Multizone modeling of strategies to reduce the spread of airborne infectious...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 Control of airborne infectious agents in hospitals is critical both to effective healthcare and to the control of direct...
View ArticleEvaluation of a microclimate model for predicting the thermal behavior of...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 The microclimate model ENVI-met Version 4 was evaluated with field data in terms of the thermal behavior of different...
View ArticleApplication of life-cycle assessment to early stage building design for...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 Decisions made during a building's early design stages critically determine its environmental impact. However, designers...
View ArticleRisk based lifetime costs assessment of a ground source heat pump (GSHP)...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 Space heating accounts for a large portion of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHPs) are a...
View ArticleOptical and thermal characterisation of cool asphalts to mitigate urban...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is defined as the increase of the urban air temperature compared to surrounding rural...
View ArticleLiquid-filled solar glazing design for buoyant water-flow
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 A water-flow window was constructed at the front wall of an environmentally controlled test cell to monitor its...
View ArticleAssessment of the air change rate of airtight buildings under natural...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 Under natural conditions, air change rates are very sensitive to specific building elements and to climate conditions,...
View ArticleEnergetic and hygrothermal analysis of a nano-structured material for...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 Three mesoporous silica materials were selected as coatings to provide humidity buffering in retrofitted ‘closed’...
View ArticleCombined wind tunnel and CFD analysis for indoor airflow prediction of...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 This study presents a method for predicting wind-induced cross ventilation using wind tunnel testing coupled with...
View ArticleHygrothermal behaviour of flat cool and standard roofs on residential and...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 Installing roofs with high solar reflectance and high thermal emittance, known as “Cool roofs,” are becoming increasingly...
View ArticleTemperature and humidity profiles in passive-house building blocks
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 In recent decades many studies have focused on the thermal performance of massive and lightweight constructions of...
View ArticleMeasurements of water penetration and leakage in masonry wall: Experimental...
March 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 61 The investigation of moisture transfer in building materials is of great importance for the characterization of...
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CFD evaluation of natural ventilation of indoor environments by the...
March 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 61 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations can be used to assess indoor natural ventilation by solving the interaction...
View ArticleA study about the demand for air movement in warm environment
March 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 61 As the main regulation tool of indoor thermal environment in warm seasons, air-conditioners are used to keep a cool...
View ArticleIntegrated moisture (including condensation) – energy – airflow model within...
Available online 2 January 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment Indoor air humidity is an important factor influencing air quality, human comfort, energy consumption of buildings...
View ArticleA combined energy and IAQ assessment of the potential value of commissioning...
February 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 60 Limited data suggest that whole-house ventilation systems in California don't always perform as code and forecasts...
View ArticleNew ventilation index for evaluating imperfect mixing conditions – Analysis...
March 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 61 The concentration of contaminant in a room is not always uniformly distributed and hence it is important to evaluate the...
View ArticleThe potential of building envelope greening to achieve quietness
March 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment, Volume 61 Reduction of noise is one of the multiple benefits of building envelope greening measures. The potential of wall vegetation...
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CFD simulation of micro-scale pollutant dispersion in the built environment
Available online 4 January 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment Graphical abstract Highlights ► Outdoor air quality is one of the major environmental problems today. ► Micro-scale...
View ArticleImprovement in the Applicability of the Air Tightness Measurement Using a...
Available online 5 January 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Building and Environment Air tightness is an important parameter for both smoke suppression in a fire and for the energy efficiency of...
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