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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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Yu-Jeong Lee, Sang-Hee Kim, Ji-Hye Ryu and Kweon-Hyoung Lee
The world is emphasizing the need for building design that considers energy performance to deal with climate problems. South Korea has constantly been tightening the design standards for saving building energy but with a focus on thermal performance and ...
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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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Amany Khalil, Anas M. Hosney Lila and Nouran Ashraf
The climate change crisis has resulted in the need to use sustainable methods in architectural design, including building form and orientation decisions that can save a significant amount of energy consumed by a building. Several previous studies have op...
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Nabil Nassif, Mostafa Tahmasebi, Iffat Ridwana and Pejman Ebrahimi
Buildings account for a large portion of the total energy use in the US; therefore, improving the operation of typical variable-air-volume (VAV) systems in buildings can provide a tremendous economic opportunity. ASHRAE Guideline 36 recommends a resettin...
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Ki-Yeob Kang, Xiangyu Wang, Jun Wang, Shuyuan Xu, Wenchi Shou and Yanhui Sun
To scrutinize the current application of building information modelling (BIM) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) integration in research as well as industrial fields, the present study conducted a holistic review including a bibliometric exploration ...
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Bongchan Jeong, Jungsoo Kim, Zhenjun Ma, Paul Cooper and Richard de Dear
Air conditioning (A/C) is generally responsible for a significant proportion of total building energy consumption. However, occupants? air conditioning usage patterns are often unrealistically characterised in building energy performance simulation tools...
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Dragan Katic, Hrvoje Krstic and Sa?a Marenjak
This paper is part of broader research aimed at determining the relationship between energy performance and energy costs as a part of the operational and life cycle costs in school buildings in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), as exceptio...
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Jorge González, Carlos Alberto Pereira Soares, Mohammad Najjar and Assed N. Haddad
Linking Building Information Modelling and Building Energy Modelling methodologies appear as a tool for the energy performance analysis of a dwelling, being able to build the physical model via Autodesk Revit and simulating the energy modeling with its c...
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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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Giacomo Cillari, Fabio Fantozzi and Alessandro Franco
Optimization of passive solar strategies to minimize building energy demand.
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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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Building energy performance tools are widely used to simulate the expected energy consumption of a given building during the operation phase of its life cycle. Deviations between predicted and actual energy consumptions have however been reported as a ma...
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Fahimeh Rezvani,Ignacio Zabalza Bribián
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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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The objective of this paper is to analyze the control conditions of the transmittance rate, and determine the conditions that are most optimal with respect to building energy and daylight performance in three climate conditions: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (hot...
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Georgios Eleftheriadis and Mohamed Hamdy
Through monitoring of buildings, it can be proven that the performance of envelope elements and energy supply systems deteriorates with time. The results of this degradation are higher energy consumption and life cycle costs than projected in the buildin...
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Jian Yao and Rongyue Zheng
Occupant behavior has a significant impact on building energy performance. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the stochastic characteristics of manual solar shades and their influence on building energy performance. A co-simulation for occupants? s...
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Annamaria Buonomano
In this paper details about the results of a code-to-code validation procedure of an in-house developed building simulation model, called DETECt, are reported. The tool was developed for research purposes in order to carry out dynamic building energy per...
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