Energy demand has been increasing worldwide and the building sector represents a large percentage of global energy consumption. Therefore, promoting energy efficiency in …
Event-based landslide inventories are essential sources to broaden our understanding of the causal relationship between triggering events and the occurring landslides. Moreover …
The most prominent challenge in 21th century is global warming which seriously threats the mankind. Building sector with 40% of global energy consumption and GHG emission play a …
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of the atrium ceiling on catching sea breeze, indoor thermal comfort, and natural ventilation in the buildings in coastal areas with …
A systematic review of the technological options and strategies to achieve zero energy buildings was carried out to establish today state-of-the-art knowledge base and to present …
T Zhang, Y Tan, H Yang, X Zhang - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Air layer involved envelopes (ALIEs) have gained considerable popularity in modern building design and construction, owing to their great potential in improving the building …
PK Latha, Y Darshana, V Venugopal - Journal of Building Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Changing climatic scenario and raising temperature is likely to subject nearly 60% of the working populations in India to thermal discomfort in their workplaces. Half of the total …
Ventilative cooling technologies have the potential to be an effective measure to reduce buildings energy consumption, by meeting some or all of the cooling requirement of a …
A review of current heat recovery devices was undertaken in an attempt to determine the major factors preventing the integration of heat recovery technology into passive ventilation …