Dimitrios Bikas

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the LCEA of residential buildings and show an increasing share of embodied energy in the transaction from conventional to passive, low energy and nZEB, despite the reduction in the total life cycle energy that could reach up to 50%.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of outdoor absorption coefficient of an opaque wall on time lag, decrement factor and temperature variations is investigated by employing a dynamic thermal-network model, which simulates heat transfer by conduction through the wall and considers convection boundary conditions under detailed forcing functions on the wall outer and inner surfaces.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of 95 case studies of residential buildings, as an effort to identify the range of embodied carbon emissions and the correlation between the share of embodied energy and carbon for different levels of building's energy efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, an approach for defining climatic zones in Europe on the basis of the amount of heating and cooling degree days is presented, which is applied for the climate classification of selected European cities and is compared with the conventional scheme based solely on heating degree days.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the cooling performance of windows in the warmest part of Europe with regard to their geometrical, thermophysical and optical characteristics, as well as their shading provisions.