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Carlos Pérez-Carramiñana, Ángel Benigno González-Avilés, Nuria Castilla and Antonio Galiano-Garrigós
The dry Mediterranean climate (BShs) is the European region with the highest number of hours of sunshine per year. The high annual solar radiation makes sun shading devices necessary to comply with current energy efficiency standards. However, these stan...
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Elisabeth Fassbender, Josef Rott and Claudia Hemmerle
Cities face the consequences of climate change, specifically the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which detrimentally affects human health. In this regard, deploying PV modules in urban locales prompts inquiry into the impact of energy-active building com...
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Christian Hepf, Ben Gottkehaskamp, Clayton Miller and Thomas Auer
Building operational energy alone accounts for 28% of global carbon emissions. A sustainable building operation promises enormous savings, especially under the increasing concern of climate change and the rising trends of the digitalization and electrifi...
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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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Rocío Escandón, Carmen María Calama-González, Alicia Alonso, Rafael Suárez and Ángel Luis León-Rodríguez
Climate change will have a great impact on the hottest climates of southern Europe and the existing residential stock will be extremely vulnerable to these future climatic conditions. Therefore, there is an urgent need to update this building stock consi...
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Yuyan Wang, Xi Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Hao Zhang, Bo Xiong and Xuepeng Shi
Population growth and urban expansion have led to increased demand for buildings. Optimizing the building façade design, using integrated photovoltaic (PV) shading and vertical farming (VF) can reduce building energy consumption while ensuring a partial ...
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Ahmed Sherif, Khaled Tarabieh, Islam Mashaly and Mariam Amer
Large-scale residential projects require architects to balance energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and cost-effectiveness in designing building units distributed in different orientations. Applying a single design to all orientations may not result in co...
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Yang Yu, Yu Shao, Bolun Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Haibo Guo and Yang Chen
Due to global warming, the overheating risk in the severe cold region of China has attracted attention, but so far, no studies have examined summer overheating in this region. This paper aims to reveal the overheating risk in recent and future climates i...
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Veronika Elisabeth Richter, Marc Syndicus, Jérôme Frisch and Christoph van Treeck
Future weather scenarios significantly affect indoor thermal comfort, influencing people?s well-being and productivity at work. Thus, future weather scenarios should be considered in the design phase to improve a building?s climate change resilience for ...
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Carlos Pérez-Carramiñana, Samuel Sabatell-Canales, Ángel Benigno González-Avilés and Antonio Galiano-Garrigós
The energy-supply crisis, aggravated by the war in Ukraine, has prompted EU governments to approve urgent energy-saving measures. The new Spanish energy-saving standard aims to reduce energy consumption by changing the regulatory limits for indoor hygrot...
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