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Francesco Asdrubali, Daniela Venanzi, Luca Evangelisti, Claudia Guattari, Gianluca Grazieschi, Paolo Matteucci and Marta Roncone
The majority of Italian schools (70%) were built in the absence of any legislation related to energy efficiency, and therefore have very low energy performance due to aging or poor quality of construction. An energy retrofit of this building stock is nee...
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Paolo Valdiserri, Silvia Cesari, Maddalena Coccagna, Pasquale Romio and Sante Mazzacane
Hospitals require the highest energy demands in non-residential buildings. They provide healthcare 24/7/365 and, at the same time, they ensure indoor air quality, thermal comfort and sterility. However, several studies reveal that high indoor temperature...
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Chien-Min Wu, Yen-Chun Kao, Kai-Fu Chang
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Cognitive radios have the ability to dynamically sense and access the wireless spectrum, and this ability is a key factor in successfully building Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled mobile ad hoc networks. This paper proposes a contention-free token-based ...
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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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Adnan Rasheed, Cheul Soon Kwak, Hyeon Tae Kim and Hyun Woo Lee
This study proposes a multi-span greenhouse Building Energy Simulation (BES) model using a Transient System Simulation (TRNSYS)-18 program. A detailed BES model was developed and validated to simulate the thermal environment in the greenhouse under diffe...
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Ambrose Dodoo and Joshua Ayarkwa
This study presents an analysis of the impacts of climate change on thermal comfort and energy performance of residential buildings in Ghana, in sub-Saharan Africa, and explores mitigation as well as adaptation strategies to improve buildings? performanc...
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Paulina Wegertseder Martínez,Maureen Trebilcock Kelly
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As part of a thermal retrofitting process of existing housing, energy and thermal performance is normally predicted by dynamic simulation that supposes standardized patterns of building use, without considering the key role of the users in building's ene...
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Tam Nguyen Van and Frank De Troyer
Natural ventilation and the use of fans are recognized as sustainable design strategies to reduce energy use while reaching thermal comfort. A big challenge for designers is to predict ventilation rates of buildings in dense urban areas. One significant ...
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Silvia Mariani, Federica Rosso and Marco Ferrero
The intrinsic nature of local rocks shaped the features of built heritage in historical centers. The resulting building culture is part of the cultural heritage itself, and must be considered when building in such areas, while it is essential to solve th...
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Elena Bee, Alessandro Prada and Paolo Baggio
Matching demand profile and solar irradiance availability is necessary to meet space heating and domestic hot water needs by means of an air-source heat pump and photovoltaic system in a single-family house. Demand-side management, with smart control of ...
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