Competition Challenges Architects and Students to Design Zero Net Energy Housing in CaliforniaArchitecture at Zero, now in its fourth year, is challenging all students, architects and designers worldwide to envi...Architecture at ZeroOaklandArchdaily...
2016). Karpinska and Śmiech argue that approximately one-fourth of the region’s population is exposed to ‘hidden energy poverty’, a concept that is able to look more closely at the challenges households face to pay their
THE ARCHITECTURE OF SOLAR ENERGY, CONSERVATION AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR LARGE BUILDINGS FRED S.DUBIN,P.E.M.ARCH, inEnergy, Resources and Environment, 1982 ABSTRACT Buildings consume an ever-increasing amount of the world's energy resources. A new architecture and engineering approach to building ...
While the benefits of buildings are clear, there are also challenges in implementing these buildings. These challenges include higher upfront costs, a lack of awareness and understanding, and regulatory barriers. However, there are solutions to these challenges. For example, financial incentives, such...
De-Paola, A., Ferraro, P., Lo-Re, G., Morana, M. & Ortolani, M. A fog-based hybrid intelligent system for energy saving in smart buildings. Mokhtari, G., Anvari-Moghaddam, A. & Zhang, Q. A new layered architecture for future big data-driven smart homes.IEEE Access7, 563.(20...
The definition of the architecture as well as efficiency appraisal of zero-energy buildings is the key parameter to see the future commercialization of the technology [209]. Different meanings can lead to different specifications and standards for energy saving. From an international viewpoint, accordi...
CG: From the perspective of the Government of Extremadura, we are convinced that the use of low energy measures carries no limitation and presents a number of economic and environmental benefits. One of the main challenges we face is getting the funding to put initiatives like this into practice...
Chinese power grid companies have been transforming from traditional electricity suppliers into integrated energy service providers in response to the opportunities and challenges brought about by the green energy revolution. State Grid Hunan Integrated Energy Services (IES) and Huawei have developed a Smar...
mainly about exterior walls,windows and roofs.Then it builds up a prototypical existing office building model using EnergyPlus to simulate and calculate the decrease of cooling and heating loads due to various retrofitting strategies for envelope.The energy saving effects of the strategies are ...
factors that are pertinent to the building, socio-demographics, and a wider range of occupated-related variables, such as attitudes towards climate change, energy-saving actions, self-reported heating practices. The variables were chosen based on previous research (see Section 1), and limited by ...