LoginA glazed space adjacent to an air-conditioned room is an innovative architectural solution to use the energy contribution of solar radiation in the winter and in the intermediate months, whereas in the summer adequate shading systems are needed.
Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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The integration of solar thermal systems, in buildings has been an aim of intense research over the last thirty years.
This paper is an introduction into the architectural tradition of India from a climatic point of view for the PALENC 2005 1st International Conference.
An in-dept analysis of a large office building built in the 60s (occupied by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, chosen for its representativity of buildings built in the 50s and 60s) has been performed.
Forward of the shortage of energy resources, the rational use of the energy started to be a subject of great relevance. In the last years, the countries come taking conscience of this and searching alternatives to optimise the energy use.
Implementing low energy design principles and measures in buildings depends on a series of architectural, structural and legal parameters.
Today Contemporary Technology is the basic factor for the environmental protection and the Sustainable Development.
The thermal and visual performance of eleven residential building has been studied during the architectural design. In order to evaluate the performance of the building a number of thermal and visual simulations have been done.
Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of buildings has begun to receive more attention from the UK construction industry.
The paper is divided in two parts: the first is about the microclimatic function of the vegetation in built area. Experimental data in different contexts case studies- are analysed in order to define guide-lines for cooling.
This work aims at applying a numerical analysis methodology, based on CFD techniques, to evaluate the effect of the wind and the temperature over the quality vision of a new telescope in La Palma (Spain).
The insertion of Phase Change Materials (PCM) inside light dry assembled building envelopes seems to be the right way to solve overheating problems usually caused by the low thermal inertia of such walls.
A large number of design guidelines and tools are available for the design of passive cooling systems.
China is rightly regarded as a country in which progress on developing sustainable and low energy solutions for building design is essential.
Achieving good building energy performance has been a major challenge in architecture but has intensified over the past twenty years.
As dry assembled multi-layered walls very often suffer overheating in hot climates because of their low thermal inertia, the appropriate use of Phase Change Materials (PCM) inside the same walls can increase their thermal mass before they reach hi
This paper challenges the conception that comfort can exist only w/in strict parameters, should be achieved w/o inhabitant interaction, and cannot be achieved w/o mechanical means.
The use of centralized air-conditioning systems in buildings with fixed windows is becoming an increasingly high-risk strategy in buildings for a number of reasons.
The energy consumption matter for the building sector has come up again urgently looking for standards, measures, policies and best practices.
A low energy technique for heat removal from the interior of a building under summer conditions is the employ of natural ventilation. There are several ways to promote this ventilation.