Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

A Martínez-Molina, I Tort-Ausina, S Cho… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings have become
high-interest topics among scholars. Research has demonstrated that retrofitting buildings to …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis of indoor environmental quality and self-reported productivity in intelligent and traditional buildings

ŁJ Orman, N Krawczyk, N Radek, S Honus… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
People tend to spend considerable amounts of time in buildings; thus the issue of providing
proper indoor environmental quality is of significant importance. This paper experimentally …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing daylight utilization of flat skylights in heritage buildings

M Marzouk, M ElSharkawy, A Mahmoud - Journal of Advanced Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Adapted reuse in old historical buildings has been a real challenge since the
state of deterioration is usually found severe, and suggested retrofitting is applied with high …

Advanced daylighting evaluation applied to cultural heritage buildings and museums: Application to the cloister of Santa Maria El Paular

SM Pinilla, DV Moliní, AÁ Fernández-Balbuena… - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
A method to evaluate the risk of using daylight in museums and cultural heritage exhibitions
is presented along this study. Although daylight is an ecological and sustainable source of …

Effects of indoor lighting conditions on subjective preferences of task lighting and room aesthetics in an Indian tertiary educational institution

S Roy, P Satvaya, S Bhattacharya - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Indoor lighting conditions influence the psychology of pupils in academic institutions and it is
expedient to investigate how subjective experiences are modulated by differences in lighting …

A methodological assessment of the importance of physical values in architectural conservation using Shannon entropy method

MSTT Del, SK Tabrizi - Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the typology of physical values in terms of architectural heritage
conservation. In all scientific research on architectural heritage, one or more physical …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation and optimization of daylighting in heritage buildings: A case-study at high latitudes

F Piraei, B Matusiak, VRM Lo Verso - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Transforming historical listed buildings into workplaces is a serious challenge, particularly
for buildings with relatively small windows in the façades, which determine scarce …

Light power resource availability for energy harvesting photovoltaics for self-powered IoT

K Seunarine, Z Haymoor, M Spence… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract As the Internet of Things (IoT) expands, the need for energy-efficient, self-powered
devices increases and so a better understanding of the available energy resource is …

Multi-criteria evaluation of a library's indoor environmental quality in the tropics

A Aflaki, M Esfandiari, A Jarrahi - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
The indoor environmental quality of a library greatly affects the comfort and productivity of its
users while preserving the materials. Despite the high energy consumption of HVACs in …

Lighting performance of urban vernacular architecture in the East-Mediterranean area: Field study and simulation analysis

A Michael, C Heracleous, S Thravalou… - Indoor and Built …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aims to investigate the natural lighting performance in indoor and semi-open
spaces of urban vernacular architecture in the Mediterranean region. In vernacular …