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Buildings, Volume 6, Issue 4

2016 December - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,237 Views
14 Pages

Side-View Atmospheres under Outdoor Midday High Luminance

  • Urtza Uriarte,
  • Rufino J. Hernández,
  • Joan L. Zamora and
  • Antonio Isalgue

20 December 2016

This work deals with daylighting for indoor quality atmospheres, considering building skins and side-views. We also tested the vision perception provided by highly glazed façades. Several Spanish restaurants were analyzed, and two were assessed and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,201 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2016

Over the last few decades many bibliographical studies have been conducted on cool roofs, by analyzing both the energy performance during summer and winter seasons and their contribution in mitigating the urban heat island effect. This paper describe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,233 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2016

A central contemporary societal discussion in Denmark concerns settlements that have poor connectivity and are geographically distant to main towns and cities. These settlements are called “outskirts.” Historically significant villages in these outsk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,752 Views
15 Pages

Optimized Load Shedding Approach for Grid-Connected DC Microgrid Systems under Realistic Constraints

  • Leonardo Trigueiro dos Santos,
  • Manuela Sechilariu and
  • Fabrice Locment

9 December 2016

The microgrid system is an answer to the necessity of increasing renewable energy penetration and also works as a bridge for the future smart grid. Considering the microgrid system applied to commercial building equipped with photovoltaic sources, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,545 Views
18 Pages

Three-Dimensional Heat Transfer Analysis of Metal Fasteners in Roofing Assemblies

  • Manan Singh,
  • Rupesh Gulati,
  • Ravi S. Srinivasan and
  • Mahabir Bhandari

29 November 2016

Heat transfer analysis was performed on typical roofing assemblies using HEAT3, a three-dimensional heat transfer analysis software. The difference in heat transferred through the roofing assemblies considered is compared between two cases—without an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
18,873 Views
28 Pages

Review: Improving the Impact of Plant Science on Urban Planning and Design

  • Peter C. Wootton-Beard,
  • Yangang Xing,
  • Raghavalu Thirumalai Durai Prabhakaran,
  • Paul Robson,
  • Maurice Bosch,
  • Judith M. Thornton,
  • Graham A. Ormondroyd,
  • Phil Jones and
  • Iain Donnison

16 November 2016

Urban planning is a vital process in determining the functionality of future cities. It is predicted that at least two thirds of the world’s citizens will reside in towns and cities by the middle of this century, up from one third in the middle of th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
14,093 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2016

This study identified two alternative but potentially simultaneous processes for rural development in China. One is the ‘bottom-up’ approach where individuals and groups of villagers work innovatively in developing new building construction opportuni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,346 Views
15 Pages

1 November 2016

Buildings are the key components of urban areas and society as a complex system. A life cycle assessment was applied to estimate the environmental impacts of the resources applied in the building envelope, floor slabs, and interior walls of the Vætta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
12,789 Views
12 Pages

Post-Occupancy Evaluation Data Support for Planning and Management of Building Maintenance Plans

  • Nelson Bento Pereira,
  • Rui Calejo Rodrigues and
  • Patrícia Fernandes Rocha

21 October 2016

The purpose of this paper is to propose a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) method focused on building maintenance and then to test it on two different sets of residential buildings. The paper’s three main goals are: to obtain useful data for optimizin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,765 Views
9 Pages

Design, Production, and Installation of Wooden Walls for the Japan Pavilion at Expo 2015

  • Matteo Cipollini,
  • Elisa Bonannini,
  • Marco Cinotti and
  • Mauro Sassu

18 October 2016

This article illustrates the production process, the structural calculations and the assembly phases of the wooden walls of the Japan Pavilion at Expo 2015 in Milan, designed by Atsushi Kitagawara Architects (AKA). The pavilion, one of the most popul...

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