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Marta Fernandes Oliveira, Paulo Mendonça, Martin Tenpierik, Pedro Santiago, José F. Silva and Lígia Torres Silva
How to analyse the omissions of thermal regulations and evaluate methodologies that provide building execution or thermal certificates that do not correspond to reality and usually incur costs? We can start by analysing different simulation methods and s...
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Muawia Dafalla and Ahmed Al-Mahbashi
The ground surface of green parks in arid and semi-arid areas may not be comfortable at specific times during the day and night due to the sun and the rate at which the subsoil gains or loses heat. Knowledge of the subsurface soil?s thermal properties ca...
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Ale? Rubina, Pavel Uher, Jakub Vrána, Miloslav Novotný, Ondrej Nespe?ný, Daniel Skrek, Eva ?uhajdová, Jan Vystrcil and Marian Formánek
The article presents current research results in the field of airflow through a façade with a width of 1 m and a height of 13.7 m and with a ventilated gap, and its effect on the year-round heat balance of this façade. An idea to influence airflow in the...
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Ali Saberi-Derakhtenjani, Andreas K. Athienitis, Ursula Eicker and Edwin Rodriguez-Ubinas
Radiant floor systems offer significant potential for studying and developing energy flexibility strategies for buildings and their interaction with smart grids. Efficient design and operation of such systems require several critical decisions on design ...
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Laura Annabelle Bugenings and Aliakbar Kamari
Due to climate change, the rise in global temperature causes an increased need for cooling to satisfy occupants? thermal comfort. Application of architecture passive design strategies, so-called bioclimatic architecture strategies, based on the local cli...
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Katia Jiménez Mejía, María del Mar Barbero-Barrera and Manuel Rodríguez Pérez
Construction materials and systems for the thermal building envelope have played a key role in the improvement of energy efficiency in buildings. Urban heat islands together with the upcoming rising global temperature demand construction solutions that a...
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Drying and firing of ceramic products are processes that require high energy consumption. Making these processes more efficient can improve product quality, reduce processing time and energy consumption, and promote economic and environmental gains. In t...
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The usage of greenery systems as nature-based solutions to assist in urban cooling in summer time as well as urban warming in wintertime is considered a scientific validated approach in urban planning. The objective of this research is the investigation ...
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Roberta Masci and Enrico Sciubba
Modern gas turbine firing temperatures (1500?2000 K) are well beyond the maximum allowable blade material temperatures. Continuous safe operation is made possible by cooling the HP turbine first stages, nozzle vanes and rotor blades, with a portion of th...
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Ventilated façades are among the existing measures to reduce the energy demand in buildings. The combination of this passive heating and cooling strategy with photovoltaics (PV) can drive new buildings towards the current European targets near or ...
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