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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"energy performance"”.
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Monitoring energy performance in local authority buildings.
Energy management has been an important function of organisations since the oil crisis of the mid 1970’s led to hugely increased costs of energy. Although the financial costs of energy are still important, the growing recognition of the environmental costs of fossil-fuel energy is becoming more …
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The energy performance of the NOVTEC advanced house
… keeping with its vision to develop sustainable, energy efficient housing, in 1992, Canada launched the Advanced Houses Program, a program to showcase Canadian Innovation and affirm our commitment to fostering a greener environment. Presented herein is an analysis of the energy performance of one …
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Machine learning paradigms for building energy performance simulations
… to overcome a technical limitation of building energy performance simulations, the computation time, by using surrogate modeling, a class of supervised machine learning techniques where the output is a performance metric. Though early machine learning methods were introduced decades ago, the …
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Towards energy-performance trade-off analysis of parallel applications
"Energy consumption by computer systems has emerged as an important concern, both at the level of individual devices (limited battery capacity in mobile systems) and at the societal level (the production of Green House Gases). In parallel architectures, applications may be executed on a variable …
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The thermal energy performance of domestic dwellings in the UK
… is concerned with the understanding of the real performance of domestic retrofit measures in terms of whole house energy efficiency. The researcher has undertaken studies in a whole house test facility in a climate controlled chamber, which has allowed for work to be undertaken that challenges …
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Model-based optimisation approaches for system energy performance improvement and evaluation
… model-based optimisation approaches for system energy performance improvement and evaluation, and such approaches can solve many energy performance related problems, for example, they are able to optimise conveyor belt system energy performance, avoid ramp rate violation problem in the periodic …
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Energy performance assessment of buildings: a novel approach for model validation
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Narrowing the Energy Performance Gap in Non-Domestic Buildings with Aspirational Sustainability Targets
… sustainable building designs, the actual energy performance of certified buildings is generally little better and sometimes worse than the building stock average. The actual energy consumption of non-domestic buildings is typically 1.5 to 5 times greater than designer estimates, resulting …
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IL PARTENARIATO PUBBLICO-PRIVATO E L¿ENERGY PERFORMANCE CONTRACT NEL PROCESSO DI TRANSIZIONE ENERGETICA
… begins by exploring the precise placement of energy efficiency within the broader objectives of environmental sustainability as identified by the supranational framework. It specifically focuses on the complex scenario resulting from the intersection between environmental and energy …
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Optimal pathway towards building EPC rating improvements align with building energy performance certificate programme
… for commercial buildings to improve their Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings by efficiently adopting Energy Efficiency Measures (EEMs). With buildings contributing approximately 40\% of global energy consumption and 36\% of carbon dioxide emissions, enhancing energy performance is …
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Energy Performance Assessment of Building Stocks - Enhancing Quality Data Flows for Urban Energy Analysis
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Data-driven models to evaluate root causes of energy performance gaps in office buildings
Designers develop high-performance office building designs with efficient envelopes, and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems utilizing energy modeling tools with forecasted occupancy, plug load, and operational profiles as inputs. Their expected performance is often not met due …
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An exploration of building energy performance and financial value with demonstration on UK offices
… relationship between expectations of building energy performance and financial value. The context of the United Kingdom was selected as a leading case, being a significantly large economy to enact legislation that commits the government to delivering ambitious emission reductions to mitigate …
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Psychophysical evaluations of modulated color rendering for energy performance of LED-based architectural lighting
… context of unparalleled controllability, a novel energy-saving lighting control concept inspired this research: strategic control of Red, Yellow, Green & Blue LEDs forming white light can further increase energy efficiency. The resulting (more efficient) white light, however, would have decreased …
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Commercial remodeling : using computer graphic imagery to evaluate building energy performance during conceptual redesign
… commercial remodeling and building thermal performance. A computer graphic semiotic is developed to display building thermal performance based on this relationship. Commercial remodeling includes everything from minor tenant improvements to whole building redesign. One type of remodeling, …
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An Investigation into the Management of Energy Performance for Building Services Systems: Design to Operation
… (CIBSE, 2017). There is acceptance that the energy performance of buildings must improve. Presently building energy data is only available in terms of total annual fossil or electrical energy totals. These are blunt instruments for energy managers. There is a need for a method of managing the …
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Evaluation of the potential impact of electrochromic windows on the energy performance of commercial buildings
… emerging technology to improve building performance as they provide greater control of solar gains; they have a potentially significant impact on the indoor visual environment and energy requirements of commercial buildings. The research work presented in this thesis, which is …
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Modelling on-domestic buildings energy performance using machine learning methods, a case study of the UK
… has setregulations to decrease the amount of energy take-up by buildings. It is apparent from the seminal literature that deep energy retrofit is the primary solution to achieve that goal. Due to the size and complexity of non-domestic buildings, finding optimum plans is cumbersome. To that …
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Optimisation of Closed Cavity Façade to Enhance Energy Performance and Indoor Environmental Quality in Office Buildings
… 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 of the building envelope in regulating heat and mass transfer, it has a significant impact on building performance (building whole-life carbon and …
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