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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Energy efficient building"”.
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A knowledge-based system for energy-efficient building design
Building designers are constantly facing the problem on how to choose energy conservation options and how to implement them. This is especially true at the preliminary design stage when many important design decisions that significant affectly the energy performance are made. The Model National …
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Decision process for energy efficient building retrofits : the owner's perspective
Energy consumption and conservation is an important consideration for commercial building owners. The commercial building sector consumes a great deal of energy. Energy reduction for commercial buildings can result in operations cost savings and reduction in environmentally harmful emissions. The …
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Experimental and ANSYS investigation on the aerogel envelopes for energy-efficient building
Energy consumption, specifically in the building sector is always increasing. One potential way to reduce energy consumption, is to reduce the heat loss in buildings or homes. Silica aerogels have grown in popularity as an insulating material due to their extremely low thermal conductivity. Very …
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Approximation and Control of the Boussinesq Equations with Application to Control of Energy Efficient Building Systems
… by recent interest in designing and controlling energy efficient building systems. In particular, we show that it is possible to locally exponentially stabilize the nonlinear Boussinesq Equations by applying Neumann/Robin type boundary control on a bounded and connected domain. The feedback …
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Supporting the launch of advanced technological solutions on the energy-efficient building market through new financial-economic metrics
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Picking up the PACE : a new tool for financing energy efficiency and distributed renewable energy
… in Louisiana to provide municipal financing for energy efficient building retrofits and distributed renewable energy. First, the thesis identifies how energy efficiency loan funds should be structured so as to access public debt markets. Second, it reviews current best practices in the field of …
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Truss core sandwich panels with compacted aerogel insulation
… of aerogel insulation, particularly in energy efficient building applications. Mechanical and thermal properties of the sandwich panel prototype were measured and compared with theoretical models available in literature. The models give a good description of the properties of …
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Light-form : reception/distribution of direct sun-energy
The era of the energy-efficient building is upon us. You've heard all the terms before: solar, daylight, super-insulation and so on. These terms describe ways in which buildings respond to the presence of light. Light brings us heat, illumination, and an association with the world around us. But …
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A framework for sustainable buildings : an application to China
… topics of Sustainability in the context of buildings. The framework includes the dimensions of time and space and the dimensions of ecology, society, and economy. Buildings are shown to have a substantial share on the total environmental and human health impact of an economy. In an energy …
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Development of designer-relevant Lattice-Boltzmann Wind Field Model for urban canyons and their neighborhoods
… designers to achieve a thermally-comfortable and energy-efficient building design. Designers need a fast and relatively accurate wind field model to get integrated into the design workflow, but current platforms to work on are either costly and time-consuming conventional Computational Fluid …
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Adapting vernacular strategies for the design of an energy efficient residential building in a hot and arid climate: City of Yazd, Iran
<p>Today, buildings consume a significant amount of primary energy, and consequently they are a major source for greenhouse gas emissions resulting in global warming. During the last decades, the concept of sustainable architecture with the major aim of diminishing negative environmental impact of …
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Reconstructing low-energy housing using ‘systems of practice’.
The residential sector accounts for a third of energy use in the UK (DECC, 2014b) and generates fifteen percent of greenhouse gas emissions (DECC, 2014c). Lowenergy housing is therefore critical to meeting climate change mitigation targets (DECC, 2011). New homes are required to be carbon-neutral …
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Office leases & landlord investment in energy efficiency
… rental market and how much landlords invest in energy efficient building systems for their existing buildings? I am drawn to this question because it seems to me that there is technology available that would allow the operation of for-rent office buildings to be more efficient in their …
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Expert Control Strategies for Solar Cooling systems
Between 1990 and 2009, household final energy consumption in EU-27 increased by 8%, caused by rising standards of living, an increase in comfort levels and broader ownership of domestic appliances. In 2009, the total electrical consumption due to residential sector amounted at 36%. Space heating …
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A case-based reasoning approach to the designing of building envelopes
Building-envelope design is an information-intensive process that requires experiential knowledge. Confronted with such a process, a human expert adds to well-known domain knowledge his own experience, or the experience of others, to support his reasoning process and guide him in typical …
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Power electronics implementation of dynamic thermal storage as effective inertia in large energy systems
Modern large energy systems such as electricity grids and electrified transportation encounter increasing processed power in multi-physics domains, such as electrical, mechanical, thermal, and chemical. Although many systems are becoming predominantly electrical dependent, an integrated …
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Reduced-Order Modeling of Complex Engineering and Geophysical Flows: Analysis and Computations
… Its original promise of computationally efficient, yet accurate approximation of coherent structures in high Reynolds number turbulent flows, however, still remains to be fulfilled. To balance the low computational cost required by reduced-order modeling and the complexity of the targeted …
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Optimisation of Closed Cavity Façade to Enhance Energy Performance and Indoor Environmental Quality in Office Buildings
… the transparent and translucent part of the building envelope, have traditionally been identified as the weak point of the building and, simultaneously, as a key element to pursue higher building performance in terms of energy use and occupant comfort. Due to the role of the transparent part …
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Study of the thermal and optical performance of building integrated Si photovoltaics
Buildings consume around 37% of the final energy in Greece, emit greenhouse gases and favour the development of the urban heat island phenomenon. Consequently, this significantly motivates the development and implementation of new strategies for energy efficient building design. In the frame of …
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An assessment of the impact of selected construction materials on the life cycle energy performance and thermal comfort in buildings
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering and Built Environment, Durban University of Technology, Durban, 2021.
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