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Improving comfort conditions as an energy upgrade tool for housing stock: analysis of a house prototype
(Elsevier, 2022-02)
Given the role of the building sector as one of the current main causes of pollution in cities, the promotion of research on energy efficiency and sustainable strategies is key. At the Solar Decathlon international ...
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Optimal retrofit solutions considering thermal comfort and intervention costs for the Mediterranean social housing stock
(Elsevier, 2022)
There is an impending need to retrofit the existing social housing stock to improve thermal comfort and to reduce energy demand. This research proposes calibrated building stock models to assess thermal comfort of the ...
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Solar Decathlon Latin America and Caribbean: Comfort and the Balance between Passive and Active Design
(MDPI, 2019)
This article contains an overall analysis of the results obtained by the four highest scoring teams in the Solar Decathlon Latin America and Caribbean 2015 collegiate sustainable habitat competition. Considering that the ...
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Daylighting and Energy Performance Evaluation of an Egg-Crate Device for Hospital Building Retrofitting in a Mediterranean Climate
(MDPI AG, 2018-08-02)
Hospital buildings present a significant savings potential in order to meet the objectives of H2020. The improvement of healthcare built environments contributes to improving the health of patients. In this respect, passive ...
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Indoor environmental assessment: comparing ventilation scenarios in pre- and post-retrofitted dwellings through test cells
(Elsevier, 2021-11)
In the next few years, outdoor temperature is expected to increase significantly as a result of climate change, a noticeable phenomenon, especially in the Mediterranean. In this future scenario, ventilation is a low-cost ...
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Design and Performance of Test Cells as an Energy Evaluation Model of Facades in a Mediterranean Building Area
(MDPI AG, 2017)
Abstract The current European energy policies have an influence on the need to rehabilitate the housing stock in order to meet the objectives of the European Union. Most of this housing stock was built without any type ...
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Evaluation of environmental comfort in a social housing prototype with bioclimatic double-skin in a tropical climate
(Elsevier, 2022)
The aim of this paper is to broaden understanding of the social housing prototype that students and researchers at the University of Seville developed in response to tropical climate conditions to achieve the maximum level ...
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Evaluación de riesgos, monitorización y simulación de edificios patrimoniales
(Grupo Español del IIC (International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works), 2020)
Los edificios religiosos son una parte importante del patrimonio cultural, son documentos de nuestra herencia y tenemos la necesidad de preservarlos. Las condiciones ambientales en el que están inmersos estos edificios ...
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Validation study for daylight dynamic metrics by using test cells in Mediterranean area
(IACSIT Press, 2018-12)
This paper presents the validation of two daylight dynamic predictive metrics, obtained through simulation with DaySim 3.2 tool: Daylight Autonomy (DA) and Continuous Daylight Autonomy (DAC). To that effect, a validation ...
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Thermal comfort prediction of the existing housing stock in southern Spain through calibrated and validated parameterized simulation models
(Elsevier, 2022-01-01)
Due to 2030 and 2050 targets of the latest international standards, energetically retrofitting the existing building sector requires special attention. Prior to the proposal of retrofit strategies, it is necessary to analyse ...