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Energy modeling of the Solar Decathlon pavilion: testing the thermal resilience under unplanned use

Karni Siraganyan

The objective of the project is to evaluate the resilience of the Solar Decathlon pavilion when subjected to unplanned use in order to check the compliance with requirements of the competition regarding thermal comfort and air quality. ...

2017

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In industrialized countries, people spend on average 85-90% of their time indoors (1). For this reason, major efforts are being made to understand and control the factors which affect people’s comfort, health and well-being inside buildings (2). The indoor ...

2017

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

A preliminary study on the sensitivity of people to visual and thermal parameters in office environments

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo

The evaluation of indoor comfort requires a thorough understanding of how human occupants perceive four indoor environmental factors: visual conditions, air quality, acoustic ambience and thermal conditions. Recent studies have found that overall comfort i ...

2016

GeoAware: A Hybrid Indoor and Outdoor Localization Agent for Smart Buildings

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

Localizing, identifying and authenticating the individual occupants is of paramount importance for the future intelligent buildings. Although the performance of outdoor positioning systems is sufficiently good, the indoor ones have still to converge to a u ...

Ieee2016

Adaptive visual and thermal comfort

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo

Increasing efforts are devoted to enhance and optimize the environmental comfort in buildings, as this aspect plays a major role in the affection of health, performance and general well-being of people. Indoor air quality, acoustic ambience, light and ther ...

2015

Benefits of a translucent building envelope made of DSC-integrated glass blocks

Luisa Pastore

The aim of this paper is to analyse the benefits deriving from the replacement of the glazed façades of an office building located in Palermo (Sicily) with a new translucent BIPV envelope made of multifunctional glass block panels integrated with Dye-sensi ...

Economic Forum2015

High demographic dynamics and greater poverty in developing countries carry the urgent need to provide low cost housing to the poorest in urban regions. In Colombia the development of social housing settlements is characterized by two deficits, a quantitat ...

EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB)2013

The building sector alone accounts for around half of the energy consumed in Switzerland and most other developed countries, with associated adverse environmental consequences, and there is a great potential for savings in this sector. For this reason, the ...

EPFL2010

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

Claude-Alain Roulet

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