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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Zero Energy Building"”.
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Energy efficiency's role in a zero energy building: simulating energy efficient upgrades in a residential test home to reduce energy consumption
… have realized that meeting these ever-growing energy demands could potentially devastate the environment. In the United States, generating electrical power constitutes the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions and the majority of this power is used to electrify buildings both in the …
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Impact of advanced energy recovery system on light commercial building
Commercial buildings such as educational and commercial offices require large amounts of fresh air to maintain the indoor air quality as required by the building codes. This raises the energy costs of the buildings, especially when the number of occupants are large. In order to reduce the energy …
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Repowering the void : negotiating connectivity
Rejecting the conception of building as island as reflected in American obsession with detached currently reinforced by Zero Energy Building, the thesis explores patterns of connectivity. largely results from insular development and their related transportation modes. Further,' scales, when used at …
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The Interconnection between Net-Zero Building Code and Rental Housing Affordability in Massachusetts
… continued focus of policymakers on achieving net-zero targets, there has been an increased focus on decarbonization of the housing markets through net-zero energy building codes such as the new “Stretch Code” introduced in Massachusetts. In a quest to achieve declared targets on the …
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Development and modeling of a solar powered ground source heat pump system
Buildings consumed 40% of the energy and represented 40% of the carbon emissions in the United States. This is more than any other sector of the U.S. economy, including transportation and industry. Most building energy consumption is for space heating, cooling and water heating in buildings. …
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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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Planar Multilayer Thin Film Coatings for Passive Winter Thermal Management
Buildings are responsible for 40% of global energy consumption. 76% of that energy is spent on comfort control including heating, cooling and ventilation. This large energy consumption results in significant greenhouse gas emission, which adversely affects the global climate. The high cost of …
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Challenges of achieving zero energy education buildings
Buildings have significant impacts on the environment, economy, and society. Buildings account for 40% of the total energy consumption in the U.S. To improve the energy efficiency of buildings, the use of zero energy buildings (ZEB) has increased in recent years. The main objective of this research …
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EnergyPlus Simulation of Single-Coil Twin-Fan Air Conditioning System
… this thesis was to describe the development of a building energy simulation to show the potential energy performance of the newly-developed Single-Coil Twin-Fan (SCTF) air conditioning system. The objectives of this project were to develop a customized module of the energy efficient SCTF system, …
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Pathways to Sustainable Housing
… for decades; Covid-19 has disturbed the economy; energy prices are rising; unemployment remains high; consumer debt and budget deficit are climbing; wealth inequality is at an all-time high. Still, 89% of the energy consumed in the United States comes from non-renewable sources. Amid this …
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Analysis of net zero energy buildings and communities that strategically integrate transportation energy
… have heightened the demand for alternative energy sources, especially in transportation and residential sectors. The rise of electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs), and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) have reduced dependence on oil and emissions. Governments and researchers are …
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A Macroergonomics Path to Human-centered, Adaptive Buildings
Human-building relationships impact everyone in industrialized society. We spend approximately 90% of our lives in the built environment. Buildings have a large impact on the environment; consuming 20% of worldwide energy (40% of U.S. energy) annually. Buildings are complex systems, yet …
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Luminescent solar concentrator structures for solar energy harvesting and radiation control
… electricity. All-inorganic visibly-transparent energy-harvesting clear laminated glass windows are the most practical solution to boosting building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) energy outputs significantly while reducing cooling- and heatingrelated energy consumption in buildings. A typical …
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A new framework to switch from Zero Energy to Zero Power Buildings
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Jednogenerační rodinný dům v Kostelci
Cílem této bakalářské práce je návrh samostatně stojícího rodinného domu pro čtyřčlennou rodinu, který splňuje požadavky na budovu s téměř nulovou spotřebou energie. Práce se skládá ze dvou částí. První část zahrnuje architektonicko-stavební řešení, požárně bezpečnostní řešení a stavebně fyzikální …
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Polyfunkční bytový dům
Predmetom bakalárskej práce je vypracovanie projektovej dokumentácie polyfunkčného bytového domu pre realizáciu objektu. Hlavným cieľom práce bolo navrhnúť dispozičné, konštrukčné a materiálové riešenie. Objekt sa nachádza na rovinatom pozemku v južnej časti mesta Lučenec. Jedná sa o samo stojaci …
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Mateřská škola Elišky Přemyslovny
Předmětem řešení mé diplomové práce je návrh a novostavby mateřské školy a vypracování dokumentace pro provedení stavby. Stavba je situována v jihozápadní části města Brna, v městské části Brno-Starý Lískovec. Stavba je osazena do mírně svažitého terénu. Budova má dvě nadzemní podlaží a suterén, …
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Mateřská škola Čmelák
Předmětem řešení této bakalářské práce je návrh novostavby mateřské školy a vypracování doku-mentace pro provedení stavby. Stavba je situována v západní části obce Vlkov u Osové Bítýšky. Stavba je osazena do mírně svažité-ho terénu. Objekt je navržen jako jednopodlažní stavba. Objekt je …
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Sportovní badmintonové centrum, Čestlice
Předmětem diplomové práce je návrh novostavby Sportovního badmintonového centra, vypracování prováděcí dokumentace a vytvoření IFC modelů v rámci týmové spolupráce – BIM. Objekt Sportovního badmintonového centra, Čestlice se nachází na východní straně obce Čestlice, která se nachází za hranicí …
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