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Adaptive approach-based assessment of a heritage residential complex in southern Spain for improving comfort and energy efficiency through passive strategies: A study based on a monitored flat
(Elsevier, 2019-08)
The energy retrofitting of residential stock is not always straightforward where heritage protected housing is concerned. In southern Europe, many examples built under the Modern Movement codes are now obsolete in terms ...
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Assessment of Indoor Environmental Quality for Retrofitting Classrooms with An Egg-Crate Shading Device in A Hot Climate
(2019-02)
In the Mediterranean climate, a large number of educational buildings suffer from discomfort due mostly to energy-deficient thermal envelopes and a lack of cooling systems. Impending climate change is expected to worsen ...
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Addressing the potential for improvement of urban building stock: a protocol applied to a Mediterranean Spanish case
(Elsevier, 2021-08)
Current plans to combat the environmental global impact of the building sector have encouraged research on sustainable actions for increasing the renovation rate of many buildings whose performance is far from meeting ...
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Air change rates and infection risk in school environments: Monitoring naturally ventilated classrooms in a northern Italian urban context
(Elsevier, 2023-09)
The importance of building ventilation in avoiding long-distance airborne transmission has been highlighted with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemics. Among others, school environments, in particular classrooms, present ...
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Assessment of vulnerability to overheating at a regional scale through parametric simulation models and cooling degree-days analysis: the case of southern Spanish social housing stock
(Elsevier, 2023-08-15)
The urgent need to adapt urban environments to extreme weather conditions due to global warming has become a priority when allocating European funds. Current regional retrofitting plans focus on improving the well-being ...