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Assessing thermal comfort in the Mediterranean social housing stock through test cells: Comparison of double-skin, externally insulated and non-retrofitted facades
(Elsevier, 2022-10)
Climate change will derive in severe repercussions to the built indoor environment, evidencing the importance of retrofitting buildings. Thus, the improvement of energy efficiency of facades is of the utmost relevance, ...
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Albedo influence on the microclimate and thermal comfort of courtyards under Mediterranean hot summer climate conditions
(Elsevier, 2022)
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect represents a threat to the well-being of cities. Cities must adapt to this phenomenon, prioritizing the improvement of outdoor environment quality. Urban materials have a great impact on ...
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Assessing and upgrading urban thermal resilience of a Spanish MoMo neighbourhood over the span of 1960–2080
(Elsevier, 2024-05-15)
We are currently witnessing an unprecedentedly fast change in environmental parameters for which most cities worldwide are not well prepared. One of the most characteristic urban fabrics of many European cities is the ...
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Environmental benchmarking of building typologies through BIM-based combinatorial case studies
(Elsevier, 2021-12)
Integrated life-cycle assessment (LCA) tools have emerged as decision-making support for BIM practitioners during the design stage of sustainable projects. However, differences between methodologies applied for determining ...
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Optimización del campo lumínico para promover un adecuado ritmo circadiano en centros de trabajo de actividad continuada
(2024-02-26)
Los ritmos circadianos son ciclos biológicos diarios responsables de diferentes funciones del cuerpo humano como la temperatura corporal, el apetito, la secreción de hormonas o los patrones de sueño, siendo la melatonina ...
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The importance of citizen participation in improving comfort and health in obsolete neighbourhoods affected by energy poverty
(Elsevier, 2024)
This study analyses comfort and health in obsolete neighbourhoods in regions with high rates of energy poverty. The Polígono San Pablo in the city of Seville, Spain has been chosen as a case study. The research aims to ...
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Closing the energy flexibility gap: Enriching flexibility performance rating of buildings with monitored data
(Elsevier, 2024-05-15)
Quantifying and rating energy flexibility in existing buildings will become increasingly important as building energy services become electrified. Flexibility ratings based on building design specifications have shown ...
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Parametric energy optimization of a ventilated facade with windows in Mediterranean climates
(Elsevier, 2024-06)
Ventilated facades are an effective passive measure to improve the energy performance of buildings in warm and temperate climates such as the Mediterranean. However, although in the Mediterranean sociocultural context the ...
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Optimizing a courtyard microclimate with adaptable shading and evaporative cooling in a hot mediterranean climate
(Elsevier, 2024-07-01)
While in recent years significant improvements have been made in the thermal adaptation of indoor building environments, less progress has been made in improving thermal comfort in transitional spaces next to buildings. ...
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Assessment of indoor air quality and risk of COVID-19 infection in Spanish secondary school and university classrooms
(Elsevier, 2022)
Despite the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Spanish educational centers were reopened after six months of lockdown. Ventilation was mostly adopted as a preventive measure to reduce the transmission risk of the ...