2013
DOI: 10.3390/en6126525
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Evaluation of Green Buildings’ Overall Performance through in Situ Monitoring and Simulations

Abstract: Abstract:The evaluation of the overall performance of a green building is complex, since many construction, energy and environmental aspects have to be considered. The Umbria Region in Italy, through various public tenders, recently funded several residential buildings, innovative in terms of construction quality, green technologies and sustainable solutions, such as natural building materials, integrated sunspaces, PV (photovoltaic) modules and solar collectors, geothermal heat pumps, that had to be adopted t… Show more

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“…The change of urban energy budget determined by a low albedo and the reduced evapotranspiration cause a higher urban energy input in the daytime [8]. Such excess of energy is usually stored: the thermal properties (e.g., heat capacity, thermal conductivity) of the materials used in the cities and the complex and traditional urban morphology increase the heat flux stored in these areas [9][10][11][12][13]. The surfaces start releasing the stored energy during the night [8], slowing down the cooling process in the cities and determining a temperature difference between urban and rural areas.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The change of urban energy budget determined by a low albedo and the reduced evapotranspiration cause a higher urban energy input in the daytime [8]. Such excess of energy is usually stored: the thermal properties (e.g., heat capacity, thermal conductivity) of the materials used in the cities and the complex and traditional urban morphology increase the heat flux stored in these areas [9][10][11][12][13]. The surfaces start releasing the stored energy during the night [8], slowing down the cooling process in the cities and determining a temperature difference between urban and rural areas.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All the thermal characteristics of the building envelope and the outdoor and indoor climate conditions were available in each dwelling for at least one week [27]. Based on these data sets, a Multilayer feed forward Network was trained in order to simulate the thermal performance of buildings envelope and to test new glazing solutions [6,[24][25][26].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the Umbria Region, several residential buildings were built with innovative materials and with new construction technologies including green technologies and sustainable solutions, such as natural building materials [27], due to specific regulations developed in order to reduce energy consumption.…”
Section: Experimental Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Applications of the Italian EPC can be found in [26][27][28][29][30]. Fantozzi et al [26] evaluated the energy demand of two new residential building in Tuscany (Italy) testing different labelling criteria suggested by European standards and Italian local administrations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%