Environmental Management and Health: Volume 13 Issue 4
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Sustainable house design: Fernando de Noronha‐Brazil
Rosãngela Tenório, Aldomar PedriniThis paper describes the methodology and the environmental assessment results of the proposed sustainable house in Fernando de Noronha island (038 51′ south and 328 25′ west), at…
Sunny walls vs sunnier roofs: A study on the advantages of roofs for solar collection
Thanos N. StasinopoulosThis study focuses on the widely accepted principle that the equatorial sides of a building offer the optimum solar potential for solar space heating. A comparison between the…
IDEA: Interactive Database for Energy‐efficient Architecture
Frank D. Heidt, Joachim Clemens, Stephan Benkert, Willi Weber, Peter Gallinelli, Johann Zirngibl, Claude François, André de Herde, Kristel de Myttenaere, Simos YannasThe project IDEA – Interactive Database for Energy‐efficient Architecture – is a multinational collaborative project to build a European knowledge base on advanced energy…
Two low income social housings: A comparative study of the environmental behaviour
Juan José MascaróThis paper studies the environmental behavior of two low‐income social housings: one is located in Barcelona, Spain, and the other in Porto Alegre, Brazil. They were both built…
Urban planning instruments to improve winter solar access in open public spaces
Maria Jose LeverattoThere is general consensus about the lack of open green spaces in Buenos Aires. Due to this, different actions are been proposed to improve the quality of existing ones. This…
Energy saving by means of innovative building envelope systems
Italo Meroni, Alba De Salvia, Roberto Lollini, M. Cristina PollastroNowadays, one of the main goals of the building industry and architecture is to exploit the solar source for the air‐conditioning of buildings. Over the last years many activities…
Green roofs in temperate climates and in the hot‐humid tropics – far beyond the aesthetics
Manfred Köhler, Marco Schmidt, Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme, Michael Laar, Vera Lúcia de Assunção Paiva, Sergio TavaresGreen roofs are still often seen as a pure aesthetical element in architecture, as a spleen of some “greenies”. In fact green roofs already contribute, to some extent, to a better…
Optimal orientation and automatic control of external shading devices in office buildings
Antonio Carbonari, Giancarlo Rossi, Piercarlo RomagnoniMovable shading devices are often used to control solar radiation falling on large glazed surfaces in contemporary non‐residential buildings. The paper presents some studies on…
A new language of architecture: in quest for a sustainable future
Arvind KrishanSustainability and architecture are synonymous terms. While sustainability, physically and economically, is to a large extent manifest in the habitat built form, it is the…