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Design in the desert. A bioclimatic project with urban energy modelling

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo

The increase of the world's population leads to an urgent need of radical measures to diminish the energy footprint of humanity. This study considers the realisation of an optimal Masterplan in energy terms for the new EPFL Research Centre in Ras A1 Khaima ...

International Building Performance Simulation Association2013

Energy recovery in SUDS towards smart water grids: A case study

Anton Schleiss, Irene Almeida Samora

The development of a methodology for urban flood adaptation and energy recovery solutions is resting on the concept of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) as a measure to reduce risks of urban flooding while fully utilizing the available resources. F ...

Elsevier2013

Liquid, fluids, l’architecture du Léman

Isabella Maria Pasqualini

liquids, fluids - les architectures fluviales du Léman is the first urban jam proposal, which implies the extension of experimental design notions into a more scientific frame and vice versa. The central question points at how contiguous environments have ...

2013

Swisswoodhouse, an innovative concept for sustainable modular housing

The Swisswoodhouse concept was born out of the crossover of several lines of thought concerning issues of urban densification, flexibility of housing, adaptability of buildings and sustainable construction. The approach aims to provide an alternative to th ...

2012

Sustainability solution space of the Swiss milk value added chain

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Alexandre Schmid

Current indicator-based sustainability assessment approaches usually have three shortcomings: (i) ecological as- pects are mostly overrepresented in relation to importance and complexity of economic and social aspects; (ii) they center on filling important ...

Elsevier2012

A GIS-based Methodology for the Evaluation of Integrated Energy Systems in Urban Area

Luc Girardin

Following the pioneering work "Tokyo Half Project" promoted by the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS), a geographical information system has been developed to model the energy requirements of urban areas. The purpose of this platform is to model with ...

EPFL2012

IDEAS - Integrated Design, Architecture and Sustainability

Marilyne Andersen, Sophie Lufkin, Maria Gracia Riera Perez, Émilie Nault

The axis "Integrated Design Architecture and Sustainability" (IDEAS) is a joint initiative of both the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) and Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) of the School of ...

2012

A new approach for co-operative bus priority at traffic signals

Bus priority at traffic signals is a growing area of co-operative transport system applications. Interest in bus priority continues to grow as the Cities pay more attention to the needs of buses to provide fast, frequent and reliable services thus contribu ...

2012

The communication process

Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst

In order to stimulate an increased use of solar in energy conscious building design, the Task 41 participants have developed a Communication Guideline as a tool to support architects in their communication process with especially clients, authorities and c ...

Hagen, Rolf and Bruun Jorgensen, Olav for International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme2012

Sustainable Lighting: An Introduction to the Environmental Impacts of Lighting

Marilyne Andersen

The intent of this Design Guide is to introduce the topic of sustainability, present its elements, and explain how it affects the design of lighting in process and product. This document is structured into two major sections. Section 1.0 introduces sustain ...

IES - Illuminating Engineering Society2012