Energy, economic and environmental benefits of integrating passive design strategies into buildings: A review

Y Elaouzy, A El Fadar - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Passive design has recently received increasing attention as an option to reduce energy
consumption, abate carbon footprint and alleviate energy bills of buildings by taking …

A review of energy efficiency interventions in public buildings

N Papadakis, DA Katsaprakakis - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
This research provides a comprehensive exploration of energy efficiency dynamics in non-
residential public buildings such as schools, swimming pools, hospitals, and museums …

[HTML][HTML] Latest advancements and challenges of technologies and methods for accelerating the sustainable energy transition

A Buonomano, G Barone, C Forzano - Energy Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
This editorial discusses the contributions of the papers belonging to the virtual special issue
(VSI) of Energy Reports dedicated to 16th Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and …

A 2E, energy and environment performance of an optimized vernacular house for passive cooling-Case of North-East India

SK Gupta, PR Chanda, A Biswas - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy consumption in buildings has been increasing in recent years due to global
warming, resulting in the increased use of HVACs, and causing environmental pollution. To …

Hybrid AC-DC distribution system for building integrated photovoltaics and energy storage solutions for heating-cooling purposes. A case study of a historic building in …

C Charalambous, C Heracleous, A Michael… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the main concerns globally is the phenomenon of climate change thus we have to
move to a cleaner and sustainable development in different energy sectors. An important …

Adaptive thermal comfort approach to save energy in tropical climate educational building by artificial intelligence

LA López-Pérez, JJ Flores-Prieto - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This work shows a comparative study of energy savings in an air-conditioning educational
building in Aw's tropical climate regarding annual cooling load and degree-days, with …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal conductivity improvement in a green building with Nano insulations using machine learning methods

M Ghalandari, A Mukhtar, ASHM Yasir, A Alkhabbaz… - Energy Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the energy loss of the green building is optimized based on the thickness and
lay-up of the Nano-insulation. As different thicknesses and lay-up of the Nano-insulation …

Review of Hot Topics in the Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems Conference in 2022

W Chu, M Vicidomini, F Calise, N Duić, PA Østergaard… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current applications in the energy sector are based largely on fossil fuels which release
greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. To face the issue of global warming, the …

Optimising Building Energy and Comfort Predictions with Intelligent Computational Model

S Alghamdi, W Tang, S Kanjanabootra, D Alterman - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Building performance prediction is a significant area of research, due to its potential to
enhance the efficiency of building energy management systems. Its importance is …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of methodologies to quantify education system resilience—A scoping review

J Dülks, A Fekete, H Karutz, J Kaufmann… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Schools and other educational institutions are important pillars for the well-being of society.
However, education continuity is increasingly threatened by negative influences such as …