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Assessment of Monitoring Strategies for Inhalation Exposure and Occupancy in Office Environments

Given people's significant time spent indoors, ensuring good indoor air quality (IAQ) is essential because it significantly influences occupants' health and productivity. Office buildings consume about 50% of commercial building energy and 18% of total bui ...

EPFL2023

Object-oriented modelling of advanced computer cooling solutions

David Atienza Alonso, Federico Terraneo

Modern computing systems are so energy- intensive to make efficient cooling vital for their operation. This is giving rise to a variety of innovative cooling solutions based on a mix of traditional and new techniques. The design and engineering of these so ...

Elsevier2023

Energy, SBS symptoms, and productivity in Swiss open-space offices: Economic evaluation of standard, actual, and optimum scenarios

Dusan Licina, Dolaana Khovalyg, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Arnab Chatterjee, Cecile Anne Berquand

The fundamental aspiration of new-generation high-performing buildings is to reduce energy use while securing indoor environmental quality conducive to human health and productivity. However, existing frameworks for identifying Key Performance Indicators ( ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

High-resolution impact assessment of climate change on building energy performance considering extreme weather events and microclimate – Investigating variations in indoor thermal comfort and degree-days

Kavan Javanroodi, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Mohammad Hosseini

Climate change and urbanization are two major challenges when planning for sustainable energy transition in cities. The common approach for energy demand estimation is using only typical meso-scale weather data in building energy models (BEMs), which under ...

2022

Reinforcement Learning for the occupant-centric operation of building energy systems: Theoretical and experimental investigations

Amirreza Heidari

Occupant behavior, defined as the presence and energy-related actions of occupants, is today known as a key driver of building energy use. Closing the gap between what is provided by building energy systems and what is actually needed by occupants requires ...

EPFL2022

A Global Building Occupant Behavior Database

Andrew James Sonta, Zhe Wang, Sanjay Kumar, Xin Zhou, Yanchen Liu

This paper introduces a database of 34 field-measured building occupant behavior datasets collected from 15 countries and 39 institutions across 10 climatic zones covering various building types in both commercial and residential sectors. This is a compreh ...

2022

Resiliency lessons of traditional living in nomadic yurts

Dolaana Khovalyg

Technological advancements in the 20th century have significantly changed modern lifestyles and housing. Modern homes are well-insulated, and people in them typically expect minimally varying indoor thermal environments, bought at significant operational a ...

Routledge 2022

reference data for "A Critical Comparison of Annual Glare Simulation Methods"

Jan Wienold, Stephen William Wasilewski

Scene and reference results files for: "A Critical Comparison of Annual Glare Simulation Methods" Stephen Wasilewski, Jan Wienold, Marilyne Andersen 2022 Buildsim Nordic, Copenhagen Contents: 01-06*.tar.gz: reference simulation image archives, one ...

Zenodo2022

Investigating the impact of different natural ventilation modes on indoor air quality and overheating

The introduction of fresh air by means of natural ventilation is a technique that can improve indoor environmental quality in an energy-efficient manner. Nevertheless, recent studies revealed that the window opening during the summer months, even though it ...

2022

A simulation tool for building and lighting design considering ipRGC-influenced light responses

Marilyne Andersen, Clotilde Marie A Pierson, Myrta Gkaintatzi-Masouti

The ipRGCs in the human eye mediate several effects on people, such as alertness and circadian rhythms. The spectral, temporal and spatial characteristics of light influence the magnitude of these effects. To facilitate the anticipation of the ipRGC-influe ...

2022

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