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Do energy performance certificates allow reliable predictions of actual energy consumption and savings? Learning from the Swiss national database
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Passive design strategies and performance of Net Energy Plus Houses
The first step in order to comply with the European Union goals of Near to Zero Energy Buildings is to reduce the energy consumption in buildings. Most of the building consumption is related to the use of active systems to maintain the interior comfort. Pa ...
Elsevier Science Sa2014Energy Efficiency through Significance-Based Computing
Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis
An extension of approximate computing, significance-based computing exploits applications' inherent error resiliency and offers a new structural paradigm that strategically relaxes full computational precision to provide significant energy savings with min ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014Velux Lab: innovation between art and science
Veluxlab is the first Italian Nearly Zero Energy Building. It is placed in Bovisa Campus of Politecnico di Milano and it represents a study case of high energy efficiency building, integrating in the future scenario required by the European Directive 2010/ ...
2013Urban Form Optimization for the Energy Performance of Buildings Using Citysim
The energy efficiency of the urban texture relies notably on the buildings’ form, which characterizes its capability to take profit of the solar potential as well as its loss of energy through the envelope. Therefore, the general layout at the district sca ...
EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB)2013Solving Terminal Revocation in EAC by Augmenting Terminal Authentication
In this paper we propose a solution to enable an accurate terminal revocation in the Extended Access Control (EAC). Chaabouni and Vaudenay in [CV09] pointed out the need for an accurate revocation procedure, but failed to provide a complete solution descri ...
Gesellschaft für Informatik2013CITYSIM simulation: the case study of Alt-Wiedikon, a neighbourhood of Zürich City
Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Maria Papadopoulou, Diane Perez, Urs Wilke
As research in building energy demand simulation is reaching maturity, there is now a growing interest in the evaluation of the energy need of larger and/or pre-existing urban areas [1, 2, 3], to evaluate the energy performance associated with alternative ...
EPFL2011Robust binary regression
Stephan Morgenthaler, Sahar Hosseinian Ehrensberger
Robust procedures increase the reliability of the results of a data analysis. We studied such a robust procedure for binary regression models based on the criterion of least absolute deviation. The resulting estimating equation consists in a simple modific ...
Elsevier2011Towards a Unified Model of Occupants' Behaviour and Comfort for Building Energy Simulation
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 ...
EPFL2010An energy management method for the food industry
François Maréchal, Damien Muller
This article presents a method aimed at tracking energy saving opportunities in the food-processing industry through a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches. On the one hand, the top-down modelling method aims at correlating the measured energy ...
Elsevier2007Comfort and well-being in solar buildings - Results from a European Audit
ABSTRACT : The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires EU member states to establish a methodology for calculating the energy performance of buildings within a framework that includes the effect of active and passive solar systems as well ...
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