This is an accommodation facility built by The Japan Steel Works on the occasion of visit Crown Prince Yoshihito to Hokkaido in 1911. It still used company as a guest house for important visitors. In this project seismic retrofit, renovation building was carried out Western-style building. There were two intentions, ① carry retrofit so that none strengthening members could be seen, and ② reuse ...

In the perspective of the Net Zero Energy Buildings as specified in the EPBD 2010/31/EU, we propose the concept and design of a modular unglazed solar thermal (UST) façade component for facilitating the installation of active solar façades. The renovation of existing buildings offers an opportunity to improve the energy efficiency when using such a system and a novel design methodology tackled ...

District heating networks are considered as convenient systems to supply heat to consumers while reducing CO2 emissions and increasing renewable energies use. However, to make them as profitable as possible, they have to be developed, operated and sized carefully. In order to cope with these objectives, simulation tools are required to analyze several configuration schemes and control methods. ...