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Passive solutions to reduce the need for cooling in buildings

Feng, Wei - 2023

cooling operation strategies to provide cooling for spaces where and when needed. The building envelope provides the necessary …-performance building envelope are introduced. For fenestration systems, this paper covers energy-efficient technologies for glazing and …

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Passive solutions to reduce the need for cooling in buildings

Feng, Wei - 2023

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Effect of R-values changes in the baseline codes: Embodied energy and environmental life cycle impacts of building envelopes

Raouf, Ayman M.; Al-Ghamdi, Sami G. - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 554-560

The major environmental and economic burdens occurring from the high-energy consumption of buildings led to energy performance being a critical aspect for green building rating systems. Building energy codes play an important role for such performances through establishing the baseline...

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Effect of R-values changes in the baseline codes: embodied energy and environmental life cycle impacts of building envelopes

Raouf, Ayman M.; Al-Ghamdi, Sami G. - In: Energy reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 554-560

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First and second law analysis applied to building envelope: A theoretical approach on the potentiality of Bejan's theory

Biserni, Cesare; Garai, Massimo - In: Energy Reports 1 (2015), pp. 181-183

Especially in the last decade, efforts have been made in developing the sustainable building assessment tools, which are usually performed based on fundamentals of the First Law of Thermodynamics. However, this approach does not provide a faithful thermodynamic evaluation of the overall energy...

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Development of Climate Indices Using Local Weather Data for Shading Design

Lee, Dong-Seok; Jo, Jae-Hun; Koo, Sung-Han; Lee, Byung-Yun - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 2, pp. 1884-1899

The energy performance of buildings depends on how effectively the building envelope responds to climate. Architects …

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First and second law analysis applied to building envelope : a theoretical approach on the potentiality of Bejan's theory

Biserni, Cesare; Garai, Massimo - In: Energy reports 1 (2015), pp. 181-183

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Evaluation of Artificial Neural Network-Based Temperature Control for Optimum Operation of Building Envelopes

Moon, Jin Woo; Lee, Ji-Hyun; Kim, Sooyoung - In: Energies 7 (2014) 11, pp. 7245-7265

This study aims at developing an indoor temperature control method that could provide comfortable thermal conditions by integrating heating system control and the opening conditions of building envelopes. Artificial neural network (ANN)-based temperature control logic was developed for the...

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Building Behavior Simulation by Means of Artificial Neural Network in Summer Conditions

Buratti, Cinzia; Lascaro, Elisa; Palladino, Domenico; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5339-5353

performance of building envelope; in fact, a great number of Italian buildings were built before the 1970s and 80s. In particular … the cooling energy demand, ensuring indoor thermal comfort, a careful study on building envelope performance is necessary …. Different dynamic software could be used in order to evaluate and to improve the building envelope during the cooling period …

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Integrated Thermal-Energy Analysis of Innovative Translucent White Marble for Building Envelope Application

Rosso, Federica; Pisello, Anna Laura; Cotana, Franco; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5439-5462

Marble is a natural material, used in the construction field since antiquity. It has always been used to communicate monumentality and solidity. Nowadays new technologies permit marble to express new languages: particularly, translucent marble technology overturns the concept of solidity. The...

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