The objective of this study was to assess the potential effects climate change on moisture performance and durability massive timber walls basis results derived from hygrothermal simulations. One-dimensional simulations were run using DELPHIN 5.9.4 for 31 consecutive years 15 realizations modeled historical (1986–2016) future (2062–2092) climates five cities located across Canada. For all citie...

Abstract It often does not occur to us that there is a space or point in the construction of house residence has potential develop new and renewable energy sources (EBT) produce additional electrical energy. The position window canopies building walls place solar panels (PV) according canopy design without requiring installation costs. This known as passive advantage it easier maintain compared...

The minimization of life cycle costs for building materials and operational energy consumption of a reference commercial office building model is achieved through the optimization of envelope design parameters by the use of integrated energy simulation and multi-dimensional numerical optimization techniques. The whole-building energy simulation program EnergyPlus v6.0 is coupled with GenOpt v3....

Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) offer an aesthetical, economical and technical solution to integrate solar cells harvesting solar radiation to produce electricity within the climate envelopes of buildings. Photovoltaic (PV) cells may be mounted above or onto the existing or traditional roofing or wall systems. However, BIPV systems replace the outer building envelope skin, i.e., the cl...

Abstract The increase of energy utilization reinforced the need reducing primary consumption based on fossil fuels and limitation carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions to atmosphere. Such goals aim at provision affordable generally clean for citizens. However, final decision making is hard be achieved, due not only multitude variety such proposed technologies, but also consideration different criter...