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Urban planning and solar potential: Assessing users' interaction with a novel decision-support workflow for early-stage design

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Émilie Nault

The need for sustainable architecture and urban design and planning has long been acknowledged, along with the necessity for adequate, early-phase guiding instruments. This paper aims at exploring the effectiveness and usability of a novel decision-support ...

2016

Two-Phase Mini-Thermosyphon Electronics Cooling, Part 1: Experimental Investigation

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Chin Lee Ong

Efficient, small, state-of-the-art passive cooling two-phase systems, i.e. advanced micro-thermosyphon cooling systems, are viable solutions for high performance datacenter servers and power electronics cooling applications. The objective of this study is ...

Ieee2016

Building Environment and Interior Comfort in 20th-Century Architecture : Understanding Issues and Developing Conservation Strategies / Les Dispositifs du confort dans l’architecture du XXe siècle : connaissance et stratégies de sauvegarde

The notion of physiological comfort – meaning responses to temperature and humidity but also to lighting and acoustics – has been a driving force in architectural production throughout the twentieth century. Whether concealed, embedded, exposed, or ‘featur ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2016

3D Model for Solar Energy Potential on Buildings from Urban LiDAR Data

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Andreas Bill

One of the most promising sustainable energy that can be considered in urban environment is solar energy. A 3D model for solar energy potential on building envelope based on urban LiDAR data was developed in this study. The developed algorithm can be used ...

The Eurographics Association 20162016

Towards a pre-design method for low carbon architectural strategies

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Arianna Brambilla, Stefano Cozza

To face climate change, Switzerland proposes the 2050 energy strategy by fixing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets for the built environment. Designers will then have to increase operating performances while inimizing embodied impacts. This represents a ...

2016

Building Interfaces That Work: A Multi-stakeholder Approach to Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation

Julia Schmale

Air pollution and climate change are two major environmental problems. These issues are not only inextricably linked with regard to their effects and mitigation options but also through their causes that include human behavior, infrastructures, technology, ...

Springer, Cham2016

Small-scale turbocompressors for wide-range operation with large tip-clearances for a two-stage heat pump concept

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Adeel Javed

Two mechanically driven small-scale turbocompressors running on gas lubricated bear-ings have been theoretically designed for a 6.5 kW two-stage heat pump functioning under variable operating conditions. The novelty in the heat pump system lies in the appl ...

Elsevier2016

Technical and architectural energy strategies for the smart living lab, a sustainable building with reliable environmental objectives

Stefano Cozza

Currently, energy efficiency in buildings is a primary objective of energy policy at regional, national and international levels. On a local scale, this trend has been detected also in Switzerland, where almost 40% of energy consumption has been assumed to ...

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

Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China

Ning Liu

Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...

EPFL2015

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