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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Energy-efficient building design"”.
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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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Development of designer-relevant Lattice-Boltzmann Wind Field Model for urban canyons and their neighborhoods
… is one of the most important components for 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 …
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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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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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A framework for energy-efficient housing satisfying socio-cultural aspects in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Buildings worldwide have a great effect on human well-being and the environment. Also, buildings’ energy consumption is the largest compared to other sectors. Added to that, most buildings depend on non-renewable energy sources, contributing to serious environmental issues such as global warming, …