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What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings
Buildings are designed to respond to functional and regulatory needs, providing comfortable conditions to occupants, offering satisfactory environmental settings, minimising health risks, and enhancing individual and collective quality of life. Although th ...
Oxford2024Correlating long-term performance and aging behaviour of building integrated PV modules
Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Ebrar Özkalay
Because building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) modules are fully integrated into a building envelope, the back of the module can be exposed to little or no ventilation, resulting in increased operating temperatures. As the temperature increases, the perfo ...
Elsevier Science Sa2024An explorative method to support design decisions based on carbon constraints and daylight sufficiency needs
The global construction industry contributes to 37% of carbon emissions associated to both building operations and construction. To help achieve the net-zero targets set by 2050, it is mandated to achieve a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. As we ...
EPFL2024Building ventilation and outdoor air pollution: Implications for health, comfort and energy
As humans spend most of their time indoors, indoor air quality (IAQ) significantly impacts their health. In parallel, building ventilation consumes significant energy, contributing to climate change. However, the relationships between the building ventilat ...
EPFL2023OccuVAE: Integrating unsupervised occupancy inference in data-driven energy modeling for human-centric operation
Andrew James Sonta, Yufei Zhang
Data-driven building energy modeling is an emerging solution to facilitate the implementation of energy-flexible buildings. However, its black-box nature hinders interpretation, including with respect to human-building interaction. This drawback may bring ...
Association for Computing Machinery2023Taking a step back from glass towers facades to make them compatible with the 2050 targets
Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Bernard Paule
Skyscrapers or glass towers are an extremely common model throughout the world. In the current context of climate change and resource depletion, we need to develop new postures towards these objects, especially for existing buildings that are becoming obso ...
2023Craving daylight while living indoors – the challenges of a good light hygiene
Natural light greatly impacts how a building is experienced by its occupants. It affects their well-being, notably from their health and biological clock perspectives, but also their perceived visual and thermal comfort, or their emotional response. If we ...
2023Daylightful indoors beyond what eyes can see
Natural light greatly impacts how a building is experienced by its occupants. It affects their well-being, notably from their health and biological clock perspectives, but also their perceived visual and thermal comfort, or their emotional response. If w ...
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