LoginThe building sector represents a great percentage of the total consumption of energy of a country, and of this, most is due to the existing buildings.
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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A well-known parameter in the calculation of solar gains for the heating requirements is the utilization factor concept.
Heat island is a very well documented climatic phenomenon that has an important energy and environmental impact in the urban environment.
Sunlight is necessary for life. Managing sunlight is necessary to achieve a level of comfort for living. Radiation transfer through glazing has an impact on costs for heating, cooling and lighting in a building and on environment.
This project is intended to supply information to architects and engineers throughout Europe to support the Energy Directive on Buildings through providing design and engineering details of high quality, low energy consumption public buildings thr
European Directive for Energy Performance of Buildings was approved in the beginning of 2003. The transition period is 3-6 years depending of the article.
The Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre is operated under Annex V of the Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems implementing agreement of the International Energy Agency.
This paper concentrates on the results of sustainability caused by climatic elements in Iranian traditional architecture in Hot-Humid regions.
The performance of a passive cooling system was evaluated as part of design works for the project of an auditorium.
Traditionally, a home for the elderly aimed exclusively at the accommodation and care of people of the 3rd and 4th age. In a modern and continuously evolving society, how this can remain stagnant?
This paper concentrates on the results of sustainability caused by natural cooling systems in Iranian traditional architecture of hot-arid regions.
A common rule of thumb in solar applications is that maximum solar input on a flat collector comes when facing towards the equator at a slope equal to the locations latitude.
Satellite images in the thermal infrared can be used for assessing the thermal urban environment as well as for defining heat islands in urban areas.
Techniques and technologies for use in designing, constructing and operating intelligent buildings are well known or available on the market and many intelligent buildings have been built.
This paper presents the results of a comparative study aiming to investigate the effect of reflective coatings on lowering surface temperatures of buildings and other surfaces of the urban environment, and thus test their suitability to lower ambi
Numerical simulations and computational fluid dynamics can be usefully integrated with architectural modeling, providing designers with a powerful single CFD based architectural modeling and design framework.
Human organism is probably the most perfect example of thermal behavior, adaptation to different climatic conditions, and a way of keeping it’s temperature constant, which is existent in nature.
The aim of this paper is to confront the designers practice knowledge on the behavior of natural ventilation due to wind action in housing buildings with complex internal partitions against experimental analogical airflow visualization.
The main design strategies when dealing with cooling are well known by now. The paper will not present options one by one, but will show how each one has been used as a starting point of design in recent projects.
Solar radiation is an important source of heat gain into the building and plays an important role as far as thermal comfort in a dwelling is concerned.