Improving energy efficiency of existing buildings is currently among the most diverse and
extensive mitigation opportunities to reduce energy consumption and CO 2 emissions …

Moisture buffering in buildings is well known to influence material durability, building-scale
energy efficiency, and indoor environmental quality. In this work, we present a …

Current insulation materials in the construction market, which are predominantly inorganic
materials, have a high performance in relation to heat transfer, ie high R-values, but the …

Thermal comfort and Indoor air quality (IAQ) in residential buildings with different degrees of
airtightness was studied in two climates in Spain. Behaviour was compared in the areas …

For predicting and evaluating the hygrothermal performance of buildings, predicting the risk
of mould growth and improving the durability of the structure, an accurate dynamic …

The Public Health and Safety Department of Dubai Municipality had evaluated the indoor air
quality in public buildings in 2013, then established the IAQ (Indoor Air Quality) regulation …

Phase change materials (PCMs) have high thermal inertia while hygroscopic materials have
high hygric inertia. However, few studies have integrated the two materials and considered …

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 …

Probabilistic building performance simulations enables a method for evaluating how the
data quality used to create input models affects the accuracy of the predicted energy …

Hygrothermal behavior of a new building material, composed of cement, sand and date
palm fibers was investigated in the present work. In a first part, the sorption-desorption …