The renovation of a building involves not just the fulfilment of functional requirements, but also considerations such as energy consumption, investment costs, environmental impact and wellbeing. As things stand, new design methods and tools are needed, and the aim of the research presented in...

In buildings of residential and tertiary sectors, daylight issues primarily respond to increasing needs regarding the occupants' well being and visual confort as well as to the supply of natural light for working, by decreasing energy consumption due to necessary artificial lightning for the...

The building envelope’s insulating efficiency is always a key element regarding the energy consumption control of the whole building. This article aims to propose a simple method based on classic and fractional factorial simulation plans to obtain regression models in the form of polynomial...