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Lorna Dragonetti, Dimitra Papadaki, Margarita-Niki Assimakopoulos, Annarita Ferrante and Marco Iannantuono
The environmental and economic evaluation of energy renovation in buildings plays a crucial role in achieving sustainability goals and the decarbonization of the built environment. This paper presents a case study of a student house in Athens, Greece, to...
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Christopher Tsang, James Parker and David Glew
A substantial number of dwellings in the UK have poor building fabric, leading to higher carbon emissions, fuel expenses, and the risk of cold homes. To tackle these challenges, domestic energy efficiency policies are being implemented. One effective app...
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Wahhaj Ahmed, Baqer Al-Ramadan, Muhammad Asif and Zulfikar Adamu
Energy and environmental challenges are a major concern across the world and the urban residential building sector, being one of the main stakeholders in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, needs to be more energy efficient and reduce carbon...
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Niki Balkamou and George Papagiannopoulos
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings. In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed a...
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Ulrich Carsten Johannes Rischmüller, Alexandros Lessis, Patrick Egerer and Mirko Hornung
A wide range of aircraft propulsion technologies is being investigated in current research to reduce the environmental impact of commercial aviation. As the implementation of purely hydrogen-powered aircraft may encounter various challenges on the airpor...
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Alice Rene? Di Rocco, Dario Bottino-Leone, Alexandra Troi and Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa
The challenge of transforming historic buildings and city centers into energy-self-sufficient environments requires innovative solutions. The research project ?BiPV meets History? addressed this challenge by providing comprehensive guidelines for assessi...
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Paulo Santos, Génesis Camila Cervantes, Alicia Zaragoza-Benzal, Aimee Byrne, Ferhat Karaca, Daniel Ferrández, Adriana Salles and Luís Bragança
Building construction accounts for a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, raw material extraction, and waste production. Applying circular economy (CE) principles in the building construction industry would considerably reduce these...
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Najeeba Kutty, Dua Barakat and Maatouk Khoukhi
Cities are paying more attention to building energy use and carbon footprint for attaining sustainability. Within this building sector, there is a growing attention toward development and adoption of energy efficient retrofit strategies. Plagued by the l...
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Vidhya Maney Surendran, Chandramathy Irulappan, Vijayalaxmi Jeyasingh and Velraj Ramalingam
This study aims to propose building envelope retrofit packages for existing naturally ventilated school buildings in the hot?humid climatic region of Chennai, India. Indoor thermal parameters were collected through field studies from nine sample classroo...
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Francesco Esposito, Mario Argenziano, Diana Faiella and Elena Mele
This paper reports a study on the Intermediate Isolation System (IIS) applied to existing buildings. This kind of application is particularly suitable when a vertical addition is planned for buildings in seismic zones; in such a case, an isolation system...
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