LoginThe Proceedings of the 34th AIVC Conference " Energy conservation technologies for mitigation and adaptation in the built environment: the role of ventilation strategies and smart materials", held in Athens, Greece, 25-26 September 2013.
34th AIVC - 3rd TightVent - 2nd Cool Roofs - 1st venticool Conference - Athens, Greece - 25-26 September 2013
The 34th AIVC - 3rd TightVent - 2nd Cool Roofs - 1st venticool Conference - Energy conservation technologies for mitigation and adaptation in the built environment: the role of ventilation strategies and smart materials was held in Athens, Greece, 25-26 September 2013.
Contains 130 papers.
Volume content
Energy conservation technologies for mitigation and adaptation in the built environment: the role of ventilation strategies and smart materials (Book of Proceedings) | 2013 | English
Energy conservation technologies for mitigation and adaptation in the built environment: the role of ventilation strategies and smart materials (Slides) | 2013 | English
The Presentations of the 34th AIVC Conference " Energy conservation technologies for mitigation and adaptation in the built environment: the role of ventilation strategies and smart materials", held in Athens, Greece, 25-26 September 2013.
Comparative studies of the occupants' behaviour in a university building during winter and summer time | 2013 | English
The paper focuses on the assessment of indoor comfort and the energy consumption in a University building, during winter and summer time.
Measurements and modelling of an earth-to-air heat exchanger for retail building ventilation | 2013 | English
An earth-to-air pipe type heat exchanger (EAHE) is a simple and effective ventilation system component, used for preconditioning of the fresh air supplied to a building.
Parametric analysis of environmentally responsive strategies for building envelopes specific for hot hyper arid regions | 2013 | English
The deep hot hyperarid valley between Israel and Jordan presents unique design and construction challenges in terms of energy conservation and thermal comfort.
Urban recreation: energy efficient retrofit for carbon zero and socio-oriented urban environments | 2013 | English
Appropriate strategies to reduce energy consumption, increase Renewable Energy Sources (RES) penetration within local urban ecosystems are the higher priorities towards low carbon cities.
The European Union (EU) aims to a 20% reduction of the Europe's annual primary energy consumption by 2020. Furthermore, EU commits to reduce GHG emissions to 80-95% below 1990 levels by 2050.
Assessment of integrated PV shading systems for energy savings and interior comfort conditions in Mediterranean countries | 2013 | English
Fixed shading systems are saving energy by reducing the cooling loads of the space they shade, but can be a source of energy losses due to the increased need of daylight that they create.
Assessing thermal risk in urban areas an application for the urban agglomeration of Athens | 2013 | English
Assessing thermal risk in urban areas is essential, as this can have major implications to human health and may influence quality of life in urban areas as well as the urban microclimate.
Natural ventilation in hospital wards of semi-arid climates: a case for acceptable indoor air quality and patients’ health | 2013 | English
Owing to the growing concern about indoor air quality (IAQ) globally in hospitals, especially after the recent outbreak of diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Swine Flu (H1N1) and other airborne infections such as Tuberculosis,
Experimental determination of comfort benefits from cool-roof application to an un-conditioned building in India | 2013 | English
Increasing roof reflectance reduces absorption of solar radiation, roof surface temperatures, and heat flux in the building interior.
The urban climate of high-density areas is often affected by an increase of the air temperature known as Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon.
The indoor environment and occupants’ health of approximately 5,000 residential buildings were investigated by a questionnaire covering entire Japan.
A holistic approach of the development and application of innovative composite cool-thermal insulating materials | 2013 | English
The need to improve the energy performance of buildings, both new but also, and in particular, existing ones, is more imperative than ever.
Cool roof is a well-documented passive cooling strategy for buildings in several climate conditions.
A strategy to reduce global warming is to increase the reflectance and thermal emittance of the built environment (Akbari, Menon, e Rosenfeld 2008). The urban heat islands usually increase the temperature by more than 10ºC (Santamouris et al.
Solar reflectance is the key performance parameter of cool roof and cool pavement materials. For its assessment, the measured spectral reflectivity of the sample is weighted by a reference spectrum of solar irradiance.
Considering the Attica exampleː hotel location as a determinant factor of tourist carbon footprint | 2013 | English
The tourism industry is responding to the widespread concern over the future of the global climate. However, little quantitative work has been done on carbon dioxide emissions associated with tourism destinations.
Toward designing strategies for urban heat island mitigation based on multiscale flow considerations | 2013 | English
Much of the on-going discussion on urban heat island mitigation and proposed measures for cooling is based on case-studies taken at a specific scale and settings; the evaluation of the effectiveness of proposed cooling measures is therefore made u
Our recent study has shown that the acrylic silicon polymer is useful to formulate self-cleaning topcoat which may maintain the thermal insulation effect of cool roof effectively.