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Ordinary residential buildings dating from late nineteenth century and early twentieth century are an essential part of the European urban built environment. Today, it is important to address the comfort of residents through renovations improving the build ...

Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development2016

Energy demand and urban microclimate of old and new residential districts in a hot arid climate

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Sameh Monna

Different climates may need different design strategies for optimal thermal performance of buildings: the relationship between different texture of the cities (their form and morphology), the energy demand of buildings and the outdoor microclimate are esse ...

2016

Energy Demand Analysis for Building Envelope Optimization for Hot Climate: A Case Study at AN Najah National University

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Sameh Monna

The study aims to analyse the heating and cooling demand of the An Najah university campus, and to optimize the building envelope for selected buildings, in order to achieve energy efficiency, and make use of renewable solar energy. Building and urban simu ...

2016

Effective and robust energy retrofitting measures for future climatic conditions — Reduced heating demand of Swedish households

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Vahid Moussavi Nik

This article quantifies the energy saving potential and robustness of nine energy retrofitting measures,as well as four combinations of these, for residential building stocks of three major cities in Swedenand for five scenarios of future climatic conditio ...

Elsevier2016

Sensitivity Analyis of Visual and Thermal Parameters for Energy Savings: systems variation

Mathieu Plourde

The aim of this project is to investigate the benefit of thermally active building or home automation as well as the combination of various settings for visual and thermal parameters. While guarantying the users’ thermal comfort and his expectations in ter ...

2016

Photovoltaics integration in the Solar Decathlon pavilion : Assessing the implication of transparent BIPV with DSC technology on the indoor comfort and energy performance

Hélène Yvette Claudine Monari, Guillaume Charles Johan Rouff soit Rueff

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are photovoltaic devices that are meant to replace conventional building components normally used in the building envelope. Different BIPV options are nowadays available on the market. Despite the lower nominal effi ...

2016

Overheating reduction of a cold formed steel-framed building using a hybrid evolutionary algorithm to optimize different PCM solutions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Cold formed steel-framed constructions have been strongly disseminated with particular emphasis on the residential sector due to their fast execution, quality control and final cost. However, this construction typology presents a weakness associated with a ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

Aramid/glass fiber-reinforced thermal break - thermal and structural performance

Thomas Keller, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Kyriaki Goulouti

Energetically weak points in thermally insulated building envelopes are formed by thermal breaks that are implemented to structurally connect external balconies to internal slabs. Current thermal breaks comprise stainless steel bars that penetrate the insu ...

Elsevier2016

Thermal and structural performance of a new fiber-reinforced polymer thermal break for energy-efficient constructions

Kyriaki Goulouti

The thermal bridges constitute critical regions in building envelopes and they are created due to the interruption of the insulation layer. One of the many structural thermal bridges in building envelopes is created in balcony junctions because of the requ ...

EPFL2016

FRP sandwich structures in bridge and building construction

Thomas Keller

Selected applications of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sandwich structural elements in building and bridge construction are discussed. It is shown how in building construction this technology enables the integration of functions such as load-bearing capac ...

2016

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