Designing an Engagement Strategy to Improve Collaboration in the Construction Industry

The building construction industry is generally known as a procedural project with linear workflow and a traditional mindset. When a disruptive technology arises, the clients and partners face the challenge to understand the technology. In addition, their willingness to change is low. PHYSEE, a technology company that offers smart engineering...

Tem heat dissipation system: Increasing performance of a thermoelectrical integrated facade through the heat dissipation system

Recent studies show an increase in energy use on buildings due to higher cooling demands, constituting an increase of 17% of the global energy consumption by 2050. Tendencies also show that cooling degree days around the globe will also increase and this will display a greater impact on developing countries with warm climates. Subsequently, this...

THERM_VENATION: Active Thermal Façade Venation: Fabricating a concrete twin-wall façade panel optimised for integrated heat exchange system

Passive measures to tackle increasing energy demands of modern buildings are aimed to generate energy from the roof or the ground beneath and by improving insulation to isolate indoors and outdoors. The author targets the opaque facade sections of a building to develop an active panel to exchange solar thermal energy with his project THERM...

TE integrated facade: Design of an integrated facade for a typical office building in the semi-arid climate of Tehran using thermoelectric technology powered by PV panels for space heating and cooling

Building industry consumes around 50% of the world’s electricity consumption and space heating and cooling plays an important role in ozone depletion and global warming potential. Solar cooling technologies promise more sustainable approaches with reliance on solar energy as a renewable energy source. Thermoelectric technology is a promising...

COOLFACADE: State-of-the-art review and evaluation of solar cooling technologies on their potential for facade integration

Increasing cooling demands in the built environment call for innovative technical solutions and systems for application in buildings. Cooling loads represent an important share of the total energy consumption in warm climates, especially in commercial and office buildings. Moreover, mechanical systems will still be needed in most cases to cope...

Facade Leasing Demonstrator Project. Technical Delivery Report: Annex 4.2.6. FLD D2

Accelerating deep building energy retrofits within the Circular Economy transition. This technical report is an annex to the Facade Leasing Demonstrator Project 2018 performance report (4.2.6.FLD.D1). For general information on the Facade Leasing research project, its process, and objectives please refer to the aforementioned document.<br/>This...

Coolfacade: Architectural Integration of Solar Cooling Technologies in the Building Envelope

Increasing cooling demands in the built environment present an important and complex challenge for the design of sustainable buildings and cities. Even though the first course of action should always aim to reduce energy consumption through saving measures and passive design; these are often not enough to avoid mechanical equipment altogether,...

Façade Leasing: Drivers and barriers to the delivery of integrated Façades-as-a-Service

The construction and renovation of the building envelope represents a significant fraction of a project’s life-cycle costs. It also has a determinant effect on the potential reduction in energy use, as well as on the improvement of the building’s indoor comfort. Nevertheless, the challenge of a low rate and depth in building energy renovations...

Possibilities and Constraints for the Widespread Application of Solar Cooling Integrated Façades

Cooling demands in buildings have drastically increased in recent decades and this trend is set to continue into the near future, due to increasing standards of living and global climate change, among the most relevant factors. Besides energy consumption, the use of refrigerants in common vapour compression cooling technologies is a source of...

Main perceived barriers for the development of building service integrated facades: Results from an exploratory expert survey

The integration of decentralised building services into façade components presents advantages from functional and constructional standpoints. However, this integrated approach has not been massively implemented, having only stand-alone buildings and façade concepts as examples. This paper seeks to identify the main perceived problems at...

Value and cost assessment of an Integrated Facade as a Product Service System

This thesis is a value and cost assessment of integrated facades as a product-service system. It focusses on the value of this new business concept in the built environment. Theoretical value is explained after which research by design is conducted to show the added value and cost on a real case study.

Future Highway Dwellings

This paper will discuss what kind of technical solutions can be integrated into a building to be able to create livable dwellings or living areas nearby or next to a highway. With the growing population, cities tend to grow as well. As they grow, city parts and neighborhoods will be build closer and closer to the already existing infrastructures...

Transformation from 'office to dwelling' and 'dwelling to user'

High vacancy rates of offices are a major problem in the Netherlands. Especially since the start of the economic crisis, the number of empty office buildings has increased significantly. The highest vacancy rates can be found in non monumental offices with column structures build from 1960 till 1980. This office vacancy is due to esthetical,...

Stirling Solar cooling in office façades

The requirements, comfort needs and expectations for facades have increased, so has the need for energy efficient design. Present climate systems are using a lot of energy, especially to control heat and cooling loads. The cool load and solar power often occur at the same time and an increase of solar power often increases the cool load of a...