Building envelope is a key element in providing adequate energy and thermal comfort
performance to buildings. In this regard, improvement solutions are implemented in recent …

The continuous growth of building energy consumption and carbon emissions has
aggravated the balance between environment and energy, in which building heating and …

Researchers world-wide are investigating thermal energy storage, especially phase change
materials, for their substantial benefits in improving energy efficiency, sustaining thermal …

In certain Moroccan regions, weather conditions are extreme; the outside ambient
temperature varies between 45° C during the day and 25° C at night in the estival period …

Light-weight materials are comprehensively used to reduce the building weight in high-rise
or super high-rise buildings, but they will reduce building thermal inertia remarkably, which …

It is crucial to develop thermal insulation solutions for opaque envelopes of low-energy
buildings that match the global sustainable development vision. With the popularity of low …

The numerical research of a wall (wall or ceiling) in the presence of phase change materials
is undertaken in this work due to the relevance of energy consumption in buildings. One side …

This study presents the experimental results of concrete bricks based macroencapsulated
phase change material (PCM) in different capsule designs (circular, square and rectangular …

As the world's largest energy consumer, the building sector is under growing pressure to
reduce energy consumption and CO 2 emissions. To confront this challenge, the thermal …

Bio-based materials have strong hygrothermal behavior and phase change materials
(PCMs) have high thermal inertia, but they have usually been studied separately in most …