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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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…
Earth heat exchange (EHX) through buried horizontal air ducts (EHXair-hor) can be an effective passive/ibryde system to reduce heating and cooling loads in…
The Project of Ponte da Pedra came out of an Ideas Competition, which is, by the beginning, a good indicatorof the high quality of the housing architecture…
The objective of this work is to find the optimum window-to-wall area ratio that minimizes the energy cost for cooling, heating and daylighting. Both…
The aim of the specific paper is the analysis of the efficiencyof power lines as a communication media for Building Energy Management Systems. The reason…
Installation of an evaporatively cooled hydroponic greenhouse on the roof of building can yield net energy savings for the combined structure, when compared…
The buildings sector accounts for 40% of the energy requirements in Europe, which is more than by industryor transport. That is a lot and it is too much!…
In many urban areas, pavements and roofs constitute over 60% of urban surfaces (roof 20-25%, pavements about 40%). The roof and the pavement albedo can be…
This paper presents the thermal comfort levels in a bioclimaticbuilding situated in the greater Athens area in Greece. The study was carried out under…
Throughout architectural history, local buildings have used great in providing the most comfortable internal conditions possible within the exigencies and…
Heating and cooling buildings needs too much energy consumption; thing that is becoming rare and more expensive.Internal thermal comfort is essentially…
Macroclimatic forces have been important factors ever since man first constructed shelter. Throughout architecturalhistory, local buildings have used great…
The paper describes a method to show how Building Simulation data can be interpreted to provide informationthat is of use to non-Building Simulation experts…
Since 1999, several widely used building energy efficiencystandards, including ASHRAE 90.1, ASHRAE 90.2, the International Energy Conservation Code, and…
The application of system identification techniques to the energy performance assessment of buildings and building components requires a high level of…
which is a typical residential building in the South MediterraneanSea. The house type is also representative for second home. It is a two-storey house that…
The case study in question is that of the refurbishment of a building constituted by four school pavilions built in the post-war period of the 20th Century…