Publications related to Building performance

Spatial Modeling for Building Design Evaluation: from Visual Landscape Quality Assessment to Devaluation Risk Estimation

Zoning reform is a crucial tool for cities to adapt to contemporary challenges. However, its implementation remains challenging. Property owners, with a vested interest in the value of their neighborhoods, are sensitive to local developments and the potent ...

EPFL2024

What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings

Dusan Licina

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 ...

Oxford2024

An explorative method to support design decisions based on carbon constraints and daylight sufficiency needs

Nazanin Rezaei Oghazi

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 ...

EPFL2024

Correlating 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 Sa2024

Daylightful indoors beyond what eyes can see

Marilyne Andersen

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 ...

2023

Craving daylight indoors – more than meets the eye

Marilyne Andersen

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 ...

2023

Craving daylight while living indoors – the challenges of a good light hygiene

Marilyne Andersen

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 ...

2023

Daylightful dynamics and indoor well-being

Marilyne Andersen

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 ...

2023

Daylightful indoors – what we see and what we perceive

Marilyne Andersen

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. This l ...

2023

Craving daylight - psychology, light and healthy buildings

Marilyne Andersen

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 ...

2023

Building performance

Spatial Modeling for Building Design Evaluation: from Visual Landscape Quality Assessment to Devaluation Risk Estimation

What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings

An explorative method to support design decisions based on carbon constraints and daylight sufficiency needs

Correlating long-term performance and aging behaviour of building integrated PV modules

Daylightful indoors beyond what eyes can see

Craving daylight indoors – more than meets the eye

Craving daylight while living indoors – the challenges of a good light hygiene

Daylightful dynamics and indoor well-being

Daylightful indoors – what we see and what we perceive

Craving daylight - psychology, light and healthy buildings

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Correlating long-term performance and aging behaviour of building integrated PV modules

Craving daylight - psychology, light and healthy buildings

Craving daylight indoors – more than meets the eye

Daylightful dynamics and indoor well-being

Craving daylight while living indoors – the challenges of a good light hygiene

Daylightful indoors beyond what eyes can see

Daylightful indoors – what we see and what we perceive