SmartUp Project: Preliminary lessons and provocations for design, operation and policy making of smart homes
This article explores preliminary findings on what happens to homes when they become smarter, considering how going digital affects the ways in which homes are imagined, planned, designed, and experienced on an everyday basis, provoking decision-makers to think widely about the contexts and consequences of their actions when implementing smart technologies to improve building performance.
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Technical Article - EXCESS develops replicable solutions for flexible user-centric energy positive buildings
The EXCESS project develops positive energy building solutions and demonstrates them in four European cities to prove that cost-competitive, positive-energy building solutions can be realised across different European climatic zones.
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Overview Article - Buildings as energy generators: EU initiatives and perspectives on Plus Energy Buildings
This article presents the overall framework for the definition of Plus Energy Buildings (PEB) and the latest results from projects in terms of technology solutions, multiple benefits analysis, and policy recommendations.
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Overview Article - Ventilation performance analysis for buildings: an overview of methods and applications
Ventilation plays a pivotal role in delivering comfortable and healthy indoor conditions to buildings’ occupants since both thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) are affected by ventilation. This article presents an overview of the metrics and the methods used to predict ventilation performance in buildings and of relevant EU policies and initiatives addressing the topic.
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Technical Article - Indoor air quality and thermal comfort after thermal renovation. A monitored example
Monitoring data analysis shows that after a Passive House renovation, the indoor air quality is largely below 1000 ppm and the thermal comfort is improved with relatively high temperatures achieved.
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Technical Article - Arise article series ‘Digitalisation in the built environment’ #6: Stimulating the demand for skills
Understanding and achieving the sustainable benefits deriving from digitalisation is a critical step in ensuring we deliver a skills-literate workforce capable of delivering green construction.
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Technical Article - Arise article series ‘Digitalisation in the built environment’ #5 Implementation: The benefits of a digitally informed and empowered workforce
Each wave of new technology is usually heralded as a time-saving feature, leaving more time for design. This new void typically gets filled up with the protocols needed to implement these new competencies. Automating this becomes a game changer. We are on the cusp of generative architecture, where function becomes a mechanism to derive a design. Computational algorithms analyse and explore possibilities based on specific goals or constraints. Skills are needed to equip professionals to deliver paradigms and achieve their potential.
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