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Speaking about dialogue of authority and business, it is necessary to not forget, that besides it is necessary to consider both opinion and our inhabitants – for whom, first of all, we and work.

The Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) is an importantdeterminant in the comfort and hence productivity of workers in office buildings, and a number of studieshave been undertaken in the Western world which shows this. This paper explores the Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) in six office buildings in Tehran (Iran) with particular attention to thermal comfort.

Nightcooling is worldwide promoted as an effective tool to reduce cooling demands. However, it is clear that as long as the potential of nightcooling is not standardintegrated into energy performance calculations of buildings, its application will be strongly hampered. Firstly, practical experiences with nightcooling in an office are discussed. Secondly, it is found that of the countries analysed, only in the French energy performancelegislation (RT2005) the effect of a nightcooling system can be taken into account without the need of the principle of equivalence.

The paper describes a proposal for low-cost, low embodiedenergy, passively-cooled social housing in Limassol, Cyprus, using a simple universally available recycled prefabricationsystem. This system, using redundant shipping containers, has already been developed by the authors.The systems strategies, with regard to the choice of materials and their consequent transportation; its simpleconstruction method and very short time of erection and its provision for recycling and minimum waste, are inherently sustainable.

In this paper, indirect evaporative cooling in an air cooler has been modeled. This model has been obtained from the governing equations of heat and mass transfer in primaryand secondary air and water flows. Factors affectingon evaporative cooling performance such as mass flow rates, geometry and flow configuration has been investigated. Results show that cooling efficiency considerablydepends on mass flow rates ratios of primary and secondary air flows and spacing between plates of wet and dry passages.

The European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive(EPBD) encourages the use of technologies in buildings that can potentially improve their energy performance.Double ventilated faades can often have a positive contribution to this objective and their effect has to be quantified during the calculation of the overallenergy performance of the buildings. The updated EN ISO 13790 Standard is part of the new set of CEN Standards that have to be delivered to support the EPBD requirement for a general framework for the methodologyof calculation of the total energy performance of buildings.

The Millennium Development Goals, approved by 189 countries in September 2000, and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, adopted in 2002 by the World Summiton Sustainable Development (WSSD), emphasize the urgent need for greater commitment to reduce inequalitiesand assist in the development of poor countries.The 21 Mediterranean countries and the European Communitydecided in line with the WSSD process, to prepare a Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD), and requested the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) of the MediterraneanAction Plan (MAP) t

The current discussion about energy saving measures in the built environment and the forthcoming new European guidelines “Energy efficiency in Buildings” motivated an aluminium facade company (Hydro Buildings Systems) to set up an interdisciplinary team f

In order to reduce the energy cost for heating and improvethe internal conditions during the summer period in greenhouses, they have been investigated different solutions including passive cooling techniques and hybridsystems. Such kind of solutions is the minimization of the ventilation losses through cracks and openings, the increase of the thermal mass of the greenhouses and the use of ground heat exchangers.

This paper describes an educational and experimental tool developed under LabVIEW environment at LASH/DGCB (France) laboratory of ENTPE. The objective of this tool is to make students sensitive with HVAC equipments, measurements, heat recovery, and regulation techniques in order to expand and test heating, cooling and ventilation control strategies. A large room of the Buildings Sciences Laboratory (LASH) is equipped with balanced mechanical ventilation and a global control/data acquisition system.