Publications by Sergi Aguacil Moreno

Regeneration of Urban Areas: From Neighbourhoods in Transition to Innovative Components

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Pascal Pierre Michon, Clément Cattin, Emmanuel Rey, Aleksis Dind

Research at the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at EPFL aims to explore the interactions between architectural design and transitions towards sustainability in the built environment. This concerns as much the polycentric rest ...

Lars Müller Publishers2025

The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni, Emmanuel Rey

This research aims to compare the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of new neighbourhood projects near the Rhône River in France and Switzerland. The study considers the influence of the river on energy demand and resilience to climate change of 12 project-ba ...

Wrocław University of Science and Technology Publishing House2024

Virtual Tours as Effective Complement to Building Information Models in Computer-Aided Facility Management Using Internet of Things

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Laurent Deschamps, Sebastian Duque Mahecha

This study investigates the integration of Building Information Models (BIMs) and Virtual Tour (VT) environments in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, focusing on Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM), Computerized Maintenan ...

MDPI AG2024

Designing with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV): A pathway to decarbonize residential buildings

Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Emmanuel Rey

The ambitious targets set for greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency by 2050 demand a critical increase of building renovation rates. This challenge is shared by most Western nations, including Europe and Switzerland, where the current annual renov ...

Elsevier BV2024

Taking a step back from glass towers facades to make them compatible with the 2050 targets

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Bernard Paule

Skyscrapers or glass towers are an extremely common model throughout the world. In the current context of climate change and resource depletion, we need to develop new postures towards these objects, especially for existing buildings that are becoming obso ...

2023

Autodigit-RAD: Towards an automation of the radon’s concentration dataflow in a new and innovative building

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Sebastian Duque Mahecha

Radon is a noble, natural, and radioactive gas coming mainly from the ground which might accumulate indoors and lead each year to 200-300 deaths from lung cancer in Switzerland. A brand new and innovative living lab will be built as of 2023 in Fribourg (Sw ...

2023

Influence of future climate scenarios on the sizing of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) installations. Case study of a new research-center building in Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

This paper analyzes the findings obtained when applying a multi-criteria performance-based method for sizing a BIPV installation considering different weather files, representing historical data (TMY; typical meteorological year) and prospective data (thre ...

2023

Le défi environnemental d’un quartier périurbain à l’horizon 2050

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Emmanuel Rey

Par leur faible densité et leur plus forte dépendance à l’automobile, les habitats périurbains présentent actuellement de sérieuses lacunes en matière de durabilité et de multiples études ont mis en évidence que leur impact environnemental est généralement ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022

Integration of Indoor Air Quality Prediction into Healthy Building Design

Dusan Licina, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Shen Yang, Sebastian Duque Mahecha

Healthy building design is an emerging field of architecture and building engineering. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an inevitable factor that should be considered in healthy building design due to its demonstrated links with human health and well-being. Thi ...

MDPI2022

Sustainable Construction in Humanitarian. Action Criteria for humanitarian building sustainability

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Guillaume Habert, André Ullal

Humanitarian organisations have an interest in improving the sustainability of buildings that support the assistance provided to people affected by conflict and disaster. Yet, usual means of assessing building sustainability - e.g., labels such as LEED and ...

2022