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Najeeba Kutty, Dua Barakat and Maatouk Khoukhi
Cities are paying more attention to building energy use and carbon footprint for attaining sustainability. Within this building sector, there is a growing attention toward development and adoption of energy efficient retrofit strategies. Plagued by the l...
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Alexis Caron-Rousseau, Pierre Blanchet and Louis Gosselin
While externally insulated wall assemblies are widely recognized for their hygrothermal performance, few research projects have focused on the impact of shifting the entire wall insulation to the exterior side of a structural cavity in cold or subarctic ...
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Jorge Otaegi, Rufino J. Hernández, Xabat Oregi, Alexander Martín-Garín and Iñigo Rodríguez-Vidal
In the last decade, several European directives have been established to contribute to the 2020, 2030 and 2050 energy saving targets and impose energy efficiency requirements for new construction, existing buildings and building renovation operations. On...
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Yonghang Lai, Ian A. Ridley and Peter Brimblecombe
Air exchange in tall apartment buildings is critical in controlling indoor environments in urban settings. Airtightness is relevant to energy efficiency, thermal comfort and air quality experienced by urban dwellers who spend much of their time indoors. ...
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Prakash Devkota and Joonam Park
The super-speed tube transport (SSTT) system, which enables high-speed transportation in a partially vacuumed tube by minimizing the air resistance, is drawing attention as a next-generation transportation system. To evaluate the applicability of concret...
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Philip Mckeen and Zaiyi Liao
Airflow into stairwells due to stack effect is a concern affecting fire safety, energy performance, and indoor air quality. Stack effect in tall buildings can create significant pressure differentials in vertical shafts when differences in outdoor and in...
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Hyo Seo Kwak, Hansaem Seong, Rivaldo Mersis Brilianto and Chul Kim
In combined cycle power plants (CCPPs), the bypass butterfly valve is a key component to facilitate regulation of exhaust gas energy available at the turbine and to not produce too much boost pressure. The conventional damper valve causes leakage, back f...
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Air leakage through the building envelope joints is usually one of the main reasons why airtightness targets are not achieved. The objective of this study was to analyse the air leakage of joints filled with polyurethane foam and its influencing factors....
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Social housing dating from the postwar years through the end of the twentieth century is one of the major stores of European cities’ residential stock. As it is generally characterised by a poor thermal performance and an inefficient control of ene...
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