Overview Article - Ventilation performance analysis for buildings: an overview of methods and applications
Ventilation plays a pivotal role in delivering comfortable and healthy indoor conditions to buildings’ occupants since both thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) are affected by ventilation. This article presents an overview of the metrics and the methods used to predict ventilation performance in buildings and of relevant EU policies and initiatives addressing the topic.
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Technical Article - Indoor air quality and thermal comfort after thermal renovation. A monitored example
Monitoring data analysis shows that after a Passive House renovation, the indoor air quality is largely below 1000 ppm and the thermal comfort is improved with relatively high temperatures achieved.
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Technical Article - Arise article series ‘Digitalisation in the built environment’ #6: Stimulating the demand for skills
Understanding and achieving the sustainable benefits deriving from digitalisation is a critical step in ensuring we deliver a skills-literate workforce capable of delivering green construction.
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Technical Article - Arise article series ‘Digitalisation in the built environment’ #5 Implementation: The benefits of a digitally informed and empowered workforce
Each wave of new technology is usually heralded as a time-saving feature, leaving more time for design. This new void typically gets filled up with the protocols needed to implement these new competencies. Automating this becomes a game changer. We are on the cusp of generative architecture, where function becomes a mechanism to derive a design. Computational algorithms analyse and explore possibilities based on specific goals or constraints. Skills are needed to equip professionals to deliver paradigms and achieve their potential.
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CondoReno: enhancing condominium renovations and One-stop-shops in Europe
The EU-funded project CondoReno leads the development of Integrated Home Renovation Services (IHRS) for condominium associations interested in the implementation of energy renovations, providing support across the whole renovation journey for buildings co-owned by multiple private homeowners.
Jordi Calatayud
Technical Article – An overview of post-occupancy evaluation in educational buildings
How important is the air we breathe indoors? Logically, it is extremely important, and even more when children are involved. If we want to measure and evaluate the indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort of buildings, as well as assessing the energy efficiency, post-occupancy evaluation (POE) comes into play. How should it be implemented in schools to improve wellbeing and the building´s energy performance?
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Technical Article - Can you heat your house with district heating with a lower temperature supply? A performance assessment approach
This article presents a simulation-based approach to assess the readiness of dwellings for adopting lower-temperature heat from district heating systems as a means of gas-free heating transition.
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