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Evers, David Victor Harmen. "Building for consumption." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2004. http://dare.uva.nl/document/72751.

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Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam.<br>Ondertitel op omslag: An institutional analysis of peripheral shopping center development in Northwest Europe. Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

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Wong, Chun-hung Samuel. "Opportunities for building energy conservation in Hong Kong (residential buildings) /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1873439X.

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Hopeman, Lisa Maria. "Energy consumption of building 39." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40430.

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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaf 32).<br>The MIT community has embarked on an initiative to the reduce energy consumption and in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol. This thesis seeks to further expand our understanding of how the MIT campus consumes energy and with that knowledge be able to recommend methods of reducing energy consumption by minimizing and even eliminating careless energy use. The largest energy consuming building per square foot, Building 39, was selected and analyzed in d

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Cooper, David L. "An eco-profile of building materials." N.p, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Balthazar, Edward John. "Residential building energy consumption and loss reduction methods." [Huntington, WV : Marshall University Libraries], 2008. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=864.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Marshall University, 2008.<br>Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains ix, 94 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-91).

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Kubátová, Anna. "Heating of building with almost zero energy consumption." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225687.

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The aim of the thesis is to model energetic needs for heating and temperatures progress in the building with almost zero energy consumption. The part of the work is the economical and energetic comparison. Proposed systems are based on a knowledge of active houses.

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Wong, Chun-hung Samuel, and 黃俊雄. "Opportunities for building energy conservation in Hong Kong (residential buildings)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31253891.

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Lasker, Wasim Jamil A. "The impact of construction and building materials on energy consumption on Saudi residential buildings." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/3109.

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As a result of increasing population and buildings construction in Saudi Arabia, the demand for electricity is growing rapidly. There should be a greater focus on build-ings in the kingdom and several methods should be applied in order to reduce en-ergy consumption and create a lower carbon economy as residential buildings ac-count for about 70 percent of the total consumption. Saudi Arabia therefore ur-gently needs to develop residential buildings which use less energy and are more environmentally-friendly. This study investigates the recent situation of Saudi residential buildings in terms o

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Afzalan, Milad. "Building Energy Profile Clustering Based on Energy Consumption Patterns." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99317.

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With the widespread adoption of smart meters in buildings, an unprecedented amount of high- resolution energy data is released, which provides opportunities to understand building consumption patterns. Accordingly, research efforts have employed data analytics and machine learning methods for the segmentation of consumers based on their load profiles, which help utilities and energy providers for customized/personalized targeting for energy programs. However, building energy segmentation methodologies may present oversimplified representations of load shapes, which do not properly capture the

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Paudel, Subodh. "Methodology to estimate building energy consumption using artificial intelligence." Thesis, Nantes, Ecole des Mines, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EMNA0237/document.

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Les normes de construction pour des bâtiments de plus en plus économes en énergie (BBC) nécessitent une attention particulière. Ces normes reposent sur l’amélioration des performances thermiques de l’enveloppe du bâtiment associé à un effet capacitif des murs augmentant la constante de temps du bâtiment. La prévision de la demande en énergie de bâtiments BBC est plutôt complexe. Ce travail aborde cette question par la mise en œuvre d’intelligence artificielle(IA). Deux approches de mise en œuvre ont été proposées : « all data » et « relevant data ». L’approche « all data » utilise la totalité

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Herek, Steven. "Performance of Vacuum Insulation Panels in Building Energy Consumption." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1499.

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Insulation is a key aspect of the energy consumption of a building. Determining the best type of insulation to implement in a building can be difficult, especially with new technologies emerging. This paper summarizes a study of one emerging type of insulation, Vacuum Insulation Panels, and explores the applicability of Vacuum Insulation Panels as building insulation. Building energy simulations were performed using EnergyPlus (Department of Energy simulation and energy analysis program). Simulations were done to compare the absence of insulation to the use of traditional building insulati

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Armstrong, Stephen George. "Thermal evaluation of building detail." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387382.

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zhang, shan. "Study of building code and calculation of energy consumption for same building situated in two climates, Chengdu and Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Uthålliga byggnadssystem, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-169515.

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This report is aim to compared building standard of Chengdu city and Stockholm, as well as find out the suitable energy-saving scenario for two places. To simulate the total energy consumption of logistics building, energy software named design builder will be introduce to calculate. Some of other analysis will be implemented at the same time, including economic analysis, environment analysis and thermal comfort analysis.

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Kandya, Anurag Ashok. "Characterization of urban heat islands over megacity Delhi and simulating its effect on building energy consumption with mitigation strategies." Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2015. http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12345678/6667.

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Vuppuluri, Prem Kiran. "Impact of Sustainable Cool Roof Technology on Building Energy Consumption." PDXScholar, 2014. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1530.

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Highly reflective roofing systems have been analyzed over several decades to evaluate their ability to meet sustainability goals, including reducing building energy consumption and mitigating the urban heat island. Studies have isolated and evaluated the effects of climate, surface reflectivity, and roof insulation on energy savings, thermal load mitigation and also ameliorating the urban heat island. Other sustainable roofing systems, like green-roofs and solar panels have been similarly evaluated. The motivation for the present study is twofold: the first goal is to present a method for simu

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Sancheti, Pratik Paras. "Impact of COVID-19 on Building & Transportation Energy Consumption." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1631733699173269.

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Yohanis, Yigzaw Goshu. "Development of improved simplified building energy analysis." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342409.

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Kiani, Mohamad Reza. "Life cycle energy consumption associated with glass within commercial building envelopes." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479077.

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Better thermal performance of glass and glazed units together with advances in modern construction technologies has enabled designers to consider the use of higher proportions of glass in commercial building envelopes. A higher glazing percentage is typically lighter in envelope and building structure, and provides more daylight and solar heat to the interior during winter seasons. On the other hand, there is a potential of excessive solar heat gain during summer. The percentage of glass in the envelope influences the structural loads and consequently the embodied energy for the structure, fou

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Hall, Michelle Louise. "Shop local : building a 'local' tribe through consumption experiences in servicescapes." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16640/1/Michelle_Hall_Thesis.pdf.

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The notion of community remains an important concern, for individuals, in urban planning practice, and more recently in consumer research. This thesis research explores community at the junction of these areas, through a grounded study of the consumption practices of a place based consumer tribe that exists within an inner city suburb undergoing urban renewal. The process of urban renewal is positioned as a means to revitalise under-utilised inner city areas, and broaden opportunities for city residents and visitors to experience an inner city lifestyle. It can also be seen as a standardising

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Hall, Michelle Louise. "Shop local : building a 'local' tribe through consumption experiences in servicescapes." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16640/.

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The notion of community remains an important concern, for individuals, in urban planning practice, and more recently in consumer research. This thesis research explores community at the junction of these areas, through a grounded study of the consumption practices of a place based consumer tribe that exists within an inner city suburb undergoing urban renewal. The process of urban renewal is positioned as a means to revitalise under-utilised inner city areas, and broaden opportunities for city residents and visitors to experience an inner city lifestyle. It can also be seen as a standardising

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Chen, Yuyao. "Contribution of machine learning to the prediction of building energy consumption." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lyon, INSA, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023ISAL0119.

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La prédiction de la consommation énergétique des bâtiments est aujourd’hui un point-clé de la transition énergétique, qui vise à atténuer les effets du réchauffement climatique. La quantité de données disponible étant de plus en plus importante, les modèles prédictifs dits « data-driven » voient leur performances croître constamment. Parmi ces modèles, ceux issus du Machine Learning sont probablement les plus efficaces. Au sein de cette thèse, nous proposons de réaliser un état de l’art complet des contributions du Machine Learning à la la prédiction de la consommation énergétique des bâtiment

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Heiple, Shem C. "Using Building Energy Simulation and Geospatial Modeling Techniques in Determine High Resolution Building Sector Energy Consumption Profiles." PDXScholar, 2007. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3399.

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A technique is presented for estimating hourly and seasonal energy consumption profiles in the building sector at spatial scales down to the individual taxlot or parcel. The method combines annual building energy simulations for cityspecific prototypical buildings and commonly available geospatial data in a Geographical Information System (GIS) framework. Hourly results can be extracted for any day and exported as a raster output at spatial scales as fine as an individual parcel (

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Aderskog, Mikael, and Christopher Hoff. "Energi- och kostnadseffektiva klimatskal : För lager-, industri- och kontorsbyggnader." Thesis, KTH, Byggnadsteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-129517.

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A study to optimize insulation thickness for stock-, industrial- and office-buildings for external walls and roof in an economical perspective has been conducted on behalf of DynaMate. DynaMate’s role is to maintain all Scania’s buildings. Analysis has also included other parts of the building envelope, such as windows, exterior doors and industrial doors. In this thesis, three different types of exterior wall constructions has been investigated, these are a sandwich design consisting of sheet metal and a another one consisting of concrete, as well as a wall of concrete with a coating of plast

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Negrão, Cezar O. R. "Conflation of computational fluid dynamics and building thermal simulation." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1995. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21238.

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The present work is a contribution towards the integration of building simulation tools in order to better represent the complexity of the real world. It attempts to overcome certain shortfalls of contemporary simulation applications with respect to indoor air flows. As a result, the evaluation of building energy consumption and indoor air quality is expected to be improved. Advanced fluid flow models (as employed within Building Thermal Simulation - BTS - and Computational Fluid Dynamics - CFD) with different degrees of detail were investigated and their modelling deficiencies identified. The

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Ma, Daghoo. "The Role of Comparative Electricity Use Feedback at the Building Level in University Research Buildings." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23128.

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University research buildings are significant energy consumers in the United States. There is therefore a need to reduce energy use on the nation\'s campuses, not only cutting their carbon footprints but also saving money. Universities\' efforts to reduce energy use include updating older facilities, implementing renewable energy systems, and encouraging energy saving behavior. This study evaluated the differential effects of two forms of feedback on electricity consumption in two groups of research buildings on a college campus to determine whether providing feedback to energy users has an im

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Serrano, Susana. "Reduction of the energy consumption of buildings by acting in the building envelope: materials and passive construction systems." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399729.

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Les emissions de gasos d’efecte hivernacle i el consum energètic dels edificis han incrementat de forma constant durant els últims quaranta anys, representant al 2010 el 25% de les emissions totals i el 32% del consum energètic a nivell global. Les institucions internacionals preveuen que aquestes emissions poden duplicar-se o inclús triplicar-se al 2050. Un dels objectius d’aquesta tesi és estudiar el consum energètic dels edificis a Europa durant els últims vint anys i demostrar la necessitat de reduir el consum energètic dels edificis per mitigar el canvi climàtic. L'Agència Internaci

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Damron, Lauren Leigh Brannom. "An energy consumption evaluation for existing, commercial buildings." Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38228.

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Master of Science<br>Department of Architectural Engineering and Construction Science<br>Julia A. Keen<br>The intent of this report is to recommend a process for legislation that can be used to identify commercial buildings that have the greatest potential to reduce energy consumption. A point-based evaluation is completed of current energy processes for existing commercial buildings. The recommended energy evaluation system is applied to an existing building, which allows for a detailed review of how the evaluation is completed for a building. The results are presented to display the value of

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Zaidi, Syed Tabish. "Energy Modeling Existing Large University Buildings." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1561394381779396.

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Meister, Eric. "Using hard cost data on resource consumption to measure green building performance." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010531.

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Lee, Sang Hoon. "Management of building energy consumption and energy supply network on campus scale." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43580.

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Building portfolio management on campus and metropolitan scale involves decisions about energy retrofits, energy resource pooling, and investments in shared energy systems, such as district cooling, community PV and wind power, CHP systems, geothermal systems etc. There are currently no tools that help a portfolio/campus manager make these decisions by rapid comparison of variants. The research has developed an energy supply network management tool at the campus scale. The underlying network energy performance (NEP) model uses (1) an existing energy performance toolkit to quantify the energy p

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Leung, Ming. "A novel approach to determine building occupancy for cooling energy consumption prediction." Thesis, City, University of London, 2017. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17403/.

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Building cooling load prediction is one of the key elements in the energy conservation achievements. Most of the mathematical models using in the industry nowadays include forward and inverse modeling approaches. However, these models consume much computer resources and require a longer computational time. Multi-layer perceptron (MLP) model of artificial neural network (ANN) is adopted in this thesis. The model is widely used in engineering approaches that render good performance in adaptability, nonlinearity and mapping. It also has good ability in predicting the cooling energy consumption of

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Alhaj, Hasan Ola. "Optimization of building energy consumption using simplified models and new control methods." Thesis, Lille 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LIL10162/document.

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L'inquiétude croissante concernant le futur des ressources énergétique a fait de l'optimisation énergétique une priorité dans tous les secteurs. De nombreux sujets de recherche se sont focalisés sur celui du bâtiment étant le principal consommateur d'énergie, en particulier à cause de ses besoins en chauffage. Beaucoup de propositions pour réduire la consommations ont été faites. Ceux-ci vont de l'amélioration de l'isolation au changement du système de gestion du thermostat en passant par la formation des occupants à une meilleure gestion de leur bâtiment. Cette thèse propose une nouvelle méth

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Ljungqvist, Christina, Emma Lindblom, and Malin Åhgren. "What power demand does a residential building have? : A study about electricity consumption of a residential building in Knivsta." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för teknikvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225615.

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Knivsta municipality is planning a new climate-friendly and environmentally sustainable district called Nydal. The vision is to create a residential area that is minimally dependent on outside sources of electricity. The aim of this research is to evaluate the efficiency and electricity demand of a residential house in Knivsta. A model for the power demand of an apartment house has been constructed, using data for the electricity consumption of one household from Kiruna during a week in April. Data from the Swedish Energy Agency has been used to identify the distribution of electricity for th

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Cenac-Morthe, Romain. "Heating energy consumption of a multi-storey municipal residential building : Measurement methodology analysis, modeling and optimization." Thesis, KTH, Byggvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-44553.

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Energy issues in the building sector become more and more important nowadays. Although the technology improves, the energy consumption remains the same because of people’s way of living. To reduce the energy consumption, it is possible to improve the technical components that form the building envelope and to change people’s habits. This report aims at determining the best measurement methodology of the heating and hot water consumption of a building to insure real-time visualization and evaluating the energy savings that could be made by changing people habits. To do so, an existing measureme

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Pittakaras, Paris. "Zero energy buildings : theoretical investigation and applied analysis for the design of zero energy building in hot climate countries." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/zero-energy-buildings-theoretical-investigation-and-applied-analysis-for-the-design-of-zero-energy-building-in-hot-climate-countries(d3f74b5e-6bc4-4d5f-af86-9340bf87bfc4).html.

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Problem description: The buildings consume significant amounts of energy and are therefore major contributors to the overall CO2 emissions at the present time. The reduction of energy consumption in buildings is a major contribution to the overall control of global warming and to the improvement of sustainability. These reductions are essential as the world faces economic and energy crisis. An important key to the world’s energy problem is sustainable development. Taking the island of Cyprus as a case study, this thesis explores the different building categories and types, analyse building ene

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Xu, Tianyang. "Research on Building Thermal Model and Energy Consumption Estimation Based on Infrared Thermalgraphy." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.

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1. Confronto fra i componenti termici ed elettrici sulla base delle conoscenze dei circuiti elettrici. Svilluppo di modelli termici tradizionali per le finestre e le pareti, realizzando la quantizzazione della perdita di calore di un edificio. Per quanto riguarda le teorie, i dati edi risultati di ricerche esistenti relativi al tempo, materiali di costruzione, termotecnica, astronomia e meteorologia, viene proposta la metodologia sulla stima oraria dell'energia solare e della radiazione atmosferica laddove l'approssimazione matematica risulta la più adatta al problema . 2. Definizione del con

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Cao, Hetian. "Designing for Interaction and Insight: Experimental Techniques For Visualizing Building Energy Consumption Data." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2017. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/130.

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While more efficient use of energy is increasingly vital to the development of the modern industrialized world, emerging visualization tools and approaches of telling data stories provide an opportunity for the exploration of a wide range of topics related to energy consumption and conservation (Olsen, 2017). Telling energy stories using data visualization has generated great interest among journalists, designers and scientific researchers; over time it has been proven to be effective to provide knowledge and insights (Holmes, 2007). This thesis proposes a new angle of tackling the challenge o

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Sandels, Claes. "Modeling and Simulation of Electricity Consumption Profiles in the Northern European Building Stock." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Elkraftteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-184093.

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The electric power systems are currently being transformed through the integration of intermittent renewable energy resources and new types of electric loads. These developments run the risk of increasing mismatches between electricity supply and demand, and may cause non-favorable utilization rates of some power system components. Using Demand Response (DR) from flexible loads in the building stock is a promising solution to overcome these challenges for electricity market actors. However, as DR is not used at a large scale today, there are validity concerns regarding its cost-benefit and rel

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Zhao, Haixiang. "Artificial Intelligence Models for Large Scale Buildings Energy Consumption Analysis." Phd thesis, Ecole Centrale Paris, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00658767.

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The energy performance in buildings is influenced by many factors, such as ambient weather conditions, building structure and characteristics, occupancy and their behaviors, the operation of sub-level components like Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system. This complex property makes the prediction, analysis, or fault detection/diagnosis of building energy consumption very difficult to accurately and quickly perform. This thesis mainly focuses on up-to-date artificial intelligence models with the applications to solve these problems. First, we review recently developed models

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Atre, Umesh Vinayak. "Effect of daylighting on energy consumption and daylight quality in an existing elementary school." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2293.

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This research investigates the effects of daylighting in an existing elementary school in College Station, Texas. The conclusions are generalizable to similar school designs in hot and humid climates. This study focuses on the trends observed in the building??s heating, cooling, and lighting energy consumption due to daylighting, and the overall effect on total energy consumption. Skylights with 1% to 10% glazing surface to floor area and clerestories from 2 ft to 8 ft glazing height were analyzed to formulate balanced daylighting designs that could provide for decreased electricity and gas en

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Liddiard, Robert. "Characterising space use and electricity consumption in non-domestic buildings." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/6105.

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Energy used in the operation of the United Kingdom’s non-domestic buildings contributes 18% of national carbon dioxide emissions and reducing these is government policy. The use of electrical equipment in buildings is a major contributor to overall consumption, due to both its intrinsic energy consumption and the effects of incidental internal gains resulting from its operation. Knowledge of how and where consumption and internal gains occur in buildings is important in understanding the consumption characteristics of the building stock. The overall aim of this research was to improve the pred

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Meng, Yao. "Assessing the effect of new control and payment methods on heating energy consumption and occupant behaviour in Chinese dwellings." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/25749.

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Energy demand reduction has become a global issue involving all countries, including China. As major energy consumers in today s society, the need for buildings to be built and operated more energy efficiently is well recognized. In 1995, the national standard on building energy efficiency in China (JGJ 26-95) was refined and updated to become the new residential Buildings standard (JGJ 26-2010) published in 2010. In the new version, many changes have been made to support the construction of more energy efficient buildings in China. For example, in the new standard, all buildings are highly re

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Kubulenso, Saga, and Gisela Norman. "Energy efficiency in apartment buildings : A study in how energy consumption in apartment buildings have changed in recent years." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-210734.

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This report covers the development in energy efficiency regarding apartment buildings inSweden. The purpose was to investigate the energy efficiency measures done in the last 20 years. The chosen subjects were heat supply, domestic hot water, insulation, windows and ventilation. Each subject was thoroughly investigated. Regulations were compared to measures taken. The chosen subjects have been examined regarding energy efficiency. However, the largerchanges in each area happened as a result of the oil crisis in the 1970’s. The measures done inthe last 20 years mainly focuses on the behaviour o

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Simmons, Brian Spencer. "Lowest cost building technology selection for energy efficient design." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45941.

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The thesis project explores the use of an optimization methodology for selecting the lowest monetary cost combinations of technologies to meet a set operational energy efficiency targets for buildings. The optimization approach, which is operated on a normative energy model, is compared with existing prescriptive methodologies for selecting technology combinations and a metric is developed for ranking their effectiveness; the E/C Ratio. The energy savings/ cost ratio is also the objective function that the optimization algorithm is set to maximize. The optimization routine is coded in to a cus

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Weigel, Brent Anthony. "Development of a commercial building/site evaluation framework for minimizing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of transportation and building systems." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44735.

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In urbanized areas, building and transportation systems generally comprise the majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption. Realization of global environmental sustainability depends upon efficiency improvements of building and transportation systems in the built environment. The selection of efficient buildings and locations can help to improve the efficient utilization of transportation and building systems. Green building design and rating frameworks provide some guidance and incentive for the development of more efficient building and transportation systems. However,

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Isenhour, Cindy. "BUILDING SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE AGE OF HIGH CONSUMPTION." UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/1.

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This dissertation is an attempt to examine how humans in wealthy, post-industrial urban contexts understand sustainability and respond to their concerns given their sphere of influence. I focus specifically on sustainable consumption policy and practice in Sweden, where concerns for sustainability and consumer-based responses are strong. This case raises interesting questions about the relative strength of sustainability movements in different cultural and geo-political contexts as well as the specific factors that have motivated the movement toward sustainable living in Sweden. The data prese

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Day, Antony R. "An investigation into the estimation and weather normalisation of energy consumption in buildings using degree-days." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298021.

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Weber, Tim. "Low-energy houses - visions and reality : a statistical survey on the real energy consumption in 400 Swedish and German houses." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Byggvetenskap, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1493.

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Chaneac, Jean. "Integrated analysis of bioclimatic building design in three climate zones in France." Thesis, KTH, Byggvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-103089.

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ABSTRACT At a time where the planet is facing one of its major global crises, re-thinking of systems in every sector is needed. In the field of energy at its global meaning, various ways of action are considered. In this context, housing sector represents a key point of new conception of our society. Nowadays buildings are no longer considered only as designed housing "objects". Comfort, consumption, environmental impacts are part of the words which appear utterly linked to every single building. Thermal behaviour tends to be as much important as architectural and structural concerns. Indeed,

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Košútová, Katarína. "Energy assessment of building for education." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225438.

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Diploma thesis deals with analysis of internal microclima of the building , evaluation of its thermal and technical properties and it also deals with its energy comsumption. With using simuation programm, there was designed solutions which will lead not only to lowering of energy consumption but also to improvemnt of komfort for students and tachers.

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