Publication

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

Publications associées (103)

Understanding the performance gap: a machine learning approach on residential buildings in Turin, Italy

Buildings account for the highest share of primary energy usage and greenhouse gas emission in the E.U. and U.S. [1], and most of this energy is used for space and water heating. Being able to gain a broader understanding of the gap between predicted and i ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Systematic Integration of Energy-Optimal Buildings With District Networks

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Paul Michael Stadler, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

The residential sector accounts for a large share of worldwide energy consumption, yet is difficult to characterise, since consumption profiles depend on several factors from geographical location to individual building occupant behaviour. Given this diffi ...

2019

Local climate impact on the energy demand: an analysis at the European scale

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Cynthia Houmani, Ismaël Krafess

A reduction by 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions as well as a similar decrease for the final energy consumption is needed to respect the energy strategies and climate objectives at the European scale. To address this issue, we analysed the energy demand ...

IOP2019

Local climate impact on the energy demand: an analysis at the European scale

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Cynthia Houmani, Ismaël Krafess

IOP Science2019

A new clustering and visualization method to evaluate urban heat energy planning scenarios

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Sara Torabi Moghadam

Spatial visualization is a very useful tool to help decision-makers in the urban planning process, i) to define future energy transition pathways, ii) to implement energy efficiency strategies and iii) to integrate renewable energy technologies in the cont ...

2019

Geographically Parameterized Residential Sector Energy and Service Profile

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

The large share of energy consumption in the residential sector has necessitated better understanding and evaluation of the energy needs in this sector, with the objective of identifying possible pathways for improvement. A series of approaches have been u ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2019

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

Franziska Meinherz, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a ...

2019

The institutional challenges of scaling-up housing retrofit: the Swiss cities of Basel and Sion

Eghbal Arian Mahzouni

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the nexus between two societal (sub) systems of housing and energy supply to shed new light on the key institutional barriers to socio-technical energy transition in the built environment. The key research question is to ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2019

An Optimisation Approach for Long-Term Industrial Investment Planning

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

The industrial sector has a large presence in world energy consumption and CO2 emissions, which has made it one of the focal points for energy and resource efficiency studies. However, large investments are required to retrofit existing industrial plants, ...

2019

Urban energy system planning: Overview and main challenges

Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

By looking at opportunities beyond the single building scale, urban planners can significantly contribute to shape energy-efficient and low-carbon cities. However, the complexity involved in such a broad task and the many trade-offs with other sectors impe ...

Academic Press2019

Graph Chatbot

Chattez avec Graph Search

Posez n’importe quelle question sur les cours, conférences, exercices, recherches, actualités, etc. de l’EPFL ou essayez les exemples de questions ci-dessous.

AVERTISSEMENT : Le chatbot Graph n'est pas programmé pour fournir des réponses explicites ou catégoriques à vos questions. Il transforme plutôt vos questions en demandes API qui sont distribuées aux différents services informatiques officiellement administrés par l'EPFL. Son but est uniquement de collecter et de recommander des références pertinentes à des contenus que vous pouvez explorer pour vous aider à répondre à vos questions.

Connectez-vous pour utiliser Chat avec Graph Search