The key role of the building envelope in attaining building energy efficiency and satisfactory indoor comfort has long been established. Nevertheless, until recent times, all efforts and attention have mainly been focused on increasing and optimizing the thermal insulation of the envelope components. This strategy was a winning approach for a long time, but its limitations became obvious when u...

Carbon-neutral strategies have become the focus of international attention, and many countries around world adopted building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technologies to achieve low-carbon building operation by utilizing power-generating materials generate energy in buildings. The purpose this study is review basic status development China, identify analyze existing problems challenges, propo...

Buildings are the focus of European (EU) policies aimed at a sustainable and competitive low-carbon economy by 2020. Reducing energy consumption of existing buildings and achieving nearly zero energy buildings (NZEBs) are the core of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and the recast of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD). To comply with these requirements, Member States have ...

Within the framework of sustainable development and carbon-neutrality, building sector is a key target national energy strategy towards zero-carbon economy in Morocco. This article comes response to this need by assessing performance solar-powered low-embodied-carbon semi-arid climate Benguerir-Morocco, which refers fifth climatic zone thermal regulation for constructions Morocco (RTCM). To do ...

Building energy modeling (BEM) is used to support (nearly) zero-energy building (ZEB) projects, since this kind of software represents the only available option forecast consumption with high accuracy. BEM may also be during preliminary analyses or feasibility studies, but simulation results are usually too detailed for stage project. Aside from that, when optimization algorithms used, implied ...