...Geoffrey P. Hammond Malcolm Slesser (1926–2007) – a Scottish engineer, mountaineer and writer – was at the forefront of the development of ‘energy analysis’ ( EA ), based on the principle of energy conservation stemming from the first law of thermodynamics. He acted as rapporteur of a 1974...

... Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2025 block scale buildings, structures & design carbon emissions energy GIS residential buildings sustainability urban form A building area A total building area COP_C...

... is an energy-intensive process, and thus it needs a sustainable and energy-efficient approach in executing the modern building system. Panelised prefabrication is one such proven technique. The present work briefly describes the development of sustainable construction products made from locally available agro...

...Ru-Xi Ding, PhD; Ming-Yi Li, MSc; Bing Yang, MSc; Xiaojing Zhao, PhD With the increasing global demand for sustainable development, China, being one of the world’s most populous countries, is confronted with increasingly prominent challenges in sustainable development of environment and energy...

...Kaveh Iravani, MSc Modern technologies are more than ever adopting intelligent designs that respond to environmental variants to produce more desirable outcomes. In the building and housing industries, intelligent designs aim to conserve energy through temperature controls and energy storage...

...Mustafa Serhan Ünlütürk; Türkan Göksal Özbalta, PhD Airtightness is one of the crucial physical characteristics of building envelope that affect the building thermal performance and energy consumption. The airtightness of the building is influenced by the quality of workmanship and various design...

...Okan Kon, BSc, MSc, PhD; Aslan Deniz Karaoglan, BSc, MSc, PhD; Ismail Caner, BSc, MSc, PhD In this study, the electrical energy consumption of an apartment building was calculated depending on different design parameters. The electrical energy consumption was found according to the population...

...Merve Kuru Erdem, MSc, BSc; Onur Sariçiçek, BSc; Gulben Calis, PhD, MSc, BSc The relevance, relative importance and colinearity of input parameters to the results of building energy demand forecasts were investigated. Two calendar years of historical data including weather variables and days...

... of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems and the energy performance of buildings. Detailed occupancy information can improve HVAC operation and utilisation of building spaces. Strategies such as vision-based occupancy detection and recognition have recently garnered much interest...

...Giulio Vialetto, PhD; Marco Noro, PhD In recent years, interest in artificial intelligence has been increasing in the energy sector, with the aim of improving efficiency and decreasing overall consumption. Innovative methods such as pattern recognition, artificial neural networks or other machine...

... in eight different climate zones in Australia. Therefore, this research aimed to understand how different climate zones may impact the energy related to OB and compare this impact between a green-rated building and a building without any rating. The results showed that there is no correlation between...

... buildings affect solar conditions, which can have positive and negative effects on the surrounding areas. The present work evaluates how the location and surrounding environment of a building affect its energy performance by undertaking parametric modelling. In this research, a 12-storey residential...

...Qiong He, PhD; Md Uzzal Hossain, PhD; S Thomas Ng, PhD, FICE; Godfried Augenbroe, PhD Considering the significant consumption of energy in existing building stocks, effective retrofitting has great potential for reducing such consumption and promoting sustainability in existing buildings...

... on the seven-point scale for both seasons. (corresponding author: ismail@balikesir.edu.tr) 16 10 2019 11 03 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 energy energy conservation statistical analysis A weighting factor that depends on the air velocity...

...-zero-energy buildings’ (nZEBs) were introduced by the Energy Performance Building Directive (recast) in 2010 as a realistic solution to the intrinsic environmental debt associated with most existing buildings. This paper aims to carry out a life-cycle cost (LCC) analysis to identify what is a cost...

...Tariq Umar, MSc, CEng, IntPE (UK), MICE; Charles Egbu, PhD, FRICS, FCIOB, FAPM, FRSA, FHEA Energy is crucial to economic and social development and improves quality of life. However, fossil fuel energy produces greenhouse gases (GHGs) and cannot be sustained for a long time. It is essential...

...Hindavi R Gavali, MTech; Rahul V Ralegaonkar, PhD Building information modelling (BIM) is one of the effective ways for deciding the suitable building orientation and envelope that controls project cost, time and energy. The present paper elaborates the application of BIM for sustainable urban-poor...

... the difference in heating energy saving related to the efficiency of the heat transfer fluid. In particular, two working fluids, water and nanofluid (3·0 vol% aluminium oxide (Al₂O₃) nanoparticles in bidistilled water), have been simulated, showing a significant increment, up to 36·54...

... of extraction fans installed in the cavity of the DSF adjoining a central atrium impacts the thermal condition of the atrium and, consequently, the overall energy consumption of an existing UK hotel building. The results of the investigation demonstrated that the DSF extraction fans improve the internal...

...Tariq Umar, MSc, CEng, MICE Oman, like other Arabian Gulf countries, depends on oil and gas to produce electricity. However, these resources are not guaranteed to last forever and constitute one of the energy security issues in the country. This paper explores the potential of using biomass energy...