The historical evolution of the energy efficient buildings

Ionescu, Constantin; Baracu, Tudor; Vlad, Gabriela-Elena; Necula, Horia; Badea, Adrian

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.04.062

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“…It is not straightforward to ascertain the first origin of windcatcher in the world. However, during archaeological investigations conducted by Masouda in 1970s, the first historical evidence of windcatcher was found in the site of Tappeh Chackmaq near Shahrood, Iran which dates back to 4000 BC [9,10]. Traditionally, windcatcher has been utilized in Persian…”

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Anti-short-circuit device: A new solution for short-circuiting in windcatcher and improvement of natural ventilation performance

Nejat

Calautit

Majid

et al. 2016

Building and Environment

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Anti-short-circuit device: A new solution for short-circuiting in windcatcher and improvement of natural ventilation performance

Nejat

Calautit

Majid

et al. 2016

Building and Environment

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“…A good overview on the historical evolution of energyefficient buildings is given by Ionescu et al 34 The earliest known, earth-sheltered, green-roofed buildings from 5000 B.C. were found in a Neolithic village on the Orkney Islands, Scotland, and similar dwellings existed in other areas with a cold climate.…”

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“…About a hundred years later, in 400 B.C., the Romans started to use wall heating, the so-called "hypocausts". 34 Natural materials like reed, eelgrass, straw, etc., were used in many subsequent building styles to thermally separate the interior from the exterior. Thus, the main functional aspects of the envelope, namely, insulation, thermal mass, ventilation, and solar gains, were already established in antiquity.…”

Section: Historical Evolution Of the Building Envelopementioning

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“…The concept of a zero-energy house was explored by many prominent projects such as the "Phillips Experimental House" (1975), the DTH zero-energy house (1975), the "Lo-Cal House" (1976), and the "Leger House" (1977). 34 Inspired by these advances, the idea of the "Passive House"-a building in which heat losses are reduced to a minimum by a highly insulated envelope-was developed in the late 1980s and implemented for the first time in the "Passive House Kranichstein" in 1991. 42 Accompanying a high-performance building envelope with integrated photovoltaic panels and a seasonal energy storage, an energy-autonomous single-family house-the Self sufficient Solar House-was realized in 1992 in Freiburg.…”

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Energy in buildings—Policy, materials and solutions

Koebel

Wernery

Malfait

2017

MRS Energy & Sustainability

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Buildings account for ∼40% of global energy demands, and the increased adoption of innovative solutions for buildings represents an enormous potential to reduce energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we critically review the current and future materials and solutions for the construction sector. We describe how policy affects innovative businesses and the adoption of new products and solutions. We investigate how the building envelope and user behavior determine building energy demands. Compared to conventional solutions, superinsulation materials (vacuum insulation panels, silica aerogel) can achieve the same thermal performance with drastically thinner insulation. With low-emissivity coatings and appropriate filler gasses, double and triple glazing reduces thermal losses by an order of magnitude. Vacuum and aerogel glazing reduce these even further. Switchable glazing solutions maximize solar gains during wintertime and minimize illumination demands whilst avoiding overheating in summer. Upon integration of renewable energy systems, buildings become both producers and consumers of energy. Combined with the dynamic user behavior, temporal variations in energy production require thermal and electrical storage and the integration of buildings into smart grids and energy district networks. The combination of these measures can reduce the energy consumption of the building's stock by a factor of three.

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“…It is believed that the main trends of the construction will be ecology, mobility, self-reliance and full automation of all systems running artificial intelligence. Already practiced production of bricks from waste rice husk, the use of smart glass, which are capable of generating electricity, the introduction of a shell building facades, regulating indoor climate [18][19][20]. Perhaps, in the not too distant future it will be impractical to construct buildings from recycled designs objects built hundreds of years ago.…”

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Specifics of system of external influences on the life cycle of a construction object

Aleksanin

Sborshikov

2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. There is a very important issue today which includes the harmonious and effective development of the system 'man -environment'. Construction is a branch of material production, which has a significant negative impact on the world around us. It is necessary to plan and operate processes of construction at all stages of the life cycle of a building without exception, to prevent of ecological threats. The article describes the concept of 'life cycle' as applied to various fields of knowledge, analyzes existing in the scientific literature division of the life cycle of buildings in the periods, proposes own approach to the division of periods of the life cycle on the basis of resource-saving. The article proposes the creation of a unified organizational system for the effective management of all periods with the constituent phases and formulates the main external influences on the building life cycle.The present stage of development of the construction industry is characterised by close inter-relationship with the natural environment. The harmonious development of the construction and the natural environment is the key to sustainable development of the system 'man -environment'. To date, there is the task of organization all the processes accompanying the creation of the construction object in a single control system, starting with the stages of initiation and pre-investment and ending with decommissioning or its liquidation. One of the main criteria for the operation of this system, in the first place, should be the focus on the balanced development of the environment. The decision of this task is based on the need to develop a set of measures to streamline and improve the existing mechanisms of formation and functioning of the processes in the context of the life cycle of a construction object. The process of creating a construction object can be divided into sub-processes, the interaction of regulation which will contribute to the harmonious coexistence of the construction object and the surrounding world.Let's consider stages of life cycle of the object, most often meeting in modern scientific works. The concept of 'life cycle' is widely used in many fields of knowledge, such as in biology, this term means the consequent shift of all generations, characteristic for this type of living organisms. In economics, there is the concept of 'life cycle of the organization' -a set of developmental stages which runs the firm during the period of its existence.For our research the most interesting definition is 'the life cycle of a building '. The life cycle of a building is a period during which carried out engineering survey, design,

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The historical evolution of the energy efficient buildings

Cited by 152 publications

References 12 publications

Anti-short-circuit device: A new solution for short-circuiting in windcatcher and improvement of natural ventilation performance

Anti-short-circuit device: A new solution for short-circuiting in windcatcher and improvement of natural ventilation performance

Energy in buildings—Policy, materials and solutions

Specifics of system of external influences on the life cycle of a construction object

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