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Ivan Lee, James A. Voogt and Terry J. Gillespie
With the expected increase in warmer conditions caused by climate change, heat-related illnesses are becoming a more pressing issue. One way that humans can protect themselves from this is to seek shade. The design of urban spaces can provide individuals...
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Simone Buffa, Mohammad Hossein Fouladfar, Giuseppe Franchini, Ismael Lozano Gabarre and Manuel Andrés Chicote
Peak shaving, demand response, fast fault detection, emissions and costs reduction are some of the main objectives to meet in advanced district heating and cooling (DHC) systems. In order to enhance the operation of infrastructures, challenges such as su...
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Laura Annabelle Bugenings and Aliakbar Kamari
Due to climate change, the rise in global temperature causes an increased need for cooling to satisfy occupants? thermal comfort. Application of architecture passive design strategies, so-called bioclimatic architecture strategies, based on the local cli...
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Flavia Laureti, Letizia Martinelli and Alessandra Battisti
As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life. The study presents an assessment of the existing therm...
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Flavia Laureti, Letizia Martinelli and Alessandra Battisti
As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life. The study presents an assessment of the existing therm...
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Michael Tesfaye Bekele and Cemil Atakara
Residential buildings have a list of functions, and one of the top priories is the thermal comfort of its occupants. Thermal comfort can be one of the measurements of successful building performance, and it can be addressed in various ways to provide a g...
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Roger Teoh, Ulrich Schumann and Marc E. J. Stettler
Contrail cirrus introduce a short-lived but significant climate forcing that could be mitigated by small changes in aircraft cruising altitudes. This paper extends a recent study to evaluate the efficacy of several vertical flight diversion strategies to...
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Eduardo González-Díaz, José Miguel Márquez-Martinón, Ana Pérez-García, Norena Martín-Dorta and Benjamín González-Díaz
Nowadays, a large amount of the total primary energy is consumed by buildings, accounting for about 40% of the total energy demand. Aligned with the EU objectives and the strategies to reduce the demand, cooling and heating are stated as the most energy ...
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Bahador Ziaeemehr, Zahra Jandaghian, Hua Ge, Michael Lacasse and Travis Moore
The Urban Heat Island (UHI), a consequence of urban development, leads to elevated temperatures within cities compared to their rural counterparts. This phenomenon results from factors such as urban designs, anthropogenic heat emissions, and materials th...
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Xuwei Zhu, Jiying Liu, Xiangyuan Zhu, Xiaole Wang, Yanqiu Du and Jikui Miao
The combined radiant floor and fan coil cooling (RFCAFC) system is widely used due to its high comfort and large energy saving potential. In this study, as an example, the combined RFCAFC system was studied in a high humidity environment in Jinan, Shando...
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Ambrose Dodoo and Joshua Ayarkwa
This study presents an analysis of the impacts of climate change on thermal comfort and energy performance of residential buildings in Ghana, in sub-Saharan Africa, and explores mitigation as well as adaptation strategies to improve buildings? performanc...
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Jin Woo Moon, Kyung-Il Chin and Sooyoung Kim
This study proposes an artificial neural network (ANN)-based thermal control method for buildings with double skin envelopes that has rational relationships between the ANN model input and output. The relationship between the indoor air temperature and s...
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Etienne Saloux
This paper summarizes the results of a Special Issue focusing on the practical applications of model predictive control and other advanced control methods in the built environment. This Special Issue contains eleven publications and deals with various to...
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Yajie Zhang, Behrang Vand and Simone Baldi
The Energy Management System (EMS) is an efficient technique to monitor, control and enhance the building performance. In the state-of-the-art, building performance analysis is separated into building simulation and control management: this may cause ina...
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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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Giles Thomson, Peter Newman, Dominique Hes, Jo Bennett, Mark Taylor and Ron Johnstone
The benefits of ecosystem services to cities are well documented; for example, water-sensitive urban design to mitigate stormwater flows and purify run-off, the cooling benefits provided by tree shade, and psychological benefits of urban greening. Cities...
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Andreas Rauh, Marit Lahme and Oussama Benzinane
Battery systems are one of the most important components for the development of flexible energy storage for future applications. These comprise energy storage in both the mobility sector and stationary applications. To ensure the safe operation of multip...
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Jorge Fernandes, Carlos Pimenta, Ricardo Mateus, Sandra Monteiro Silva and Luís Bragança
Solar passive strategies that have been developed in vernacular architecture from different regions are a response to specific climate effects. These strategies are usually simple, low-tech and have low potential environmental impact. For this reason, se...
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Sergio Vera, Martín Ordenes
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A fundamental objective to design a habitable space is to assure the occupants thermal comfort, considering anenergy use compatible with the activities developed in this space. The social housing does not fulfill this objective in Chile,due to: (1) Housi...
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Mingke Li, Kepeng Huang and Xuemei Yi
Laser cladding, a novel surface treatment technology, utilizes a high-energy laser beam to melt diverse alloy compositions and form a specialized alloy-cladding layer on the surface of the substrate to enhance its property. However, it can generate subst...
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