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Pinar Mert Cuce, Erdem Cuce and Saffa Riffat
The construction sector, including in developed countries, plays a notable part in the overall energy consumption worldwide, being responsible for 40% of it. In addition to this, heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems constitute the lar...
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Ji Bian, Changchun Liu, Chunyang Zuo, Jianli Hao, Wenting Ma, Baoyin Duan, Congda Chen and Jixuan Liu
Since decoration is an essential part of buildings, the carbon emissions generated by decoration work should not be ignored. In recent years, prefabricated decoration has attracted much attention as efforts are made to pursue green, low-carbon, and waste...
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Chaohong Wang, Xudong Zhang, Wang Chen, Feihu Jiang and Xiaogang Zhao
Modernization and industrialization have significantly increased energy consumption, causing environmental problems. Given that China is the largest energy user, the rise in building energy consumption necessitates clean energy alternatives. The purpose ...
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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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Zeqin Tian, Dengfeng Chen and Liang Zhao
Accurate building energy consumption prediction is a crucial condition for the sustainable development of building energy management systems. However, the highly nonlinear nature of data and complex influencing factors in the energy consumption of large ...
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Dario Bottino-Leone, Dagmar Elisabet Exner, Jennifer Adami, Alexandra Troi and Jessica Balest
The abandonment and deterioration of historic rural buildings in Europe raise significant issues, including hydrogeological risks, the loss of productive land, and cultural heritage decline. Despite being underestimated, these structures hold significant...
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Albina Scioti and Fabio Fatiguso
The construction industry involves some of the activities with the highest consumption of raw materials and significant waste production. According to the European Commission, it requires large quantities of resources, representing approximately 50% of a...
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Romina Rissetto and Marcel Schweiker
Rising global temperatures have increased the need for research into human adaptability and comfort in buildings. To reduce comfort-related energy demands, low-energy-consumption alternatives for space cooling, such as personal environmental control syst...
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Ioannis Nikolaou and Leonidas Anthopoulos
Contextual data are receiving increasing attention in Smart Cities as they enable the development and delivery of smart services for their citizens. The homogenization of contextual data flows has become an important topic for standardization bodies as t...
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Maryam Safavi and Maryam Khoshbakht
Utilizing integrated solar systems and renewable energy sources has the potential to not only decrease the CO2 emissions of buildings but also provide access to more affordable energy alternatives compared to fossil fuels, especially considering the rece...
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