PAPER-SHADE: DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE MODULAR BUILDING SHADING SYSTEMS UTILIZING RECYCLED PAPER TOWARDS SERIAL PRODUCTION

The paper will present an ongoing research for the design and manufacturability of modular building shading systems utilizing recycled paper as the primary material ingredient. The Paper-Shade project proposes a radically new solution: surplus recycled paper into a building construction product. The research aims to develop prototypes of serially manufactured modules that are sustainable in their materiality, manufacturing process, performances, life span cycle, as well as eventual re-cycling. The methodology utilized throughout the research is primarily a hands-on one. The research consortium consists of academic, industry and professional practice partners. The prototypes therefore develop through cyclical processes involving case-study assessments (theoretical and physical), cataloguing of data and outlining directives, defining desired-for specifications, testing through simulation, physical testing and laboratory results. Serial production possibilities as well as product affordability and maximized building energy performance are also considered. The Paper-Shade project may be considered as a modern-day version of vernacular building systems such as adobe bricks. It is also a new take on the modernist era’s concrete shading modules that were extensively and successfully used in the past in hot climatic zones but unfortunately forgotten during the recent decades. The project aims to revive intelligent shading systems by prototyping sustainably produced and performing shading modules towards an improved built environment.

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Thermal Performance of Konrad Frey’s Prefabricated Low-Cost Loft House - A Case Study of a Pioneering Instance of Sustainable Architecture

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.887.204 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 887 ◽

pp. 204-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Matthias Schuss ◽

Mahnameh Taheri ◽

Ulrich Pont ◽

Ardeshir Mahdavi

Keyword(s):

Thermal Performance ◽

Research Effort ◽

Low Cost ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Passive Cooling ◽

Night Time ◽

Sustainable Architecture ◽

Ongoing Research ◽

Building Components

This contribution presents an ongoing research effort addressing the performance assessment of a number of buildings planned by the Austrian architect Konrad Frey, who is considered to be one of the pioneers of sustainable architecture in Austria. A number of his buildings, planned in the 1970s, consequently integrated principles of modern solar houses. Relevant key projects are subject of an on-going research project. Thereby numeric building simulation was deployed to assess the energy performance of the buildings. In this contribution, we present the intermediate results of a study that focused on one of his latest buildings, namely the prefabricated low-cost loft house. As opposed to architect’s rather complex early designs the loft house concept targeted inexpensive solutions and used simple and commonly available building components and systems. As part of the overall project, the thermal performance of this building was evaluated in terms of the effectiveness of passive cooling via various ventilation schemes (including night time ventilation).

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Simulation and Thermo-Energy Analysis of Building Types in the Dominican Republic to Evaluate and Introduce Energy Efficiency in the Envelope

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13143731 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 3731

Author(s):

Joan Manuel Felix Benitez ◽

Luis Alfonso del Portillo-Valdés ◽

Victor José del Campo Díaz ◽

Koldobika Martin Escudero

Keyword(s):

Dominican Republic ◽

Large Scale ◽

Energy Analysis ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Comfort Level ◽

Construction Sector ◽

Tertiary Sector ◽

Climatic Zones ◽

The Common

The improvement of the energy performance in buildings is key for sustainable development, even more so in the case of the Dominican Republic (DR), which is committed to this goal but which has neither regulation nor specific social behavior in this field. The main goal of this work is double; on one hand it is aimed at providing useable information for those who have the responsibly of making regulation norms and on the other, it is desirable to give an essential, technically proven and handy tool to those involved in the construction sector in improving the envelopes of buildings and to introduce good practices into the management of the energy systems of buildings. A case study of eight administrative buildings located in different climatic zones of the DR was carried out. A simulation tool was used for the study, and one of the buildings was monitored to verify the simulation work. Those factors that affect the development of the buildings in relation to thermo-energy consumption have been detailed. The large-scale heat gains resulting from the common glazing used by the tertiary sector in the Dominican Republic (including office buildings, hospitals and shops among others) illustrate the need for economically viable solutions in this sector. As a conclusion, it has been proved that the incidental thermal load of buildings could be reduced by up to 40%, thus in turn reducing the costs associated with the electricity needed to maintain the users’ desired thermal comfort level, as their influence in this sector is significant.

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Energy Efficient Building Systems For Urban Transformation Projects: Case Study

Journal of World Architecture ◽

10.26689/jwa.v4i4.1276 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Vail Karakale ◽

Ismail Eekmekci ◽

Nevzat Sadoglu

Keyword(s):

Reinforced Concrete ◽

Urban Renewal ◽

Energy Efficient ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Building Systems ◽

Cold Formed Steel ◽

Marmara Earthquake ◽

Energy Efficient Building

In last decades uncontrolled rapid urbanization in Turkey led to existence of squatter areas and disaster-vulnerable building stocks. After 1999 Marmara earthquake urban renewal has become the base of urbanization politics and planning agenda in Turkey. Turkish building industry usually uses RC buildings in the urban renewal projects. In recent years cold formed steel CFS and 3D panel building systems due to its lightweight, fast constructed, energy efficient , and economy start to be used as an alternatives to reinforced concrete buildings especially in seismic areas. In this paper energy performance of three building systems were investigated on a case study school building. Analysis results shows that 3D panel and CFS buildings systems will established with 59% and 36% less energy requirements with respect to traditional reinforced concrete non-insulated buildings.

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Science Fiction and Administrative Truths: The Short Story and Novella as Administrative Cases

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.389 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

Nolan J. Argyle ◽

Lee M. Allen

Keyword(s):

Science Fiction ◽

Public Administration ◽

Short Story ◽

Interesting Case ◽

Organizational Complexity ◽

Professional Career ◽

Playing Field ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Hands On

Pre-service and in-service MPA students share a common desire for hands-on, real world instruction related to their professional career goals, leading to a pedagogic discounting of fiction as an appropriate tool for analyzing and "solving" problems. However, several factors weigh heavily in favor of using science fiction short stories and novellas in the MPA classroom setting. These include the need for interesting case scenarios exploring various administrative issues; leveling the playing field between the two types of students by de-emphasizing the use of "contemporary" cases; access to literature that explores the future shock of increasing organizational complexity; and the desirability of Rorschach type materials that facilitate discussion of. values and administrative truths. The discussion proceeds by tracing the development of the case study technique, its advantages and disadvantages in the classroom, addressing the utility of "fiction" as an educational resource, and showing how the science fiction literature has matured to the point where it can be applied in all of the major sub-fields of public administration. Several outstanding examples are detailed, and a thorough bibliography is provided.

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Novel approach to investigate the influence of optimum tilt angle on minimum cost of energy based maximum power generation and sizing of PV systems: A case study of diverse climatic zones in India

IEEE Access ◽

10.1109/access.2021.3102153 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Amit Kumar Yadav ◽

Hasmat Malik ◽

SS Chandel ◽

Irfan Ahmad Khan ◽

Sattam Al Otaibi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Power Generation ◽

Tilt Angle ◽

Minimum Cost ◽

Maximum Power ◽

Climatic Zones ◽

Pv Systems ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Cost Of Energy

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Neighborhood Energy Modeling and Monitoring: A Case Study

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14123716 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (12) ◽

pp. 3716

Author(s):

Francesco Causone ◽

Rossano Scoccia ◽

Martina Pelle ◽

Paola Colombo ◽

Mario Motta ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Early Stage ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Monitoring Plan ◽

Performance Targets ◽

Carrier Energy ◽

Zero Carbon ◽

Energy Grid

Cities and nations worldwide are pledging to energy and carbon neutral objectives that imply a huge contribution from buildings. High-performance targets, either zero energy or zero carbon, are typically difficult to be reached by single buildings, but groups of properly-managed buildings might reach these ambitious goals. For this purpose we need tools and experiences to model, monitor, manage and optimize buildings and their neighborhood-level systems. The paper describes the activities pursued for the deployment of an advanced energy management system for a multi-carrier energy grid of an existing neighborhood in the area of Milan. The activities included: (i) development of a detailed monitoring plan, (ii) deployment of the monitoring plan, (iii) development of a virtual model of the neighborhood and simulation of the energy performance. Comparisons against early-stage energy monitoring data proved promising and the generation system showed high efficiency (EER equal to 5.84), to be further exploited.

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Decision-Making Processes in Controlling Exposure to Sunlight Supported by Simulation Tools: A Case Study in Warm Weather

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14144100 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (14) ◽

pp. 4100

Author(s):

Mariana Huskinson ◽

Antonio Galiano-Garrigós ◽

Ángel Benigno González-Avilés ◽

M. Isabel Pérez-Millán

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Global Analysis ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Information Modeling ◽

The European Union ◽

Evaluation Tool ◽

Simulation Tools ◽

Building Information ◽

The Impact

Improving the energy performance of existing buildings is one of the main strategies defined by the European Union to reduce global energy costs. Amongst the actions to be carried out in buildings to achieve this objective is working with passive measures adapted to each type of climate. To assist designers in the process of finding appropriate solutions for each building and location, different tools have been developed and since the implementation of building information modeling (BIM), it has been possible to perform an analysis of a building’s life cycle from an energy perspective and other types of analysis such as a comfort analysis. In the case of Spain, the first BIM environment tool has been implemented that deals with the global analysis of a building’s behavior and serves as an alternative to previous methods characterized by their lack of both flexibility and information offered to designers. This paper evaluates and compares the official Spanish energy performance evaluation tool (Cypetherm) released in 2018 using a case study involving the installation of sunlight control devices as part of a building refurbishment. It is intended to determine how databases and simplifications affect the designer’s decision-making. Additionally, the yielded energy results are complemented by a comfort analysis to explore the impact of these improvements from a users’ wellbeing viewpoint. At the end of the process the yielded results still confirm that the simulation remains far from reality and that simulation tools can indeed influence the decision-making process.

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Mapping the energy poverty: a case study based on the Energy Performance Certificates in the city of Bologna

Energy and Buildings ◽

10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.110718 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 110718

Author(s):

Kristian Fabbri ◽

Jacopo Gaspari

Keyword(s):

Energy Performance ◽

Energy Poverty ◽

The City

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UNDERSTANDING THE EMBEDDED CARBON CHALLENGES OF BUILDING SERVICE SYSTEMS

Proceedings of the Design Society ◽

10.1017/pds.2021.589 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 3279-3288

Author(s):

Maria Hein ◽

Darren Anthony Jones ◽

Claudia Margot Eckert

Keyword(s):

Energy Use ◽

Cooling System ◽

Current System ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Service Systems ◽

Carbon Footprints ◽

Embodied Carbon ◽

Study Results ◽

Operational Energy

AbstractEnergy consumed in buildings is a main contributor to CO2 emissions, there is therefore a need to improve the energy performance of buildings, particularly commercial buildings whereby building service systems are often substantially over-designed due to the application of excess margins during the design process.The cooling system of an NHS Hospital was studied and modelled in order to identify if the system was overdesigned, and to quantify the oversizing impact on the system operational and embodied carbon footprints. Looking at the operational energy use and environmental performance of the current system as well as an alternative optimised system through appropriate modelling and calculation, the case study results indicate significant environmental impacts are caused by the oversizing of cooling system.The study also established that it is currently more difficult to obtain an estimate of the embodied carbon footprint of building service systems. It is therefore the responsibility of the machine builders to provide information and data relating to the embodied carbon of their products, which in the longer term, this is likely to become a standard industry requirement.

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