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...

Anthropogenic heat fluxes from buildings (QF,B) are a major source of additional heating in cities, but vary both spatially and temporally. Knowledge temporal variations QF,B is critical to modulate urban climate through appropriate building design. Based on new method determine [1], this study investigates the influences envelope design parameters magnitude diurnal pattern by season parametric...

The challenge of developing adaptive, responsive low-energy architecture requires new knowledge about the complex and dynamic interaction between envelope architecture, optimization between competing environmental performance metrics (light, heat and wind indices) and local climate variables. Advances in modeling the geometry of building envelopes and control technologies for adaptive buildings...

A good designing of the building represents an important factor for the energy economics. The windows represent one of the important elements in the designing of a building envelope. The window’s thermal performances have also a strong influence on the thermal performance of the opaque area of the wall. This fact imposed knowing the way of real interaction, of co-operation and of mutual influen...

Occupants’ interaction with the building envelope systems may provide a comfortable indoor environment and lead to a better energy performance of the building. Through questionnaire survey, this study investigates occupant’s pattern of use of windows, shading and air conditioning in Greek residences (mostly apartments) during summer. Results suggest that Greek occupants significantly interact w...