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Passive systems for buildings using buoyancy-driven airflows [PDF]
, 2011 The need for countries to become less dependent on fossil fuels has been a determining factor in recent years due to increasing energy and comfort concerns in modern building design.
Abreu, Maria Isabel +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the housing and building sectors face the urgent challenge of decarbonization, attention is increasingly shifting beyond conventional efficiency strategies toward the principle of sufficiency. This study explores how sufficiency can reshape the housing landscape, although there is no standardized understanding of sufficiency in these ...
Anne Fischer, Marlen Gabriele Arnold
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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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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
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Energy Performance of the Opaque Ventilated Facade
Energy Procedia, 2015 AbstractThe goal of this study is to characterize the thermal performance of the opaque ventilated facade from sample-scale to building scale. To begin with, a representative sample has been built in order to test it in outdoor conditions using a traceable and precise methodology.
Iribar-Solaberrieta, E. +4 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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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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Dependencies of heat transmittance through the ventilated wall system on thermal conductivity of connectors crossing thermal insulation layer [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 The ventilated facade systems are widely used for improvement of energy efficiency and reducing of heat losses of newly built buildings and for existing buildings.
Levinskytė Aurelija +3 more
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Buildings for low energy air conditioning [PDF]
, 1998 Over half of global warming is thought to be attributable to the burning of fossil fuelsand slightly less than half of this is due to conditioning the environment withinbuildings.
Oreszczyn, T
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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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