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Publications associées (16)

Smart cities and sustainable development goals (SDGs): A systematic literature review of co-benefits and trade-offs

Despite the wealth of research on smart cities, there is a lack of studies examining interlinkages between smart cities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, there is limited research on how implementing smart city solutions can lead to ...

London2023

The Rebound Effects from Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvements

Michel Zimmermann

In energy policy, energy efficiency constitutes a central element in reducing domestic and, specifically, industrial en-ergy use. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of energy efficiency improvements in achieving its targets is known to be limited by rebound ...

EPFL2022

More from Less? Environmental Rebound Effects of City Size

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Global sustainability relies on our capacity of understanding and guiding urban systems and their metabolism adequately. It has been proposed that bigger and denser cities are more resource-efficient than smaller ones because they tend to demand less infra ...

2021

Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools

Marina Dorokhova

Due to end-users’ habit being one of the prominent factors influencing building performance, changing user behavior to encourage energy efficient habits has tremendous potential to facilitate energy savings. Four ongoing European projects, eTea ...

2020

Endogenous Energy Efficiency Improvement of Large-Scale Refurbishment in the Swiss Residential Building Stock

Marc Vielle, Sergey Arzoyan, Michel Zimmermann

In Switzerland, according to Swiss Federal Office of Energy around 50% of primary energy consumption is attributable to buildings: 30% for heating, air-conditioning and hot water, 14% for electricity and around 6% for construction and maintenance. However, ...

2018

Endogenous Energy Efficiency Improvement of Large-Scale Refurbishment in the Swiss Residential Building Stock

Marc Vielle, Sergey Arzoyan, Michel Zimmermann

2018

A field-based modelling framework of the ecohydrology of schistosomiasis

Francisco Javier Perez Saez

Successful control of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease, is challenged by the intricacy of the wormâs lifecycle, which depends on aquatic snail intermediate hosts, and involves environmental, ecologic, and socio-economic factors. Current s ...

EPFL2018

The guideline series VDI 4800 resource efficiency: an approach for increasing resource efficiency with the aim of conservation of natural resources in the industrial sector

In 2011, the Association of German Engineers (VDI) started working on a set of guidelines towards increased resource efficiency. These guidelines represent a framework that defines resource efficiency and outlines considerations for the producing industry. ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

The Use of Variable Stiffness Joints in Adaptive Structures

Qian Wang, Gennaro Senatore

Adaptive structures are defined here as structures capable of counteracting actively the effect of external loads via controlled shape changes and redirection of the internal load path. These structures are integrated with sensors (e.g. strain, vision), co ...

2017

Impacts of global warming on energy use for heating and cooling with full rebound effects in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth

Global warming is expected to lower the energy demand for heating, which would contribute to a decline in CO2 emissions. This effect may be offset by energy needs for additional cooling and by the impacts of households that reinvest the money they save on ...

Elsevier2017

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