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Zero energy buildings and sustainable development implications ― A review

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In this paper, a review of the works related to these two strategies is presented and issues pertaining to sustainable development implications and further research work required are also highlighted, including life cycle cost and environmental impacts, climate change and social policy issues.
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This article is published in Energy.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 446 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Zero-energy building & Efficient energy use.

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Review of solar irradiance and daylight illuminance modeling and sky classification

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the solar radiation and daylight illuminance model developments and sky classification methods and found that machine learning techniques have been effectively used for predicting solar radiance and daylight illumination and classifying the standard skies.
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Optimization approaches and climates investigations in NZEB—A review

TL;DR: The global energetic and pollution challenges the world faces are presented and building energy optimization methods are employed to obtain the ideal solution for specific objective functions which are either related to energy, and/ or environment and/or economy.
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The Concept of Smart and NZEB Buildings and the Integrated Design Approach

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the principles of integrated design procedure and link the process with smart building technologies, highlighting the benefits of effective thermal and electrical storage as a crucial factor of smart systems and smart buildings.
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Sustainability and Energy Efficiency: BIM 6D. Study of the BIM Methodology Applied to Hospital Buildings. Value of Interior Lighting and Daylight in Energy Simulation

TL;DR: This work can see how applying a set of simulated improvement actions in BIM 6D achieves an energy saving of 50% in general and up to 13% only by acting on lighting systems, allowing the decarbonization of buildings with high energy consumption, such as hospitals, and in turn, will lead to an improvement in the energy certification of these buildings.
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Binder-free trimetallic phosphate nanosheets as an electrode: Theoretical and experimental investigation

TL;DR: In this paper, a uniformly distributed, interconnected, and well-aligned two-dimensional nanosheets made from trimetallic Zn-Co-Ga phosphate (ZCGP) electrode materials with preserved crystal phase was reported.
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World Energy Outlook

M.W. Thring

Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference - eScholarship

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the semantics of thermal comfort in terms of thermal sensation, acceptability, and preference, as a function of both indoor and outdoor temperature, as predicted by the adaptive hypothesis.
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Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference

TL;DR: In this paper, the adaptive hypothesis predicts that contextual factors and past thermal history modify building occupants' thermal expectations and preferences, which is contrary to static assumptions underlying the current ASHRAE comfort standard 55-92.
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Current methods and advances in forecasting of wind power generation

TL;DR: A review of the current methods and advances in wind power forecasting and prediction can be found in this article, where numerical wind power prediction methods from global to local scales, ensemble forecasting, upscaling and downscaling processes are discussed.
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