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Water is rarely considered to be a crucial aspect in sustainable housing. In fact, water sustainability in eco-districts and in ecological architecture is frequently limited to recycling and reuse solutions. Why less water? What could explain the choice of ...

2015

Sustainable architecture : towards integrated strategies from urban design to building component

The concept of sustainable development applied to built environment involves finding a long-term balance between environmental, socio-cultural and economic objectives. From an operational perspective, the challenge is to imagine concrete actions that foste ...

ACCO2015

Robustness Assessment Methodology for the Evaluation of Building Performance with a view to Climate Uncertainties

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Parag Rastogi

This paper describes a new methodology to assess the robustness of building performance in the long term with a probabilistic approach. The aim is to include uncertainties related to climate change predictions as well as the intrinsic uncertainties in weat ...

2015

Growth Typologies, Localities and Defamiliarisation Experiments with Artificial Urbanism in Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing

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The unprecedented speed of urbanization in Asia calls for a fundamental rethinking of urbanism. Conventional master plans typically propose a single static ‘end’ condition derived from top-down visions, often incapable of responding to site-specific microc ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2015

Modeling and assessing scenarios of common property pastures management in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur

Common property pastures (CPPs) in the Alps served as examples for successful self-governed resource use. During the past fewdecades, the situation has changed, and abandonment of marginal pastureswith subsequent forest regrowth has been widely observed. T ...

Elsevier2015

Seismic Behaviour and Design of Mixed RC-URM Wall Structures

Alessandro Paparo

In several countries of central Europe, many modern residential buildings are braced by reinforced concrete (RC) and unreinforced masonry (URM) walls coupled with RC slabs. Such mixed constructions, in fact, behave better under seismic loading than buildin ...

EPFL2015

An overview of W-BAN antennas designed at LEMA

Anja Skrivervik

W-BAN applications have been around since a long time, but have been experiencing a tremendous growth during the last decades. This results in the need of dedicated antennas, which are designed and optimized taking into account their lossy surroundings. De ...

2014

A sensitivity analysis on glare detection parameters

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Mandana Sarey Khanie, Yiyuan Jia

Maximizing daylight access while maintaining a glare-free indoor environment is an ongoing challenge for daylighting design. Glare is a discomfort sensation that is produced as a result of greater variation of luminance across the visual field than the one ...

2014

Introducing a multi-criteria indicator to better evaluate impacts of rare earth materials production and consumption in life cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is based on the basic principles of sustainable development. LCA method demonstrated its efficiency in providing a systematic environmental assessment approach of a product or a process. The effectiveness and efficiency of these ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Temperature-Aware Design and Management for 3D Multi-Core Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly

Vertically-integrated 3D multiprocessors systems-on-chip (3D MPSoCs) provide the means to continue integrating more functionality within a unit area while enhancing manufacturing yields and runtime performance. However, 3D MPSoCs incur amplified thermal ch ...

2014

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