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Applied Research of the Hygrothermal Behaviour of an Internally Insulated Historic Wall without Vapour Barrier: In Situ Measurements and Dynamic Simulations
(2020)The hygrothermal behaviour of an internally insulated historic wall is still hard to predict, mainly because the physical characteristics of the materials composing the historic wall are unknown. In this study, the ... -
Full-scale measurement and validated simulation of cooling load reduction due to nighttime natural ventilation of a large atrium
(2020)In buildings with exposed internal thermal mass, natural ventilation (NV) can be used for nighttime pre-cooling (NVC) of the building for the next day. In many cases, these natural cooling systems are used in combination ... -
Multi-Objective Optimization Model EPLANopt for Energy Transition Analysis and Comparison with Climate-Change Scenarios
(2020)The modeling of energy systems with high penetration of renewables is becoming more relevant due to environmental and security issues. Researchers need to support policy makers in the development of energy policies through ... -
Analysis of the Building Smart Readiness Indicator Calculation: A Comparative Case-Study with Two Panels of Experts
(2020)The last release of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2018/844/EU stated that smart buildings will play a crucial role in the future energy systems. Consequently, the Directive introduced the Smart Readiness ... -
Development of a new dynamic test procedure for the laboratory characterization of a whole heating and cooling system
(2017)The performance of heating and cooling systems are affected by their dynamic operating conditions. As a consequence, a sound evaluation of system performance should be done through a dynamic test procedure. However, the ... -
Italian protocol for massive solar integration: Imbalance mitigation strategies
(2020)This article proposes two strategies for the mitigation of power imbalances and related costs resulting from increasing PV penetration onto the Italian grid. New “state of the art” solar and netload day ahead forecast ... -
New method for the early design of BIPV with electric storage: a case study in northern Italy
(2019)This paper presents a new method for the planning of photovoltaic systems in the early architectural design. The method finds capacity and position of a photovoltaic system over the envelope of a building by means of ... -
Urban climate change mitigation and adaptation planning: Are Italian cities ready?
(2019)Climate Action Planning is one of the top priorities of cities in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthening climate-resilience, as pointed out by the New Urban Agenda and the Paris Agreement. This study ... -
Transforming a residential building cluster into electricity prosumers in Sweden: Optimal design of a coupled PV-heat pump-thermal storage-electric vehicle system
(2019)Smart grid is triggering the transformation of traditional electricity consumers into electricity prosumers. This paper reports a case study of transforming an existing residential cluster in Sweden into electricity ... -
Measuring the price premium of energy efficiency: A two-step analysis in the Italian housing market
(2020)Decarbonizing the building sector by means of the smart interconnection of increasingly efficient buildings is one of the European Union's goals in order to meet its climate and energy targets and a milestone in delivering ... -
Bottom-up building stock retrofit based on levelized cost of saved energy
(2020)Policy makers need scientific support to set ambitious yet realistic environmental targets for the transition to energy efficient buildings and to develop cost-effective policies to meet these targets, but comprehensive, ... -
Modelling and simulation-based analysis of a façade-integrated decentralized ventilation unit
(2020)This article presents a performance study of a façade-integrated decentralized mechanical ventilation unit and aims to assess the potential of this solution to reduce the HVAC energy consumption in perimetral office areas. ... -
Dynamic thermal and hygrometric simulation of historical buildings: critical factors and possible solutions
(2020)Building dynamic simulation tools, traditionally used to study the hygrothermal performance of new buildings during the preliminary design steps, have been recently adopted also in historical buildings, as a tool to ... -
Direct characterisation of the annual performance of solar thermal and heat pump systems using a six-day whole system test
(2020)Systems that provide space heating and domestic hot water are characterized by dynamic operating conditions. For a reliable evaluation of the general system performance, dynamic system test procedures are a more reliable, ... -
Analysis of photovoltaic performance loss rates of six module types in five geographical locations
(2019)In this paper, the annual performance loss rates (PLRs) of five different grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) technologies based on outdoor field measurements were computed. The data used were collected in five different ... -
A bottom-up spatially explicit methodology to estimate the space heating demand of the building stock at regional scale
(2020)The paper presents a spatially explicit and “bottom-up” methodology for the building stock analysis of the residential sector. It integrates different input data in a Geographical Information System (GIS), without using ... -
Database of energy, environmental and economic indicators of renovation packages for European residential buildings
(2019)Increasing the energy efficiency with a vast impact in the residential building stock requires retrofit solutions that can be exploited with respect to a wide range of different building typologies and climates. Several ... -
A cross-country perspective on solar energy in urban planning: Lessons learned from international case studies
(2019)This work, framed in the IEA SHC Task 51 “Solar Energy in Urban Planning”, presents an illustrative perspective of solar energy in urban planning through the analysis of 34 international case studies conducted in 10 ... -
People’s decisions matter: understanding and addressing energy poverty with behavioral economics
(2019)Insufficient access to affordable, safe and reliable energy services deprives individuals of the essential means to live a good, satisfactory and just life. This problem is becoming more and more urgent in urban areas, in ... -
Acoustic design criteria in naturally ventilated residential buildings: new research perspectives by applying the indoor soundscape approach
(2019)The indoor-outdoor connection provided by ventilation openings has been so far a limiting factor in the use of natural ventilation (NV), due to the apparent conflict between ventilation needs and the intrusion of external ...
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