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Heat demand estimation for different building types at regional scale considering building parameters and urban topography

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Nils Christian Schüler, Alexandre Suzanne Jean-Marie Bertrand

This study aims towards an improved estimation of annual heat demand of the building stock for an entire region. This requires the holistic representation of aspects influencing the heat demand of buildings, namely their geometry, fabric, users and surroun ...

Elsevier2015

Human-Driven Daylighting: research perspectives and outlook

Marilyne Andersen

Daylighting opens up a range of topics of investigation at the interface between architecture and building technology, especially when focusing on the integration of building performance in design. While it has a strong impact on human health and well-bein ...

2013

Sun, Light and Space

Marilyne Andersen

As a building physicis engineer specialized in daylighting and passive solar strategies for buildings, Marilyne Andersen provides an overview of her pioneering work in comfort and health implications of daylight, and on low-energy building technologies. Wi ...

2013

The political economy of climate policy

Alexandra Quandt

Implementation of policies and measures is an important feature of effective climate policy design. In the political decision process, implementation depends to some extent on interest group influence. This project deals with business interest groups influ ...

2010

Business interest in Swiss climate policy

Alexandra Quandt

Successful implementation of policies and measures is key for effective climate legislation. In the political decision process, implementation depends to some extent on interest group influence. This project deals with the questions of why, how and what bu ...

2010

La densification des espaces urbains, une problématique contemporaine interrogée par le logement collectif

Frédéric Frank

The modern and contemporary city has given birth to vast peripheries due to rapid growth. A first glance at these areas reveals that architectural theories and urbanism paradigms encounter each other without fixed rules or regulated planning. Moreover, the ...

EPFL2009

Feature-based SLAM using relative quantities and structural knowledge

This thesis is about feature-based mobile robot navigation in unknown environments. The work is focusing on solving the problem of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) including feature extraction, estimation and complete map building solution. The ...

EPFL2008

Towards an improved architectural quality of building integrated solar thermal systems (BIST)

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

Architectural integration is a major issue in the development and spreading of solar thermal technologies. Yet the architectural quality of most existing building integrated solar thermal systems (BIST) is quite poor, which often discourages potential new ...

2007

From Thermal Collectors Integration to Active Façade Systems

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

One main step to ease facade integration of solar thermal is to conceive new collectors as multifunctional building elements. For flat plate hydraulic collectors (glazed and unglazed) the most natural added function is facade cladding. The new elements sho ...

2007

Correlation between SBS, perceived comfort, energy use and other building characteristics in european office and residential buildings

Claude-Alain Roulet

Within the European research project HOPE, 67 office buildings and 97 residential ones were investigated using checklists addressing the building characteristics and questionnaires to the occupants asking their perceived comfort (thermal visual, acoustical ...

2005

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