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  • How density affects energy demand in urban grids: the case study of the Eixample district of Barcelona 

    García Nevado, Elena; López Ordóñez, Carlos Fernando; Besuievsky Gkikberg, Gonzalo; Morganti, Michele (2022)
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    High density and compact urban morphology are usually considered prerequisites for sustainable development. This paper explores the effect of density on the air-conditioning demand of urban grids in the Mediterranean ...
  • Influence of mass and insulation in building retrofitting 

    López Besora, Judit; Isalgué Buxeda, Antonio; Coch Roura, Helena; Crespo Cabillo, Isabel (2022)
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    The building envelope of old buildings is usually composed of a single layer with high mass and without thermal insulation, which characterizes its thermal behaviour. Retrofit actions tend to accomplish with thermal building ...
  • Embodied energy in passive architecture strategies: a balcony and a glazed gallery for a dwelling in a Mediterranean climate 

    Carrillo Arancibia, Pamela Ivón; Pagès Ramon, Anna (2022)
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    This paper contributes to studies with a global view of buildings environmental impact, considering the main stages of the building life cycle. The objective is to determine the energy trade-off between the operational ...
  • Sky view factor and urban heat island mapping applications in Barcelona 

    Salvati, Agnese; Casals Fernandez, Jordi; López Besora, Judit; Coch Roura, Helena (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2022)
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    This study proposes a methodology to map urban heat island intensity based on sky view factor (SVF) data, using Barcelona as a case study. We used LiDAR data to generate the SVF map of the city and empirical and simulation ...
  • Energy rehabilitation with external thermal insulation (ETICS) in Zaragoza (Spain): application to social housing in Saltillo, Mexico 

    López Ordóñez, Carlos Fernando; Cabello Matud, Cristina; Molar Orozco, María Eugenia; Alonso Montolio, Carlos; Coch Roura, Helena (2022)
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    The sustainability goals agreed by most countries have made them focus their attention on the high energy consumption of buildings and the weight within this consumption of the residential sector. This makes the energy ...
  • KM3NeT Core Collapse Supernovae observation program in standalone and multi-messenger modes 

    Ageron, M.; Aiello, S; Albert, Arthur; Alshamsi, Mohammed; Alves Garre, Sergio; Aly, Zineb; Ambrosone, Antonio; Ameli, Fabrizio; André, Michel; Androulakis, Giorgos; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anguita, M.; Anton, Gisela; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Isalgué Buxeda, Antonio (arXiv, 2021)
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    The KM3NeT research infrastructure in the Mediterranean is a multi-purpose cubic-kilometre neutrino observatory consisting of two detectors optimised to study cosmic and atmospheric neutrinos between GeV to PeV energies. ...
  • Generating future-urban weather files for building performance simulations: case studies in London 

    Salvati, Agnese; Kolokotroni, Maria (International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), 2021)
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    Many methods to generate future weather files to run building performance simulations have been proposed. However, future weather files do not account for local urban climate modifications, such as urban heat island ...
  • Towards zero emissions CO2: reduction in Mediterranean social housing 

    Sabaté, Joan; Peters, Christoph; Cuchí Burgos, Alberto; López Plazas, Fabian; Sagrera Cusco, Albert; Wadel Raina, Gerardo Fabian; Vidal, Jordina; Cantos, Sergi (2008)
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    An in-depth study of the construction, use and deconstruction of a 60 apartment social housing complex to be built close to Barcelona revealed the importance of the application of life-cycle analysis, as the materials’ ...
  • Análisis de datos para el desarrollo de un sistema de control automático de embarcaciones en un área portuaria 

    Bernal García, Ezequiel; Fernández Canti, Rosa M.; Isalgué Buxeda, Antonio (Universidade da Coruña. Servizo de Publicacións, 2021)
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    Según el último informe de la Agencia Europea de Seguridad Marítima (EMSA), un gran número de incidentes de navegación con víctimas se producen en instalaciones portuarias. Para minimizar el número de accidentes es necesario ...
  • Urban Growth vs Density. The case of a low - density and hot desert climate city 

    López Ordóñez, Carlos Fernando; Crespo Cabillo, Isabel; Roset Calzada, Jaime; Coch Roura, Helena (Universidade da Coruña, 2020)
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    One characteristic of sustainable urbanization is high density and compact city morphology. The actual global trend in urban growth is taking cities to lower densities. For hot desert climate cities, this form of dispersing ...
  • Characterization of library lighting design: a study of dynamic and static space 

    Espinoza Cateriano, Edgard Eduardo; Coch Roura, Helena; Crespo Cabillo, Isabel (Universidade da Coruña, 2020)
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    The use of space is a fundamental variable in the creative process, so it is included in the lighting design. This paper presents a key to characterize the lighting space, to be used in the initial stages of architectural ...
  • How Much Does It Cost to Go Off-Grid with Renewables? A Case Study of a Polygeneration System for a Neighbourhood in Hermosillo, Mexico 

    Wegener, Moritz; López Ordóñez, Carlos Fernando; Isalgué Buxeda, Antonio; Malmquist, Anders; Martin, Andrew (2019)
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    As governments and companies struggle to meet their own objectives for the energy transition, more innovative social and technological measures are needed to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. For this purpose, an ...

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