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Is there a difference in how people from different socio-environmental contexts perceive discomfort due to glare from daylight?

Jan Wienold, Clotilde Marie A Pierson, Magali Bodart

Exposure to daylight has much to offer and should be optimised to maximise its potential. In order to harvest its benefits, any visual discomfort from daylight should be anticipated and minimised. Hence, there is the need to predict discomfort from dayligh ...

2021

Embodied Carbon Benefits of Reusing Structural Components in the Built Environment: a Medium-rise Office Building Case Study

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

This paper provides parametric estimates of embodied carbon reductions when structural components are reused in a typical office building. First, a lower bound of structural material quantities is estimated for a typical steel frame structure in a low-rise ...

2018

Audemars Piguet - Electrochromic Glazing Study

Marilyne Andersen, Forrest Simon Webler, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán

The purpose of this report is to detail the findings of a long-term evaluation study on the impact of installing electrochromic glazing in two different buildings owned by Audemars Piguet. The two locations under investigation are the APRP ateliers in Le L ...

2018

Experimental Demonstration of Buildings Providing Frequency Regulation Services in the Swiss Market

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti

This paper investigates the potential of commercial buildings to offer ancillary services to the grid. We consider a tracking procurement inspired by secondary frequency control, where the resource needs to commit to a nominal consumption profile ahead of ...

2017

THERMAL STORAGE AIMING AT INCREASING THE SHARE OF USED HEAT REJECTED FROM A COOLING PROCESS

Antoine Girardin

Neighbourhood energy concepts for mixed industrial and commercial sites can be developed by applying energy integration techniques. This study presents an application of these techniques on a concrete site (RTA facility in Vienna, Austria), focussing on th ...

2012

Simulation of the Non-Visual Effects of Daylight

Marilyne Andersen, Nicolas Roy

The daylight design of building spaces for non-visual effects could have major implications for healthcare and residential buildings where occupants can remain in fixed positions for extended periods. This poster describes the formulation and application o ...

2011

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