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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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Ibrahim Al-Helal, Pietro Picuno, Abdullah A. Alsadon, Abdullah Ibrahim, Mohamed Shady and Ahmed M. Abdel-Ghany
In arid climates, the optical properties of plastic-covered greenhouses deteriorate very quickly. To examine the effect of greenhouse shape and orientation on the degradation rate of cover optical properties, four greenhouse prototypes were constructed i...
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Fouad Ismail Ismail, Syed Ahmad Farhan, Nasir Shafiq, Nadzhratul Husna, Muhammad Taufiq Sharif, Syed Uthman Affan and Arul Kamal Veerasenan
Silica aerogel possesses an ultra-low thermal conductivity by virtue of its nano-structure. Owing to the fragility of monolithic aerogel, the development and production of aerogel-based insulation materials involve the incorporation of granular aerogel w...
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Nora Schjøth Bunkholt, Toivo Säwén, Martina Stockhaus, Tore Kvande, Lars Gullbrekken, Paula Wahlgren and Jardar Lohne
Pitched wooden roofs are ventilated through an air cavity beneath the roofing in order to remove heat and moisture from the roof construction. The ventilation is driven by wind pressure and thermal buoyancy. This paper studies ventilation driven by therm...
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Manuel J. Carretero-Ayuso, Alberto Moreno-Cansado and Justo García-Sanz-Calcedo
Climate conditions affect buildings? performance and durability. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of climate conditions on roof deficiencies. 763 cases of such deficiencies were analyzed in this regard. Once the construction deficien...
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Manuel J. Carretero-Ayuso, Justo García-Sanz-Calcedo
Pág. 123 - 136
Based on Life Cycle Assessment techniques, this research compares the environmental impact of 11 variants for the construction of roofs in residential buildings. Among others, the energy used, the carbon footprint and the waste associated to placement a...
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Lars Gullbrekken, Tore Kvande, Bjørn Petter Jelle and Berit Time
The building constructions investigated in this work are pitched wooden roofs with exterior vertical drainpipes and wooden load-bearing system. The aim of this research is to further investigate the building defects of pitched wooden roofs and obtain an ...
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Esteban Felipe Zalamea, Rodrigo Garcia
Pág. 36 - 44
This paper presents an analysis of the roofs of recently built single-family homes in Concepción, Chile and their potential for integrated solar energy collection. It seeks to promote the installation of domestic renewable energy systems in the face of g...
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