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Evaluating the usefulness and the reliability of retrofitted buildings for future climate can be a challenging task, while different scenarios and uncertainties exist both for retrofitting buildings and future climate. This paper presents a method to asses ...
Increasing efforts are devoted to enhance and optimize the environmental comfort in buildings, as this aspect plays a major role in the affection of health, performance and general well-being of people. Indoor air quality, acoustic ambience, light and ther ...
Evaluating the usefulness and the reliability of retrofitted buildings for future climate can be a challenging task, while different scenarios and uncertainties exist both for retrofitting buildings and future climate. This paper presents a method to asses ...
Nowadays in Rome public housing suburbs face several critical issues, both physical and social: buildings obsolescence, state of neglect of open spaces, inhabitant’s sense of segregation and lack of social inclusion. These critical issues cause a huge redu ...
Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca TESIS, Università degli Studi di Firenze2016
Energy planning recently received more attention in Switzerland through the new strategy phasing out nuclear energy by 2034. Often however the energy planning is only done from the electrical side. This work takes a different angel and helps communities an ...
The European Union stresses the accent on the need of energy consumption and expenditure data relatedto housing stock (EP, 2010). Most of housing and living conditions databases of Member States investigatethe housing status of a concerned region through a ...
Technology scaling enables the design of low cost biosignal processing chips suited for emerging wireless body-area sensing applications. Energy consumption severely limits such applications and memories are becoming the energy bottleneck to achieve ultra- ...
Activity recognition and prediction in buildings can have multiple positive effects in buildings: improve elderly monitoring, detect intrusions, maximize energy savings and optimize occupant comfort. In this paper we apply human activity recognition by usi ...
A methodology is proposed to target the retrofit of utility system and heat exchanger network (HEN) of large-scale chemical plants. The methodology is based on the Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation for the optimal site utility integration ...
Contemporary cities are more than ever committed to tackle environmental challenges such as the attenuation of the urban heat island phenomenon and the renovation of a large building stock characterized by low indoor comfort levels and increasing energy co ...