Abstract Digitalization is sweeping the world of buildings. Notably, use machine and deep learning techniques to develop buildings’ digital twins becoming crucial foster energy transition construction sector a sustainable urban growth. Digital can ensure user-friendly, fast reliable prediction building loads demands, thereby enabling comprehensive optimization planning, design operation. Accord...

Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate the optimization of an existing residential building in a tropical climate using indigenous materials as alternative conventional envelopes achieve thermal comfort and affordable housing. Design/methodology/approach study mainly adopted quantitative research methodology through comprehensive simulation on selected prototype building. The energy plus tool D...

Abstract Buildings’ carbon emissions consist of embodied (EC) associated with the production and transportation materials operational (OC) generated from consumed energy during daily use. However, previous studies concentrated on either EC or OC but ignored an integrated analysis their relationships. Therefore, this paper aims to explore appropriate building envelope design solutions by examini...

To design energy efficient buildings using an optimal combination of passive design strategies it is necessary to understand the particular climate designed for. To use energy simulation software such as EnergyPlus TM , Ecotect TM or DesignBuilder TM to calculate building energy consumption or undertake a predictive thermal simulation of naturally ventilated buildings requires a detailed set of...

Binalarda enerjinin önemli bir kısmı ısıtma ve soğutma için kullanılmaktadır. Avrupa direktifi (EPBD-Recast) bu enerji kullanımından kaynaklı olumsuz çevresel etkileri azaltmak amacıyla, daha yüksek ısı yalıtımı seviyelerini hafif binaları teşvik etmektedir. Hafif binaların en büyük dezavantajı ise düşük termal kütleleridir. Son yıllarda kütlelerini artırarak tasarrufu sağlayan enerjiyi kütlede...

The Campania Region has one of the highest renewable energy potentials in Italy. Despite this high potential, lack an integrated strategy allowed for deregulated exploitation resources territory, e.g. surplus wind occurs due to large farms, geothermal is mainly used thermal baths but its enthalpy could meet domestic heating demand, etc. A “integrated planning”, does not make best use and contri...

Based on recent developments and the predicted future advancement of lighting technologies, researchers are now questioning extent to which daylight is effective in lowering overall energy consumption buildings. As light-emitting diode (LED) luminaires highly efficient, amount power consumed for purposes can be reduced, even situations where system at its full power. It has already been demonst...

This paper investigates the configuration of solar thermal collector driven organic Rankine cycle (ORC) utilized to power air-conditioning system two-story office building in Paralimni, Cyprus, through a Variable-Refrigerant-Flow (VRF) system. The reason choose this Mediterranean climate is due its higher dependency on fossil fuels compared many other countries EU and with high potential harnes...