Minimizing environmental impacts over a building's life cycle is critical to achieving sustainable communities. Early design the most step improve construction's sustainability, as majority of important decisions have not yet been made. However, implementation sustainability assessment in early data- and effort-intensive, resulting limited whole building assessments. Previous studies mainly foc...

Space heating accounts for a large part of building energy consumption. Lowering the temperature set-point (Tsp) is expected to be feasible approach efficiency. In this paper, eight globally typical cities are selected, and energy-saving mechanism variation trends lowering Tsp investigated under different working conditions (climate conditions, construction completion year inner heat sources). ...

We demonstrate broadband frequency comb generation in the mid-infrared (MIR) from 2.3 to 3.5 μm in a Si(3)N(4) microresonator. We engineer the dispersion of the structure in the MIR using a Sellmeier equation we derive from experimental measurements performed on Si(3)N(4) films from the UV to the IR. We use deposition-anneal cycling to decrease absorption losses due to vibrational transitions i...