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Economic Advantages of Office Buildings Providing Ancillary Services with Intraday Participation

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ali Ahmadi Khatir

Controlling the consumption profile of office buildings can be used to provide balancing services to the power grid at a financial benefit without violating its thermal comfort constraints. The economic advantage of such a service is a reduction in the tot ...

2018

Nano-Tera.ch: Information Technology for Health, Environment, and Energy

Giovanni De Micheli, Martin Rajman, Patrick Mayor

Bettering human health care and creating a sustainable environment through monitoring and smart energy usage are primary goals of advanced societies. To this purpose, the Swiss Government, through the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovati ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

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This paper will present an annual simulation-based workflow for assessing human perceptual and non-visual responses to daylight across a series of view positions in an architectural case study. Through the integration of mathematical models used to predict ...

2017

Daylight in the built environment

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Jan Wienold, Silvia Coccolo, Magali Bodart

Relatively recent cultural and technological changes, particularly in Westernized societies, have led to habitat and lifestyle shifts that have gradually estranged us from daylight. Although human beings are resilient and appear able to cope with extreme v ...

Science/AAAS2017

Electrical hubs: An effective way to integrate non-dispatchable renewable energy sources with minimum impact to the grid

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik

A paradigm change in energy system design tools, energy market, and energy policy is required to attain the target levels in renewable energy integration and in minimizing pollutant emissions in power generation. Integrating non-dispatchable renewable ener ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Transatlantic Patterns of Risk Regulation: Implications for International Trade and Cooperation

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This report presents a study commissioned by the European Parliament to compare regulatory standards in the EU and the US in four key sectors (food safety, automobiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals), chosen for their relevance both to consumer protection ...

International Risk Governance Council2017

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The development of nanotechnologies, and the advent of micro/nano-sensors with novel functionalities integrated on flexible substrates, has opened the way to the development of wearable technology. Interest in wearable technology comes from the considerabl ...

2016

Spatial Justice as Pragmatic. An Experimental Approach to the Reorganisation of the Swiss Hospital Map. Since the reorganisation of hospital systems are on the agenda in most developed countries, this research project aims to know and render geographically ...

EPFL2016

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eileen Hazboun, Silvia Hostettler

Technological innovation is vital for finding solutions to key challenges the world is facing. Climate change, pollution, disease, rising inequalities, and chronic poverty all need to be addressed. We need renewable energy sources, efficient transport netw ...

Springer2015

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer

This study concerns the economics of innovation in the area of medical innovation -new diagnostics, medicines and vaccines-, and in particular how innovation contributes to meeting public health needs. Significant advances have taken place in medical scien ...

EPFL2015