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Thermal resilience to overheating assessment in a Belgian educational building with passive cooling strategies during heatwaves and power outages [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Airtight and highly insulated educational buildings are subjected to overheating risks, even in moderate climates, due to unforeseeable events like frequent heatwaves (HWs) and power outages (POs) leading to heat-stress and negative impact on the health ...
Sengupta Abantika +3 more
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Evaluation of the spatial aspect of building resilience in classrooms equipped with displacement ventilation [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 Throughout their lifetime, buildings might face unpredictable shocks leading to fast deterioration of comfort levels. The ability of buildings and systems to absorb the shock and bring back the indoor conditions to their designed state is termed as ...
Al-Assaad Douaa +2 more
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Buildings, 2023 The building sector accounts for a significant proportion of global energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions. It is important to explore technological advances to curtail building energy usage to support the transition to a sustainable energy future ...
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Evaluation of in-depth energy modelling for the design and operation of a net-positive energy Solar Decathlon house [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 The Solar Decathlon is an international competition that challenges collegiate teams from around the world to design and build functioning, sustainable, solar powered houses.
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Building Sustainability Assessment [PDF]
Sustainability, 2010 Although social, economic, and cultural indicators are of substantial importance to the concept of sustainable building, this concept is usually related to environmental characteristics. Any building level assessment method is complex and involves contradictory aspects. Moreover, emphasizing qualitative criteria only increases confusion.
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Sensors, 2021 A new method and workflow to assess outdoor thermal comfort and thermal stress in urban areas is developed. The new methodology is applied to a case of an urban quarter in the city of Graz.
Daniel Rüdisser +2 more
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Thermal Monitoring and Simulation of Earthen Buildings. A Review
Energies, 2021 Since ancient times, raw earth has been used worldwide as a construction material. Today, it is well known for its good environmental properties of recyclability and low embodied energy along the production process.
Ariadna Carrobé +2 more
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IET Smart Grid, 2020 This study quantifies the benefits of implementing model predictive control on residential solar PV and energy storage systems considering a time-of-use demand tariff, feed-in tariff and varying PV system sizes and battery life-cycle costs.
Brendan Banfield +4 more
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Energies, 2022 Polyethylene has widely been used in radiative cooling applications because of high transmittance values in the atmospheric window. However, it presents optical and mechanical degradation when exposed to environmental conditions and must be replaced ...
Ingrid Martorell +4 more
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Energies, 2020 Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is technology that can significantly increase the share of renewable energy in final energy supply and are one of essential technologies for the nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB), new build and refurbished.
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