Climate change impacts particularly affect vulnerable populations such as children. Therefore, addressing the adaptation of educational buildings is crucial in avoiding these negative effects on school performance. In this paper, three educational buildings, located in Badajoz (Spain), Evora (Portugal) and Porto (Portugal), serve as pilot samples to study the suitability of nature-based solutions (NBS), chosen for each one of three climatic zones. The NBS selected include green roofs, vertical structures with vegetation to shade holes, outdoor trees and free-cooling ventilation. The scenarios of the different NBS implemented in the three models were simulated with the software EnergyPlus, which allows optimising the appropriate decision before renovation operations begin. The results obtained from the simulations suggest energy performance improvements after applying the most adequate NBS selection to each one of the three buildings tested. Particularly, a reduction in radiation on both roofs and facades is required in the case of Evora and Badajoz, where both climate zones have similar features, that is, warm and dry. While in Porto, milder and more humid than the former ones, it is very effective to operate mainly on the roof, complemented by small ventilation operations.
This article, relying on Bakhtin's approach to canonization, demonstrates an empirical link between language and ideology. The authors employ content and discourse analysis to examine political discourse exemplified in editorial writing as a particular speech genre. They scrutinize editorials in four newspapers published in Catalonia, two of them in Castilian and two in Catalan. Despite political differences between the papers in each language, the authors discern a Catalan‐language discourse style that differs significantly from the Caslilian‐language discourse style. They conclude that the historically canonized discourse styles, different in Catalonia's Castilian and Catalan press, reflect the intimate relationship between language of use and ideology.
Climate change impacts particularly affect vulnerable populations such as children. Therefore, it is necessary to address the adaptation of educational buildings to prevent their negative impact on school performance and to increase their resilience. This study is part of an ongoing project, LIFE myBUILDINGisGREEN (LIFE17 CCA/ES/000088), which aims to optimise learning conditions in schools in southern Europe affected by heat waves during warmer months. This first part of the project focuses on predicting the impact of nature-based solutions (NBS) implementation. The main concern of this stage is to analyse the benefits on both interior comfort and energy efficiency. This paper presents the results of the influence on space cooling demand via dynamic building simulations after successively applying the different NBS. Further improvements in indoor environmental conditions such as CO2 concentration reductions will be evaluated later. For this purpose, a demonstration building, located in southern Spain, characterized in terms of thermophysical parameters of the envelope and air infiltrations was selected. The energy model was calibrated with actual monitoring data. Different scenarios have been analysed through an energy prediction software, leading to a wide range of outcomes in terms of improvements in both energy demand-assuming a cooling system-and temperature reduction.
RESUMENSe publican a continuación los trabajos presentados para el Concurso de Ideas -INVISO 2008, convocado por el Proyecto Singular y Estratégico "OPtIMIzaCIóN dE La PROdUCCIóN dE VIVIENdaS. -Industrialización de viviendas sostenibles-INVISO-. Este proyecto tiene por objetivos promocionar la industrialización de la vivienda dentro del marco de la sostenibilidad de la construcción.El 28 de abril de 2008, se presentaron 24 trabajos de los cuales se escogieron los dos primeros premios, se otorgó una mención y quedaron dos finalistas. El jurado, compuesto por especialistas en el tema de la industrialización y de la vivienda, consideró oportuno la publicación y difusión de estos trabajos premiados. SUMMARY OPTIMIZACIÓN DE LA PRODUCCIÓN DE VIVIENDAS. Industrialización de viviendas sostenibles INVISOCon el objeto de recoger ideas relacionadas con los objetivos del proyecto INVISO, el Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo torroja (IEtcc-CSIC) como coordinador científico de este proyecto, planteó un CONCURSO dE IdEaS entre los profesionales de la edificación.Este concurso tuvo por objeto proponer soluciones que pudieran estar relacionadas con alguno de los aspectos de la promoción, el diseño y la ejecución de viviendas, que faciliten la industrialización de su proceso constructivo, y que incorporen la consideración y el fomento de su sostenibilidad, desde su producción hasta su uso e, incluso, deconstrucción. Los dos temas fundamentales que están presentes en el proyecto INVISO son INdUStRIaLIzaCIóN Y SOStENIBILIdad de viviendas.La industrialización entendida, a los efectos de este concurso, como una aproximación a la producción industrial habitual en otros sectores productivos, pero en forma acorde con las singularidades propias de la vivienda como producto prácticamente singular y condicionante en la vida de las personas y de las familias.La sostenibilidad, por su parte, que se ocupa, tanto de los materiales y productos que se empleen para la ejecución de las viviendas, como del proceso de ejecución, uso y mantenimiento, facilitando la consecución del menor consumo de materiales y energía, el máximo confort, así como su posible recuperación total o parcial mediante procedimientos de desmontaje ("deconstrucción").
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