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Evaluating the Effect of Different Base Temperatures to Calculate Degree-Days
(Sciendo, 2020-09)
Degree-days are used as a forecasting tool to predict energy demand and for normalizing energy consumption to be able to compare between different properties across different years. The base temperature is the main aspect ...
Assessment of Social Housing Energy and Thermal Performance in Relation to Occupants & Behaviour and COVID-19 Influence: A Case Study in the Basque Country, Spain
(MDPI, 2022-05-06)
Evidence shows that people have a major impact on building performance. Occupants’ impact is especially important in social housing, where their occupants may present greater vulnerabilities, and their needs are not always ...
Experimental study on the thermal control of a roof-top collective building antenna using a porous matrix filled with Water-Copper nanofluid
(Elsevier, 2022-04)
This experimental work addressed the thermal control a roof-top collective building antenna meant to control home equipment in smart buildings. The antenna was placed inside a concentric quasi-cylindrical cavity maintained ...
Challenges for Digitalisation in Building Renovation to Enhance the Efficiency of the Process: A Spanish Case Study
(MDPI, 2021-11-03)
Although construction is one of the largest industries in the world, it is one of the least digitised and its productivity is still very low. Excesses of time and cost are common and are even more accentuated for building ...
Improving Energy Performance of Historic Buildings through Hygrothermal Assessment of the Envelope
(MDPI, 2021-09-15)
The intervention on historic buildings through building energy retrofitting has become one of the current challenges of improving energy efficiency. Nonetheless, this building typology presents certain complexities. Among ...
Calibration of the X-ray Diffraction Technique in Measuring In-service Stresses in Corrugated Steel Bars
(Springer, 2021-10-25)
[EN]The X-ray diffraction technique for determining residual stresses in construction steels has been commonly used in the international scientific community for decades. Taking advantage of the concepts on which the ...
Urban Green Infrastructure as a Strategy to Address Urban Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. A Case Study of Milagrosa (Pamplona)
(MDPI, 2021-12-21)
Green Infrastructure (GI) has gained importance in recent years as it has been revealed as an essential piece to face the environmental problem generated by the incessant growth of urbanization, loss of biodiversity, and ...
Barriers and challenges of the assessment framework of the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2019/786 on building renovation by European RTD projects
(Elsevier, 2022-08)
The refurbishment of buildings is one of the main keys to pursue the targets of the European Green Deal, and to accomplish the European Union has applied two mechanisms among others: the European policy and the European ...
Airtightness Analysis of the Built Heritage–Field Measurements of Nineteenth Century Buildings through Blower Door Tests
(MDPI, 2020-12-20)
Airtightness is a major issue in architectural design and it has a significant impact on the energy performance of buildings. Moreover, the energy behaviour of built heritage is due, to its singular characteristics, still ...
Experimental development and testing of low-cost scalable radiative cooling materials for building applications
(Elsevier, 2021-09-15)
Urban overheating has a serious impact on building energy consumption. Daytime radiative cooling materials are an interesting passive solution for refrigeration. However, their costs and complex manufacturing hinder their ...