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...

This article extends the standard theory of the producer cooperative firm to the case of production under condition of risk

This article presents a mean-variance model of the risk-averse firm under price uncertainty and examines the impact of uncertainty on the firm's production decision.It then develops a geometric method for comparative-statics analysis.