05190nam 2201117z- 450 991055736500332120220111(CKB)5400000000042242(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76939(oapen)doab76939(EXLCZ)99540000000004224220202201d2021 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNovel Technologies to Enhance Energy Performance and Indoor Environmental Quality of BuildingsBasel, SwitzerlandMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20211 online resource (246 p.)3-0365-2339-1 3-0365-2340-5 This Special Issue aims at reporting current investigations on emerging materials and devices taking up the challenge of pursuing a significant improvement in the energy performance of buildings and indoor comfort. What is the contribution of innovative technologies in the epochal transition to low environmental impact buildings? This is the question addressed in this Special Issue, in order to offer a wide and heterogeneous amount of data to readers, along with results of high scientific impact concerning the application of innovative technologies in construction. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change following the COP 21 Conference on Climate Change, organized by United Nations, required the States to reduce carbon emissions in the building stock. In the European Union, almost 50% of final energy consumption is used for heating and cooling; out of this huge amount, 80% is used in buildings. It makes sense, then, that the Union's goals are inherently linked to the real effort to renovate the building stock. To do this, in the EU and worldwide, the priority is to enhance energy efficiency, by deploying low-cost renewable energies and innovative technologies, especially those derived from recent achievements in the field of nanomaterials research, with special reference to building integration of novel technologies, spanning from chromogenics to semitransparent photovoltaics, super-insulating materials, and phase change materials. Articles here proposed deal with every construction or plant component of the building organism, taking advantage of novel technologies to improve their performance, from the envelope to structures, HVAC, and other technical systems, as well as indoor climate analyses in buildings and indoor environmental quality (IEQ), as well as visual comfort indoors.Technology: general issuesbicssc3D printed materialsadaptabilityadditive manufacturingairborne bacteriaairborne fungiarchitectural designausformingbioaerosolsbiomimeticsBIPVbuilding envelopebuilding performance simulationbuilding skinchallengesCO2 concentrationCO2 production rateCu-Zn-Aldeep reinforcement learningdemand controlled ventilation (DCV)design frameworkenergy conservationenergy efficiencyenergy savingenvironmental factorsfull-scale facilitygenetic algorithmgranular aerogelhybrid ventilated school buildingHYBUILDIEQindoor air quality (IAQ)indoor thermal comfortmicrostructuremultifunctionalityn/anoise pollutionoccupancy estimationoptimal controloptimizationozoneozone generationperovskite solar cellsphase change materialsportable air purifierproperty pricesrenewable energyresidential buildingsresidential marketretrofit actionsecond-skin materialsseismicsemi-transparentshape memorySMAsuper elasticitythermal energy storagethermal managementtransformation temperaturesTRNSYSventilated facadewindow frameTechnology: general issuesCannavale Alessandroedt1323408Martellotta FrancescoedtFiorito FrancescoedtCannavale AlessandroothMartellotta FrancescoothFiorito FrancescoothBOOK9910557365003321Novel Technologies to Enhance Energy Performance and Indoor Environmental Quality of Buildings3035516UNINA