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Cheng Lin and Yunting Lin
Recently, metaheuristic algorithms have been recognized as applicable techniques for solving various computational complexities in energy problems. In this work, a powerful metaheuristic technique called the water cycle algorithm (WCA) is assessed for an...
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Vidhya Maney Surendran, Chandramathy Irulappan, Vijayalaxmi Jeyasingh and Velraj Ramalingam
This study aims to propose building envelope retrofit packages for existing naturally ventilated school buildings in the hot?humid climatic region of Chennai, India. Indoor thermal parameters were collected through field studies from nine sample classroo...
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Siliang Yang, Francesco Fiorito, Alistair Sproul and Deo Prasad
Energy used in buildings is mainly attributed to provide the desired thermal comfort, which could result in an increase in carbon emission and, in turn, lead to further environmental degradation. A Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Double-Skin Façade (BIP...
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Jan Kosny, Jay Thakkar, Tlegen Kamidollayev, Margaret J. Sobkowicz, Juan Pablo Trelles, Cordula Schmid, Sampson Phan, Saibhargav Annavajjala and Peter Horwath
PCMs are attractive for the future generation of buildings, where energy efficiency targets and thermal comfort expectations are increasingly prioritized. Experimental analysis of local thermal processes in these dynamic components and whole-building ene...
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Veronika Elisabeth Richter, Marc Syndicus, Jérôme Frisch and Christoph van Treeck
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 ...
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Dong Xie and Kun Li
In recent years, the waterway navigation and transportation industry has been developing rapidly, and the living environment of ship cabins has not received much attention. Using questionnaire surveys, data collection and computer simulations, this study...
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Ivan Julio Apolonio Callejas, Raquel Moussalem Apolonio, Emeli Lalesca Aparecida da Guarda, Luciane Cleonice Durante, Karyna de Andrade Carvalho Rosseti, Filipa Roseta and Leticia Mendes do Amarante
Climate change impact is one of the most important global concerns at present. In the building environment, climate-responsive design may help to enhance the adaptation capacity through a better building energy performance. In this sense, this study addr...
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Aiman Albatayneh, Dariusz Alterman, Adrian Page and Behdad Moghtaderi
To design energy-efficient buildings, energy assessment programs need to be developed for determining the inside air temperature, so that thermal comfort of the occupant can be sustained. The internal temperatures could be calculated through computationa...
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Fahimeh Rezvani,Ignacio Zabalza Bribián
Pág. 311 - 322
Energy diagnosis and check of the energy performance of traditional houses are becoming urgent and essential to achieving energy saving in the residential sector. The paper presents the results of experimental studies focused on the enhancement of ...
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Qi Zhou, Pin-Feng Liu, Chun-Ta Tzeng and Chi-Ming Lai
This study combines microencapsulated phase change materials (mPCMs) (core material: paraffin; melting points: 37 and 43 °C) and aluminum honeycomb boards (8 mm core cell) to form mPCM roof modules and investigates their heat absorption and release perfo...
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Hery Tiana Rakotondramiarana, Tojo Fanomezana Ranaivoarisoa and Dominique Morau
Green roofs improve building energy performance and constitute an alternative to sustainable buildings. A green roof model is dynamically coupled with a building thermal model to assess its energy performance that takes into account the indoor air temper...
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Ziyang Hao, Jingchao Xie, Xiaojing Zhang and Jiaping Liu
This study provides a reference for estimating the building envelope thermal performance at the initial stage of design for nearly zero-energy buildings in different climate zones. A simplified model of heat load prediction, which combines the quasi-stea...
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Indra Permana, Fujen Wang, Hungwen Lin and Johnwin Siew
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Abdullah A. AlZahrani, Abdulrahman A. Alghamdi and Ahmad A. Basalah
Three-dimensional printing technologies are transforming various sectors with promising technological abilities and economic outcomes. For instance, 3D-printed concrete (3DPC) is revolutionizing the construction sector with a promise to cut projects? cos...
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Sofia Malanho, Rosário Veiga and Catarina Brazão Farinha
Rehabilitation of facades may be carried out with the application of External Thermal Insulation Systems (ETICS). Their main contribution is the increase of the energy efficiency of buildings. In the literature, hygrothermal, impact and fire performance ...
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Lobna Hassan Ali Hassan Elgheriani,Parid Wardi,AbdulBasit Ali Ali Ahmed
Pág. 357 - 366
Natural ventilation is an effectual passive design approach to create a better indoor thermal condition as well as energy efficiency. The primary goal of building design is providing a healthy and comfortable indoor environment titled as sustainable arch...
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Shaghayegh Mohammad and Andrew Shea
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Herry Pintardi Chandra
Pág. pp. 16 - 23
Factors in building system design have target in achieving maximum performance when they have proper correlation with total performance and building integrity. The purpose of this research is to find out the influence of building system: structural, enve...
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Francesco Asdrubali, Cinzia Buratti, Franco Cotana, Giorgio Baldinelli, Michele Goretti, Elisa Moretti, Catia Baldassarri, Elisa Belloni, Francesco Bianchi, Antonella Rotili, Marco Vergoni, Domenico Palladino and Daniele Bevilacqua
The evaluation of the overall performance of a green building is complex, since many construction, energy and environmental aspects have to be considered. The Umbria Region in Italy, through various public tenders, recently funded several residential bui...
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Bojan Milovanovic, Marina Bagaric, Mergim Ga?i and Nikolina Vezilic Strmo
This paper proposes an improvement of the conventional Lightweight Steel Frame (LSF) wall structure suitable for the design of high-performance modular buildings. A mobile module, named MUZA, is used as a case study building to analyse the performance of...
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