Optimizing the transition between design and operation of ZEBs: Lessons learnt from the Solar Decathlon China 2018 SCUTxPoliTo prototype

Ferrara, Maria; Lisciandrello, Ciro; Messina, Alessio; Berta, Mauro; Zhang, Yufeng; Fabrizio, Enrico

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109824

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“…The contest allows universities and businesses to develop and test initiatives related to human dwelling spaces, from energy optimisation through the use of different high-efficiency systems and passive design [ 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 ], to the analysis of construction elements employed in every solution [ 53 , 54 , 55 ], as well as using different home automation tools or studying the comfort conditions of the dwelling [ 56 ], and, as a result, their effect on the health of the user ( Figure 1 ).…”

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Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Millán-Jiménez

Herrera-Limones

López-Escamilla

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The COVID-19 pandemic forced the population worldwide into lockdown. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of this measure on the health and comfort of university students and the role that the characteristics of the home may have played. It is essential to differentiate between the terms comfort and health both from the medical and architectural perspectives, as there are differences between the two concepts that are, nonetheless, shared by both disciplines. An online survey was fulfilled by 188 medicine and architecture undergraduate students at the University of Seville, Spain. In terms of health, 89% suffered neuropsychiatric disorders (56% anxiety and 49% depression), 38% gained weight and 59% reported alcohol consumption. In relation to comfort, the majority rated their home positively, comfortable in terms of room temperature and noise at night, and they had a good relationship with cohabitants. However, those who did not have a balcony or terrace would have liked to have open spaces They would have also liked to increase the size of their bedroom, where they spent most of their time and where they studied. A built-up environment gave them a sense of being imprisoned, while those who enjoyed open spaces found a sense of peace. The absence of open spaces in the house, the environment and the impossibility of making the most frequently used spaces more flexible may have had negative impacts on the health and comfort of university students during confinement.

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Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Millán-Jiménez

Herrera-Limones

López-Escamilla

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…Actualmente, se procede a analizar la viabilidad técnica y económica de los ZEB mediante simulación paramétrica (Ferrara et al, 2020). Esta herramienta resulta valiosa para el diseñador, ya que permite plantear sugerencias de baja energía y optimizar el modelo en el proceso de diseño de manera temprana y holística (Lobaccaro et al, 2018).…”

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10 preguntas de los edificios energía cero: revisión del estado del arte

D'Amanzo¹,

Mercado

Ganem

2020

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Zero Energy Buildings (ZEB) promote a comprehensive view of sustainable architecture and a profound change in the way to build. Research and development in energy transition must necessarily face technological and socio-economic issues. In that line, the goal here is to offer a response to minimize the building sector’s energy and environmental impact. To this end, a review of the state of the art of the subject was carried out, where 97 scientific articles from a period comprising 2006 to 2020, considered the most pertinent, were selected. The methodology consisted of analyzing these texts based on ten questions formulated to address the subject: their origins, current status and future projections regarding energy efficiency and sustainability. The questions refer to definitions (Q1), sustainability (Q2), technologies involved (Q3), emissions (Q5), energy (Q4) (Q6) (Q7), regulations (Q8), climate change (Q9), and future projections (Q10). The work allows concluding that ZEB are integrated in a holistic way in the transformation towards a renewable and sustainable future in terms of energy solutions and, in turn, they have the potential to be implemented in different geographical and climatic positions.

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“…Also, in order to examine the energy performance of the building, various functional goals such as thermal demand [16], lighting demand [17], and ventilation demand [18] should be examined. Also, for optimizationbased calibration, genetic algorithm (GA) [19,20], particle swarm optimization (PSO) [21,22] and the Hooke and Jeeves (HJ) algorithm [23,24], are the most widely used algorithms.…”

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Optimization of Residential Spatial Configuration based on Energy Performance, Daylight Brightness, and Thermal Comfort through Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm, Case Study: Mashhad City Climate

Ahmadi¹,

Maddahi²,

Mirzaei³

2023

IJEE

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All important decisions that affect the thermal performance of the building are made in the early stages of design. Accordingly, in this research, the initial stage of architectural design which is related to space plan was targeted. The aim of this research is the perfect approach to evaluate, and optimize the energy a set of alternative spatial layout solutions through the functional computational design model. The method of this research includes the production of coherent design solutions and the evaluation and optimization of the energy performance of the selected solutions. In the first part, space allocation at a level produces the plan through an evolutionary technique. In the next step, certain plans were evaluated for energy performance, performance rank, and optimization. The energy simulation tool is Honeybee and Ladybug plugins,. The optimization tool is Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm in the Octopus plugin. The reproduction rate, the mutation rate and the possibility of mutation were 0.9, 0.8 and 0.2, respectively. The results showed that each algorithm is a suitable tool for design solutions, thermal performance of floor plans, helping architects' perspective in the decision-making process, and speeding up the design process. Finally, based on the optimization, the final result of the research algorithm is 70 elite answers in the Pareto front. Only during the Pareto front optimal responses, energy consumption can be reduced by more than 30%; in daylight time and more than 39% improvement was achieved.

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Optimizing the transition between design and operation of ZEBs: Lessons learnt from the Solar Decathlon China 2018 SCUTxPoliTo prototype

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Confinement, Comfort and Health: Analysis of the Real Influence of Lockdown on University Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

10 preguntas de los edificios energía cero: revisión del estado del arte

Optimization of Residential Spatial Configuration based on Energy Performance, Daylight Brightness, and Thermal Comfort through Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm, Case Study: Mashhad City Climate

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