LoginTo realize a desirable building environment by saving energy and low global emission, the author has been investigating passive systems in buildings where the environment is controlled biomimetically and autonomously by simulating the physiologica
Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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In recent years, there has been an increasing number of publications on the thermal and daylight performance of double skin facades in moderate climates.
Concepts of sustainability in buildings and cities are many and there are various programmes for healthy cities and researches on indoor air quality. Wellbeing indoors depend on external factors also.
Close to Zermatt (Switzerland) the new Monte Rosa mountain cabin is going to be built in2008 at 2810 metres above sea level.
The focus on the needs and drives for adaptation of the building automatically leads tochanging needs and demands of the occupants of the building.
Integral design shows high promises to reduce failure costs and to improve design quality.
A workshop was held in the fall of 2006 for the purpose of developing courses related to “Energy Efficient Integrated Sustainable Design for the Built Environment” for university, college, and vocational schools.
The application of a ventilation system in a new building is a multidimensional complex problem that involves both quantifiable and non-quantifiable data e.g.
In the world of design and engineering, gaps of knowledge between these disciplines are recognized. The learning capacity of the building industry – as well as in other industries – is becoming a main issue, also within Architect-organizations.
Various means of improving the energy efficiency of commercial buildings while preservingand/or improving their internal environmental quality have been extensively studied.
The installation of thermostatic valves and cost allocators represents the main modernizationmeasure of the heating installation. In this study we determined theoretically andexperimentally their effects upon the energy savings.
Sitsang belongs to cold Region in china and heating energy consumption in winter is very large.
Novi Sad is capital administrative center of the Province Vojvodina, one of two towns with active oil refinery crossroad of transit traffic artery and until recently great industrial town!
In mid-2002 the Friedberg architects’ bureau Bremmer, Lorenz, Frielinghaus, which had been successful in the architecture competition, was commissioned to plan the new construction of the main branch of the Hagen Sparkasse (savings bank).
The use of bioclimatic solutions in architecture has been for a long time in Europe aconsolidated procedure, especially developed in northern countries.
A growing interest has been addressed to multi-energy systems in buildings that involve theintegration of different energy sources to cover the thermal and electrical loads of thebuilding.
The simulation of a building as a whole offers an image of its behaviour, reflecting thecomplex relation established between the outdoor environment factors, the buildingcharacteristics, the use by its occupants, and the parameters which intervene
The paper discusses the newly revised ASHRAE GreenGuide, particularly as it relates to thetopic of indoor environmental quality.
A global methodology is developed to optimize concepts for extremely low energy dwellings, taking into account energy savings, environmental impact and financial costs over the life cycle of the buildings.
This paper deals with the use of passive solutions to reach thermal comfort conditions in aneducational building under specific tropical climatic conditions.