The impact of using Closed Cavity Façades (CCF) on buildings' thermal and visual performance

Glazing is a critical buildings element as it is the most vulnerable envelope part to heat gain and heat loss accounting for around 50% of a building's energy consumption. However, conventional glazing technologies have relatively low-performance characteristics which cause significant heat losses during winter and undesired heat gain in...

Building Impulse Toolkit (BIT): A novel IoT system for capturing the influence of façades on occupant perception and occupant-façade interaction

The design and operation of responsive resource-efficient buildings requires high resolution data in space and time on building performance and the associated occupant response, but capturing this high quality data has traditionally been technologically challenging, costly and disruptive to building occupants. Recent developments in Internet...