Contemporary Odeon Buildings as a Sustainable Environment for Culture

Adaptive HVAC zone modeling for sustainable buildings

Control of energy flows within a building is critical to achieving optimal performance of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. To design optimal HVAC control strategies, a dynamic model of the HVAC system – particularly the building zones that it services – is essential. As analysis of building energy consumption is facilitated by the accurate prediction of indoor environme...

Syracuse Limestone: From the Past a Prospect for Contemporary Buildings

The conservation of the historic stone heritage has great importance when this material characterizes the image of a city, as it happens in Syracuse (Sicily). Its historical buildings are afflicted by a heavy state of deterioration due to the particular microclimate, to pollution and to neglect endured over time. This article reports the investigations made on limestone samples from historic fa...

Sustainable Development and Green Buildings

Global sustainability goals have led to the development of the green building movement. The Green Building Program, stemming from the movement, has had unprecedented success as it provides a quantifi able metric to people’s efforts towards sustainable development. Sustainable development and green buildings are often used interchangeably. Although, sustainable development and green buildings ar...

Sustainable Environment for all.

There is growing evidence that the somewhat apocalyptic nature of the commentary on page 1 164 is being considered most seriously by the present administration in the United States and by most of the other nations in the world. John Cairns, the titular spokesperson for ecology in Environmental Health Perspectives since the inception of the monthly journal in April 1993, delivers a tough message...

Human, Environment and Sustainable Development