LoginThe treatment of roof space with cool paint or vegetation is a widely employed urban heat mitigation strategy.
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.
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Effect of cool roofs and green roofs on temperature in the tropical urban environment | 2013 | English
Airtightness and ventilation of social housing in Ireland – A review of field measurements and occupant perspectives pre- and post- retrofit | 2013 | English
Airtightness and controlled ventilation are important factors affecting energy use and indoor air quality. Airtightness tests were carried out on nine naturally ventilated social houses in Ireland.
Experimental analysis of different operational configurations for single sided natural ventilation as part of a low energy retrofit | 2013 | English
Non-invasive, scalable, building retrofit solutions are amongst the most likely large scale adoption techniques to assist in climate change adaptation in the existing built environment, particularly in university type buildings where rehousing liv
Indoor air and thermal environment of environmental friendly house by passive design in Japan | 2013 | English
In recent years, with actualization of a global warming issue, the need for simultaneous pursuit of progress of comfort in living space at residential house and energy saving is now becoming greater and greater.
Ventilative cooling of residential buildings: Strategies, measurement results and lessons learned from three active houses in Austria, Germany and Denmark | 2013 | English
The thermal comfort of the residential buildings Home for Life in Denmark, LichtAktiv Haus in Germnay and Sunlighthouse in Austria is investigated with a particular focus on the strategies used to achieve good thermal comfort, and the role of sola
A lightweight aluminium nocturnal radiator, painted with an appropriate paint, was established on the roof of the Department of Environmental & Natural Resources Management in Agrinio, in Western Greece.
Double-skin system of room-side air gap applied to detached house (Part 1): Simulation Analysis for reduction of cooling load in the forced ventilated wall of detached house | 2013 | English
Detached residential wooden houses are a common type of housing in Japan. Decay of wooden components within the walls caused by condensation or defective flushing, is sometimes an issue.
In this article, it will be shown how heat recovery ventilation with closed-loop ground heat exchange performs in practice, in a residential building in Nijeveen, The Netherlands.
Energy saving effect of the ERV (Energy recovery ventilator) with outdoor air cooling | 2013 | English
Maintaining an IAQ with fresh in school building is very important because the good IAQ can keep the student in health and improve the academic performance.
Combining thermal inertia, insulation and ventilation strategies for improving indoor thermal summer comfort | 2013 | English
A good level of thermal insulation and an adequate thermal capacity of the building envelope are essential to achieve good energy performance.
Large, multi-storey buildings pose a particular challenge for natural ventilation design due to the interaction between heat and air flows through different building zones.
A characterization and modeling process has been conducted in order to better account for ventilative cooling in the evaluation of energy performance of buildings.
This work is based on the RESHYVENT project in which the effectiveness of hybrid (i.e.
Common experiences, standards, and laboratory studies show that increased air velocity helps to offset warm sensation due to high environmental temperatures.
Impact of climate change on indoor thermal comfort of naturally ventilated public residential buildings in Singapore | 2013 | English
Public residential buildings in Singapore are designed as naturally ventilated. As climate changes, the indoor thermal comfort becomes critical as it depends greatly on the outdoor weather condition.
Impact of climate change on a naturally night ventilated residential building, Greece | 2013 | English
The climate of Greece is typical Mediterranean with wet, cool winters and hot, dry summers. The temperature range is on average between 5°C to 35°C without many extreme temperatures and weather events.
Potential of night ventilative cooling strategies in office buildings in Spain. Comfort Analysis | 2013 | English
Night ventilation has been applied successfully to many passively-cooled or low-energy office buildings.
Passive cooling dissipation techniques for buildings and other structures: The state of the art | 2013 | English
Passive cooling in the built environment is now reaching is phase of maturity. Passive cooling is achieved by the use of techniques for solar and heat control, heat amortization and heat dissipation.
Developing a method to optimize the investment cost of a building and the energy performance, represented by the energy consumption, one gets easily confronted with conflicting objects. As the investment cost usually rises, while the energy consu
The first Dutch Passive house and Plus energy schools: some Dutch IAQ experiences in schools | 2013 | English
Ventilation is especially important to get a good Indoor Air Quality in schools. This is important as the young children have very vulnerable still developing longs which are very sensitive to all kind of pollutions.