At present, the integration of green building, intelligent building industry and high-quality development are facing a series new opportunities challenges. This review aims to analyze digital smart buildings make it easier create contiguous ecological areas in cities. It sorts out main contents Intelligent Green Buildings (IGB) summarizes application role Digital Twins (DTs) buildings. Firstly,...

We have designed and implemented a platform that enables monitoring and actuation in multiple buildings, that has been utilised in the context of a research project in Greece, focusing on public school buildings. The Green Mindset project has installed IoT devices in 12 Greek public schools to monitor energy consumption, along with indoor and outdoor environmental parameters. We present the arc...

This paper is concerned with morphological change analysis in the old foreign concessions of Shanghai from 1969 to 2010. To that end, we use a series of 17 Landsat TM and Landsat ETM + images on which we estimate some feature parameters. The analysis of the resulting time series enables to isolate changes from traditional constructions to new buildings or gardens. Our results show that 70 % of ...

Energy consumption in residential buildings is one of the major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. Most of the efforts to minimize these emissions contemplate on construction of new high performance green buildings rather than retrofitting the existing residential building stock, which has the greatest emission reduction potential. In this paper, rapidly increasing GHG emissi...

Green infrastructure, that is, wet weather management approaches and technologies that infiltrate, evapotranspire, capture, and reuse stormwater to maintain or restore natural hydrologies, can affect temperature in different aspects of the urban environment. Restoration of natural landscape features and local installations of rain gardens, green roofs, green walls, infiltration planters, permea...