Thermal Behaviour, Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Sustainable Construction

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Technology: general issues; accuracy; adaptive comfort; aerogel; air renovation; analytical methods; building; building automation systems; building energy; building energy consumption; building energy efficiency; building energy statistics; building envelope; calculation procedures; China; climate changes; climate zones; CO2 emissions; cold climates; compressed earth blocks (CEBs); compressive strength; condensation; crushed glass; DesignBuilder; durability; dynamic conditions; dynamic simulation; earth building; economic analysis; energy balance sheet; energy consumption; energy demand; energy demand analysis; energy efficiency; energy needs; Energy performance; energy savings; energy use prediction; EnergyPlus; envelope; environmental impact; evaluation; facade wall; GenOpt; glazed balcony; guarded hot box; heating and cooling system; heating control; heating set-points; HeLLo; historic masonries; house; hygrothermal measurement; hygrothermal modeling; hygrothermal properties; IDA ICE; in situ; indoor comfort; insulation materials; inter-laboratory testing; LCA; light steel frame; lightweight steel frame; LSF construction; LSF walls; Mediterranean climate; metering hot box; Model simplifications; moisture transport; mold; monitoring and simulation; neural network; non-intrusive measurements; numerical simulations; occupant behavior; office use; on-board monitoring; optimization; optimization and management; overhangs; overheating risk; parametric study; partition wall; passive design; passive solar; passive strategies; performance assessment; periodic thermal transmittance; Residential building; residential buildings; residential use; retrofitting; social housing; support vector machine; Thermal and visual comfort; thermal behavior; thermal bridges; thermal comfort; thermal performance; thermal transmittance; Trombe wall; U-value; ventilation; vernacular architecture; water vapor resistivity
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 This Special Issue includes 20 contributions from across the world with very interesting and current research topics, such as insulation solutions and CO2 emissions; thermal transmittance of LSF walls; statistics for China's building energy consumption; natural ventilation; thermal behavior of an earthbag building; thermal performance and comfort in a vernacular building; overheating risk under future extreme weather conditions; analytical methods to estimate the thermal transmittance of LSF walls; model simplification on energy and comfort simulation analysis; Trombe wall thermal behavior and energy efficiency of an LSF compartment; new metering hot box for in situ hygrothermal measurement; mechanical and thermal performance of compressed earth blocks; life-cycle assessment of a new house; energy analyses of Serbian buildings with horizontal overhangs; thermal properties of mortar blocks by using recycled glass; prediction of cooling energy consumption building using machine learning techniques; occupants' behavior, climate change, heating, and cooling energy needs of buildings; a new method for establishing a hygrothermally controlled test room; nonintrusive measurements to incorporate the air renovations in dynamic models; and retrofit of existing buildings with aerogel panels.