigates the impact of internal hydrophobization by using an organosilicon admixture based on triethoxyoctylsilane on the properties and durability of cement-based materials.
Materak Kalina +2 more
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Circularity at the neighbourhood scale: co-creative living lab lessons
Buildings & CitiesThe transition to a circular economy is a challenging problem for the built environment, as circularity is not a well-understood term, nor do societal stakeholders have a common vision.
Jesse Honsa +3 more
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AIMS Environmental Science, 2021 A large proportion of the earth's resource turnover is caused by building and construction activities. There are also many health and safety problems related to the built environment. All these effects are contained in the concept of sustainability.
Lars-Åke Mikaelsson, Jonas Jonasson
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Do Sustainable Buildings Inspire More Sustainable Buildings?
Procedia Engineering, 2016 AbstractSustainable buildings offer numerous social benefits including improved health and productivity for occupants. This study adds to this growing body of knowledge to suggest benefits extend to influence occupant consideration for sustainability. In an undergraduate civil engineering senior “capstone” course, students were given a mock request for
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