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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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Doris Österreicher and Stefan Sattler
The waste heat generated from the use of air conditioning systems in cities significantly contributes to the urban heat island effect (UHI) during the summer months. Thus, one of the key measures to mitigate this effect is to limit the use of active cool...
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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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Maddalena Marchelli, Valerio De Biagi and Daniele Peila
Net fences are among the most widespread passive protective measures to mitigate the risk from rockfall events. Despite the current design approach being based on partial safety factors, a more efficient time-dependent reliability approach has been recen...
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Mohd Munir Baharom,Noor Azean Atan,Mohd Shafie Rosli,Sanitah Yusof,Mohd Zolkifli Abd Hamid
Pág. pp. 95 - 109
The teaching and learning process no longer has its focus on the classroom. There are various teaching methods which teachers can use these days. However, the traditional, passive and teacher-oriented methods of teaching Science are still being widely us...
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Nooriati Taib,Zalila Ali
Pág. 348 - 353
One passive approach that can significantly reduce energy usage in high-rise buildings is through the creation of non-air conditioned spaces such as transitional spaces. Optimizing passive design would reduce wastage associated with the building?s energy...
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Simon Elias Bibri and John Krogstie
Sustainable urbanism is seen today as one of the keys towards unlocking the quest for a sustainable society. As a central paradigm of sustainable urbanism, the eco-city is promoted by global and local policies as one of the preferred responses to the cha...
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Najeeba Kutty, Dua Barakat and Maatouk Khoukhi
Cities are paying more attention to building energy use and carbon footprint for attaining sustainability. Within this building sector, there is a growing attention toward development and adoption of energy efficient retrofit strategies. Plagued by the l...
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Malgorzata Fedorczak-Cisak, Mark Bomberg, David W. Yarbrough, Lowell E. Lingo and Anna Romanska-Zapala
Protests during the 2021 Climate Conference in Glasgow exemplified our dilemma. The establishment perpetuates old thinking, while young people demand a new approach to mitigate the impact of climate change. The authors agree with the young people, and as...
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Farshid Shadram and Jani Mukkavaara
Building developers are continuously seeking solutions to increase saleable/rentable floor area and thus the profitability of investments, especially in large/dense cities where the real estate/rental values are high and shortage of available land result...
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