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Fire safety of a novel concept of ventilated façade integrating Phase Change Materials [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesVentilated facades represent a modern solution increasingly adopted in smart, low-energy building designs. A critical consideration in the implementation of these systems is ensuring fire resistance while simultaneously minimizing the risk of fire ...
Ovadiuc Emanuil-Petru +4 more
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Towards Energy Demand Reduction in Social Housing Buildings: Envelope System Optimization Strategies [PDF]
, 2012 This work evaluates the potential for the reduction of energy demand in residential buildings by acting on the exterior envelope, both in newly constructed buildings and in the retrofitting of existing stock.
Domínguez Amarillo, Samuel +3 more
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Performance assessment of an unglazed solar thermal collector for envelope retrofitting [PDF]
, 2017 Present trends on solar thermal systems for building integration define the need of integrated solar technologies for façades. Although other possibilities exist for solar thermal systems in new buildings, solutions for a suitable integration of solar ...
Bonnamy, Paul +5 more
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Respectfully Excluded: Symbolic Violence, Space and Benevolent Sexism in Academia in Pakistan
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Feminist scholars have long recognized the gender‐based challenges that women in academia face. We undertake a qualitative study of how women in academic institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), a province in Pakistan, experience exclusion. We draw on narratives elicited through hypothetical vignettes from 10 women academics in KPK, collected
Fatima Junaid +2 more
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Assessing and benchmarking the performance of advanced building facades [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter describes the energy demand reshaping and supply technologies that may be encapsulated within an advanced building façade - for example, transparent and breathable insulation, advanced glazing, daylight capture, photovoltaic components and ...
Clarke, J.A., Johnstone, C.
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Moral Distress Among Family Caregivers: A Concept Analysis
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To examine and define the concept of moral distress among family caregivers by identifying its key attributes, antecedents and consequences. Design Concept analysis. Methods This study was guided by Walker and Avant's concept analysis framework.
Tharaa Ananzeh +4 more
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Improved Performance of a PV Integrated Ventilated Façade at an Existing nZEB
Proceedings, 2019 Ventilated façades are among the existing measures to reduce the energy demand in buildings. The combination of this passive heating and cooling strategy with photovoltaics (PV) can drive new buildings towards the current European targets for near or ...
Ana Tejero-González +3 more
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Optimization of insulation in ventilated hinged facade systems [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 The system of hinged ventilated facades is available for a long time and is now widely used in the construction of new and reconstruction of existing buildings for various purposes.
Maltseva Irina +3 more
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Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To explore the meaning of lived experiences of women with a hereditary risk of breast cancer who participate in surveillance of their breasts with magnetic resonance imaging. Design Hermeneutic phenomenology. Methods Interviews on two occasions were made with 14 women in the surveillance programme.
Ann‐Sofi Sjöqvist +3 more
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Fundamentals of hydraulic design for ventilated facades [PDF]
Строительство уникальных зданий и сооружений, 2013 Suspended facade system with ventilated air gap it is a special case of walling ventilated air gap. Flow of air is free-convection in vertical ventilated channel.
Yevgeniya Borisovna Yavtushenko
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