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Energy demand and urban microclimate of old and new residential districts in a hot arid climate

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Sameh Monna

Different climates may need different design strategies for optimal thermal performance of buildings: the relationship between different texture of the cities (their form and morphology), the energy demand of buildings and the outdoor microclimate are esse ...

2016

The traditional house with horizontal opening: a trend towards zeroenergy house in the hot, dry climates

Claude-Alain Roulet

The aim of this article is to study by numerical simulation with the TRNSYS-COMIS software, the thermo-aeraulic behavior of a traditional house with a horizontal opening in the central space of the house, and in the city of Kenadsa (southwestern Algeria, h ...

Elsevier2016

The traditional house with horizontal opening: a trend towards zero-energy house in the hot, dry climates

Claude-Alain Roulet

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Assessing the bioclimatic features of historic architecture in contemporary cities

Hélène Yvette Claudine Monari, Guillaume Charles Johan Rouff soit Rueff

Since the second half of the XX century, the way new urban areas have risen next to the ancient/traditional parts of cities has been vastly unsystematic, often altering the original natural landscape and/or urban morphology significantly. This has sometime ...

2016

Measurement of ammonia emissions from temperate and sub-polar seabird colonies

Julia Schmale

The chemical breakdown of marine derived reactive nitrogen transported to the land as seabird guano represents a significant source of ammonia (NH3) in areas far from other NH3 sources. Measurements made at tropical and temperate seabird colonies indicate ...

2016

Sustainable policy—key considerations for air quality and climate change

Julia Schmale

Air quality and climate change are inexorably linked from theiremission sources to their impacts on climate, human health, andecosystems, including agriculture. However, in globalenvironmental change and sustainability policies the linkbetween air quality ...

2016

The sensitivity of predicted energy use to urban geometrical factors in various climates

Marilyne Andersen, Émilie Nault, Parag Rastogi

Urban morphology, including building typology and layout, has a significant influence on the built environment’s access to the sun, which impacts its energy exchange with the environment. This energy exchange is a strong factor in determining the comfort l ...

2015

Influence of surface shapes on the mechanical behaviour of friction welded wood bonds

Yves Weinand, Bernhard Stamm, Benjamin Hahn

Friction welding of wood is a fast and adhesive-free bonding technology for the production of timber joints with good mechanical characteristics making this type of connection interesting for applications in timber construction. However, the moisture stabi ...

Springer2015

Influence of the residential building typology on the thermal comfort and energy needs in various Algerian climates

Claude-Alain Roulet

This paper addresses the effect of the type of habitat on thermal comfort and energy requirements for heating and cooling for 7 Algerian cities located in different climatic zones of the country. Our choice is focused on four buildings: two traditional hou ...

2015

MEDITERRANEAN ACTIVE HOUSE: ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE AND USERS IMPACT ON ENERGY AND INDOOR COMFORT IN THE NEW EFFICIENCY STANDARD FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS

Arianna Brambilla

Active House is a new vision of sustainability for buildings, that aims to promote a new way of thinking about sustainability itself. The goal of the vision is to create healthier buildings, capable to assure indoor comfort minimizing the environmental imp ...

Politecnico di Milano2014

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