The 28th AIVC and 2nd Palenc Conference, Building Low Energy Cooling and Ventilation Technologies in the 21st Century, was held in Crete, Greece, 27-29 September 2007.
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This document aims to describe and present the energy efficient measures that are implemented in four dwellingsthat are currently under construction on the…
In this paper, the design and development of a web databasefor the purpose of storing and processing data produced by a complete building energy analysis is…
This paper looked into the possibilities of adaptive reusethrough the environmental retrofit of an existing warehouse. The project was built on the intent…
Traditional architecture while energy consumption has not been defined as today, have utilized some passive design methods by attending to the potentials of…
Ecology in Architecture Design (EAD) is a project with the main aim of developing a blended (face to face lecturesplus online activities) learning course…
This document describes the rehabilitation of the GeneralSecretariat Information Systems (GSIS building) and the description of the energy measures that…
This research aims at developing new standardized typologiesof semitransparent double skin facades formed by an external semitransparent PV laminate, a wide…
In idyllic Athens of the 5th century B.C. while gazing out at the Aegean Sea, Aristotle codified the theory of the presocratic philosophers on the value of…
This paper describes ongoing energy benchmarks studies of double-skin façade buildings. A comparison between energy performance of these actual buildings…
In the last decades researches have indicated an extremelyhigh energy consumption of the building sector. Analysing the amount of consumed energy, it is…
In this study we identify and describe the design strategiesadapted to the climate and used in ancient constructions.The research is focused on the…
Energy-efficiency benchmarking can be used to monitorchanges in overall efficiency of buildings. Benchmarkingmodels, based on energy-efficiency indicators…
The heating system of the bioclimatic building of CRES comprises the entire heating plant including a solar assistedheat pump, the Solar Air Collectors (SAC…
This paper presents the basic parameters and energy flows of an aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) systemcombined with reversible water/water heat pumps…
Due to the exhaustion of fossil resources and greenhouse warming, the control of energy has become a key subject for the 21st century. To control energy…
Thermal insulation in the warm climate can reduce the energy demand for cooling in residential buildings up to 70%.To define the gap in between the actual…
One of the current challenges in the urban climate researcharea mentions the standardization of procedures for data collection and analysis (OKE, 2005);…
The solar cooling plant in the Rethymno village Hotel supplies cooling energy to the dinning room as well as it supplies hot water to its central Domestic…
Daylighting control systems have quite high potential to reduce building’s energy consumption and peak demand. Despite this potential, reported poor…
A two-storey wood frame house for the experimental study of hybrid residential ventilation was built in the campus of the Brno University of Technology in…