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Germán Ramos Ruiz and Alba Olloqui del Olmo
Buildings are one of the key factors in working towards a low-carbon economy to help mitigate climate change. For this reason, many of the current regulations aim to reduce their consumption and increase their efficiency, as is the case in the European U...
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Abdulelah D. Alhamayani, Qiancheng Sun and Kevin P. Hallinan
The net-zero global carbon target for 2050 needs both expansion of renewable energy and substantive energy consumption reduction. Many of the solutions needed are expensive. Controlling HVAC systems in buildings based upon thermal comfort, not just tempe...
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Guoyang Teng, Xiaojun Zhou, Chenlong Yang and Xiang Zeng
Discrete defects in thick composites are difficult to detect for the small size and the structure noise that appears in multilayer composites. In this paper, a nonlinear method, called recurrence analysis, has been used for characterizing discrete defect...
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Manuela Almeida, Marco Ferreira and Ricardo Barbosa
The construction sector is facing increasingly strict energy efficiency regulations. Existing buildings have specific technical, functional and economic constraints, which, in fulfilling regulations, could lead to costly and complex renovation procedures...
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Sudeep Nair, Hafiz Hashim, Louise Hannon and Eoghan Clifford
Within the European Union, buildings account for around 40% of the energy use and 36% of CO2 emissions, thus representing a significant challenge in the context of recent EU directives that require all new buildings to be nearly zero-energy by 2020. Redu...
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Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, Tammy Lee, Vanessa Rose and Stephen M. Bollens
Eutrophication of lakes and reservoirs has contributed to an increase in the magnitude and frequency of harmful cyanobacterial blooms; however, the interactive effects of nutrient availability (eutrophication) and other abiotic and biotic drivers have ra...
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Hassan Saeed Khan , Muhammad Asif, Mohammed Alhaji Mohammed
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The building sector is an important stakeholder in the energy and environmental scenario of any country. It continues to grow across the world due to factors such as population growth, and economic and infrastructure development. Within the European Unio...
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John Napier
There is a disconnection between commercial architecture and environmental thinking, where green features can be included as part of a strategy for gaining approvals and marketing projects, but those features are not reviewed after completion and occupat...
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