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Wenfei Guan, Wenzhong Guo, Fan Chen, Xiaobei Han, Haiguang Wang, Weituo Sun, Qian Zhao, Dongdong Jia, Xiaoming Wei and Qingzhen Zhu
To address the issues of excessive heat loss from the roofs of multi-span greenhouses and high energy consumption for heating during winter production, we propose an approach for the external insulation of the roof of multi-span glass greenhouses and hav...
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Youcef Boussaa, Ambrose Dodoo, Truong Nguyen and Katarina Rupar-Gadd
A major challenge in building energy renovation is to cost effectively achieve notable energy savings. This paper investigates cost-effective passive energy-efficiency measures for thermal envelope retrofit of a typical Swedish multi-apartment building f...
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Juan Xu, Wenting Yang, Ziliang Lu, Yan Wu, Chaoping Hou and Dan Liu
Slate dwellings are known as the ?living fossil of primitive dwellings? in China. Energy-saving strategies are crucial to slate dwellings for sustainability as well as maintaining thermal comfort. In this research, a subjective satisfaction analysis on t...
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Safeer Abbas, Omer Saleem, Mujasim Ali Rizvi, Syed Minhaj Saleem Kazmi, Muhammad Junaid Munir and Shahid Ali
The use of energy efficient structures in the local construction industry assists in promoting green building concepts, leading to economical and eco-friendly solutions for self-sustained structures. The main aim of this study was to examine and compare ...
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Farshid Shadram and Jani Mukkavaara
Building developers are continuously seeking solutions to increase saleable/rentable floor area and thus the profitability of investments, especially in large/dense cities where the real estate/rental values are high and shortage of available land result...
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Fouad Ismail Ismail, Syed Ahmad Farhan, Nasir Shafiq, Nadzhratul Husna, Muhammad Taufiq Sharif, Syed Uthman Affan and Arul Kamal Veerasenan
Silica aerogel possesses an ultra-low thermal conductivity by virtue of its nano-structure. Owing to the fragility of monolithic aerogel, the development and production of aerogel-based insulation materials involve the incorporation of granular aerogel w...
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Iván Hernández-Pérez
Building roofs are sources of unwanted heat for buildings situated in zones with a warm climate. Thus, reflective coatings have emerged as an alternative to reject a fraction of the solar energy received by roofs. In this research, the thermal behavior o...
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Sudhakar Molleti, Logan Carrigan and David van Reenen
In the thermal design of low sloped roofing assemblies, two parameters are overlooked, one is the surface temperature of the roof assemblies which provides the required temperature gradient for heat flow, and the other is the mean operating temperature o...
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Giacomo Bagarella, Filippo Busato, Francesco Castellotti, Andrea D?Ascanio, Renato Lazzarin, Fabio Minchio, Daniele Nardotto, Marco Noro and Lorenzo Zamboni
At the Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) of the University of Padova (Italy), the research team led by Prof. Renato Lazzarin, formed by the authors, worked during the first fifteen years of the millennium on different topics focused on susta...
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Jesús Las-Heras-Casas, Luis M. López-Ochoa, Luis M. López-González and Pablo Olasolo-Alonso
One of the greatest challenges facing the European Union is the conversion of the existing residential building stock into nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEBs) by 2050 through energy renovation, given that the residential sector is one of the largest con...
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