The increase of energy needs and its impacts on global warming and energy prices made it
imperative to utilize various renewable energy sources including PV. Accordingly, there is a …

ABSTRACT Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), a significant technological tool to
reduce carbon emissions from buildings, have attracted extensive research attention …

Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) is a promising solution for providing building energy
and realizing net-zero energy buildings. Based on the developed mathematical model, this …

The susceptibility of building materials to biological colonization is associated with
accelerated decay processes, aesthetical alterations and health risks. Thus, preventive …

The expected increase of the penetration of distributed renewable energy technologies into
the electricity grid is expected to lead to major challenges. As a main stakeholder, authorities …

At the conceptual design stage, the building geometry design can predict the building load
demand and renewable energy application potential to some extent. Geometry design …

Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems are considered a promising solution to
increase the share of renewable energy in the built environment. To evaluate the BIPV …

This research analyses the reduction of primary energy consumption (PE) 1 of slab and high-
rise housing typologies through the optimization of their building shapes. The process …

In this study, an examination was conducted on weather data gathered from the Murzuq
weather station over a period of nine months, specifically focusing on 15-minute time series …

Incident solar radiation modelling has become of vital importance not only in architectural
design considerations, but also in the estimation of the energy production of photovoltaic …