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Michael Tesfaye Bekele and Cemil Atakara
Residential buildings have a list of functions, and one of the top priories is the thermal comfort of its occupants. Thermal comfort can be one of the measurements of successful building performance, and it can be addressed in various ways to provide a g...
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Walter Chen, Kieu Anh Nguyen and Yu-Chieh Huang
Soil erosion is a complex process involving material detachment, transportation (mainly by water, occasionally by wind), and eventual deposition when energy wanes. Human activities like tillage and construction can exacerbate soil erosion. Various forms ...
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Yaolin Lin, Xingping Yuan, Wei Yang, Xiaoli Hao and Chunqing Li
Healthy buildings are a deep-level development of green buildings, which can effectively help relieve stress and improve occupants? physical and mental health. In addition, they are is likely to play an important role in preventing the spread of respirat...
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Xiaoxiao Rao, Feng Qi, Xiaoxiao Zhang and Zhuoxun Mao
Traditional wooden dwellings, which are widely distributed with enormous stocks in China, are of great historical and have obvious cultural value. The walls of such buildings are generally subjected to poor thermal insulation performance, which not only ...
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Mihai Carbunar, Olimpia Minta?, Nicu Cornel Sabau, Ioana Borza, Alina Stanciu, Ana Pere?, Adelina Venig, Mircea Curila, Mihaela Lavinia Carbunar, Teodora Vidican and Cristian One?
Tomatoes, one of the most appreciated vegetables consumed, are crops well adapted for cultivation in arid and semi-arid conditions, with the success of large yields guaranteed by covering water consumption through irrigation. Solar Pumps?SP are driven by...
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Muhyiddine Jradi
When considering that over 80% of buildings in Denmark were built before the 1980's, a holistic energy retrofitting of the existing building stock is a major milestone to attain the energy and environmental targets of the country. In this work, a case st...
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Energy demands in the building sector account for more than 30% of the total energy use and more than 55% of the global electricity demand. Efforts to develop sustainable buildings are progressing but are still not keeping pace with the growing building ...
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Khaled Bataineh and Ayham Alrabee
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of energy retrofit programs for the existing residential buildings under the typical Jordanian climate. The Jordanian climate has mild heating season and a hot (and usually dry) cooling season. Sever...
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Luciano De Tommasi, Hassan Ridouane, Georgios Giannakis, Kyriakos Katsigarakis, Georgios N Lilis and Dimitrios Rovas
This paper presents work undertaken as part of the European H2020 project OptEEmAL (Optimized Energy Efficient Design Platform for Refurbishment at District Level), toward development of a decision-support platform for building and district refurbishment...
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M.E. Storm, R. Gouws, L.J. Grobler
In most countries the agricultural sector, especially crop irrigation, is a considerable energy consumer. Farm irrigation studies in South Africa showed that energy and water is wasted on a large scale and there is a large potential for improving efficie...
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