The 34th AIVC - 3rd TightVent - 2nd Cool Roofs - 1st venticool Conference - Energy conservation technologies for mitigation and adaptation in the built environment: the role of ventilation strategies and smart materials was held in Athens, Greece, 25-26 September 2013.
Contains 130 papers.
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The increase of the ambient air temperatures in urban areas during the past few decades, due to the heat island phenomenon and the warming of the lower…
Carbon dioxide has been already recognized as a potential tracer gas towards estimation of the mean air exchange rates (ACH) of a room or building. The wind…
Cooling energy savings in a building with the roof coated by high reflectance paint are examined. It is difficult to recognize the cooling energy savings by…
The EPBD directive (91/2002/EU) paved the way for the European Union member states to develop and apply a holistic approach on the building’s energy…
Nowadays, important efforts are made to reduce the residential building energy consumption. In this context, a growing interest for heat recovery…
Toward the appropriate selection of urban heat island measures technology in the street canyon, the introduction effects of the technologies in the typical…
Heat recovery ventilation became an unavoidable element of a passive or nearly zero energy building in Northern and Central Europe countries. Airtightness…
With the continuous improvement of the energy performance of buildings, ventilation plays a crucial role in the control of pollutants from indoor sources…
As a consequence of the energy and environmental issues, it is necessary to reduce the energy consumption of buildings. So, the air tightness of building…
Roofs are the envelope component more severely hit by solar radiation in summer (1470 kWh/m2 on average in Italy), hence one may expect that using cool…
The PerFluorocarbon Tracer (PFT) method is a low-cost method commonly used for measuring air exchange in buildings. This is a specific instance of the…
This paper describes part of the research that is being done on the prediction of the performance of light pipes and the ways to optimize their design, in…
There is a growing consensus that the climate is changing faster than at any time in the past millennium. This is likely to have major effects upon many…
The materials that are used in outdoor spaces are of prime importance as they modulate the air temperature of the lowest layers of the urban canopy layer,…
In order to improve the quality of ventilation systems, assessments are widely used. In this paper, 3 main assessment levels are distinguished based on the…
The raise of sustainability in the urban design is a key-factor for addressing the challenges in response to climate change, resource availability,…
Highly reflective building envelope materials are widely identified as an effective design option to limit the peak surface temperatures of roofs in summer…
French authorities have launched an extensive thermal renovation program aiming at retrofitting 4M dwellings over 10 years, with priority given to the most…
Few studies focus on commercial low-rise buildings which are often characterized by low-cost constructions materials and weak energy performances. For these…
Effective conservation of historic buildings subject to monumental restrictions is realized through a re-use for modern functions. In fact an attended and…