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Perceived health and comfort in relation to energy use and building characteristics

Within the European research project Health Optimisation Protocol for Energy-efficient Building (HOPE), 96 apartment buildings and 64 office buildings (of which approximately 75% have been designed to be energy-efficient) were investigated. The building ch ...

2006

Designing healthy, comfortable and energy-efficient buildings: lessons from enquiries within the european Hope project

Claude-Alain Roulet

Within the European research project HOPE, a multi-disciplinary study was performed in nine European countries, by auditing 160 apartments and office buildings, of which half of them can be characterised as having low energy use. The investigating tools we ...

2005

Performance criteria for healthy and energy efficient buildings: definition, assessment and building classification

Carlo Peruzzo, Claude-Alain Roulet

One of the aims of the HOPE project is to develop a method to assess healthiness and energy efficiency of buildings and strategies to optimise their performance towards health and energy efficiency. In this project, a building is defined "Healthy and Energ ...

2005

Correlation between SBS, perceived comfort, energy use and other building characteristics in european office and residential buildings

Claude-Alain Roulet

Within the European research project HOPE, 67 office buildings and 97 residential ones were investigated using checklists addressing the building characteristics and questionnaires to the occupants asking their perceived comfort (thermal visual, acoustical ...

2005

Creating healthy and energy-efficient buildings: lessons learned from the Hope project

Claude-Alain Roulet

Within the European research project HOPE, 97 apartment buildings and 67 office buildings - of which approximately 75% have been designed to be energy-efficient, and half of them are indeed - were investigated using checklists addressing the building chara ...

2005

Assessment of health risks in buildings using health hazard algorithms

Carlo Peruzzo, Claude-Alain Roulet, Lee Ann Nicol

The EU project HOPE (Health Optimisation Protocol for Energy-efficient buildings) seeks to characterise those buildings that achieve good performance in both energy efficiency and occupant health and comfort. This project involved two stages of fieldwork: ...

2005

Comparing daylighting performance assessment of buildings in scale models and test modules

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Anothai Thanachareonkit

Physical models are commonly used to assess daylighting performance of buildings using sky simulators for purpose of research as well as practice. Recent studies have pointed out the general tendency of scale model assessments to overestimate the performan ...

2005

Comparing daylighting performances assessment of building within scale models and test modules

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Anothai Thanachareonkit

2003

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