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Introducing the Advanced Active Façade: Towards Near-Zero Buildings Incorporating Building Integrated Photovoltaics Expressive Issues

Building Integrated Photovoltaics’ (BIPV) performance is improving rapidly. However, their potential is diminished because of several barriers. Due to its limited expressive quality, architects tend to avoid integrating BIPV in building design, more partic ...

2017

Toward a polycentric low-carbon transition: the roles of community-based energy initiatives in enhancing the resilience of energy systems

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

An understanding of the resilience of energy systems is critical in order to tackle forthcoming challenges. This chapter proposes that the polycentric governance perspective, developed by Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, may be highly relevant in formulating pol ...

Springer2017

Architectural Integration of Low-Carbon Technology and Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV). Into the design process of Advanced Active Façades (AAF)

Sophie Lufkin, Angela Clua Longas

2017

One-Year stable perovskite solar cells by 2D/3D interface engineering

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Filippo de Angelis, Iwan Zimmermann, Giulia Grancini, Cristina Roldán Carmona

Despite the impressive photovoltaic performances with power conversion efficiency beyond 22%, perovskite solar cells are poorly stable under operation, failing by far the market requirements. Various technological approaches have been proposed to overcome ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Energy performance analysis in interdisciplinary education – Lessons learned from a simulation-based teaching approach

Marilyne Andersen, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Émilie Nault

The education of building practitioners is challenged by the increasing need for interdisciplinary profiles in the professional practice. To progress toward the goal of a sustainable built environment, a common language must be shared among fields such as ...

2017

Monolithic technology for silicon nanowires in high-topography architectures

Yusuf Leblebici, Mohammad Nasr Esfahani, Mustafa Yilmaz

Integration of silicon nanowires (Si NWs) in three-dimensional (3D) devices including integrated circuits (ICs) and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) leads to enhanced functionality and performance in diverse applications. The immediate challenge to th ...

Elsevier2017

ENTREPRENEURIAL SUPPORT FOR E-WASTE RECYCLERS

Sustainable recycling of e-waste bares opportunities as well as obstacles - mainly for small and medium size enterprises. Especially the current challenging market situation for second- hand raw materials makes it difficult for small e-waste recyclers to o ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Towards an Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Biorefineries

Edgard Gnansounou, Daniel Tuazon

The sustainability of biofuel operations encompasses several issues which are key to promoting uptake in a global environment. However, much of the analysis of biofuel production tends to be dominated by life cycle assessment (LCA) for assessing environmen ...

Elsevier2017

Radical crowd based open innovation and design for sustainability

Collaborative “crowd” based open innovation and design as well as funding activities, websites, platforms and projects are becoming increasingly popular. These combine the creativity of people with new enabling technologies like online platforms, rapid pro ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Morfología urbana Mediterránea

The city is a very complex system in which many parameters converge. The large number of these parameters greatly hinders not only an accurate analysis of all of them, but also the assessment of the phenomena that occur in the city and its impact on the en ...

2016

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