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Jiarun Tang and Dongxia Chen
Granite residual soil (GRS) exhibits favorable engineering properties in its natural state. However, a hot and rainy climate, combined with vibrations generated during mechanical construction, can cause a notable decrease in its strength. In this study, ...
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Sairoong Dinkoksung, Rapeepan Pitakaso, Chawis Boonmee, Thanatkit Srichok, Surajet Khonjun, Ganokgarn Jirasirilerd, Ponglert Songkaphet and Natthapong Nanthasamroeng
This research introduces a mobile application specifically designed to enhance tourist safety in warm and humid destinations. The proposed solution integrates advanced functionalities, including a comprehensive warning system, health recommendations, and...
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Juliana May Sangoi, Taylana Piccinini Scolaro and Enedir Ghisi
The performance of water heating systems must be evaluated considering energy consumption and efficiency in storing and distributing hot water, together with building and climate characteristics. This work aims to analyse the performance of different wat...
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Charles Voivret, Dimitri Bigot and Garry Rivière
Building solar protection regulations is essential to save energy in hot climates. The protection performance is assessed using a shading factor computation that models the sky irradiance and the geometry of shadow obstructing the surface of interest. Wh...
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Ahmed Sherif, Khaled Tarabieh, Islam Mashaly and Mariam Amer
Large-scale residential projects require architects to balance energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and cost-effectiveness in designing building units distributed in different orientations. Applying a single design to all orientations may not result in co...
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Mohamed H. Elnabawi, Aysha Alhumaidi, Bana Osman and Reem Alshehhi
Cool roofs are a long-term alternative for the creation of a building?s thermal comfort as they can reduce the energy required for cooling demands and mitigate the urban heat island effect, thus benefitting both buildings and cities. Interest in cool roo...
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Xiaohuan Xie, Haitao Liao, Ruobing Wang and Zhonghua Gou
In recent years, semi-outdoor space has become an important research subject in the field of thermal comfort. Overhead space located on the ground floor is a common type of semi-outdoor space in China?s Lingnan region with a hot and humid climate. Its th...
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Carlos C. Duarte and Nuno D. Cortiços
China promptly took the leading step to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, producing the first scientific guidelines assuming health above energy consumption and significantly changing HVAC/AHU operation. The research intended to fulfill the gap by measuri...
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Pei Ding, Jin Li, Mingli Xiang, Zhu Cheng and Enshen Long
A new heat transfer calculation method for ground-coupled floors was established. This method was applied particularly to temporary emergency housing. Results showed it was more efficient than the finite volume method. The effects of initial soil tempera...
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Shahin Eskandarsefat, Loretta Venturini, Augusto Ciarlitti, Enea Sogno and Isabella Ottonelli
Ever-increasing traffic loads, in addition to hot climates, have always been a challenge for both road pavement authorities and engineers. Technically, asphalt binder and concrete modifiers that generally increase the viscosity and provide higher resista...
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