Windows play a huge role in today's buildings, allowing for outside view and providing
occupants with daylight. However, windows are also often considered to be one of the …

The high impact of the building sector on global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, has
focused the attention on the energetic behaviour of the built environment. Starting from the …

Smart glass technology is promising building envelope solution for Responsive Building
Envelopes (RBEs) if smart communities with zero net emissions must be achieved. This …

Both organisms and adaptive building skins (ABS) respond to changing environmental
conditions. There have been several systems developed through the synthesis of …

Windows are often considered the weakest components in the thermal envelope driven by
their low thermal resistances and static transmittances to solar gains. While low-E coatings …

Considering global warming as a critical challenge to human life, performance optimization
of the building envelope can play a noticeable role to reduce a building's environmental …

Thermochromic switchable glazing have been gaining increasing popularity among
dynamic building envelope solutions aimed at reducing energy demand in tertiary buildings …

Adaptive building envelope systems can manage energy and mass transformation between
indoor and outdoor environments, which contributes to the achievement of environmental …

The building sector contributes approximately one third of the total energy consumption
worldwide. A large part of this energy is used for the heating and cooling of buildings, which …

Featured Application Reduction of energy consumption in residential and office buildings
through the improvement of latent heat storage in active and passive strategies. Abstract …