Energy and environmental issues of smart buildings

• Energy and urban buildings
• The impact of the construction sector
• Energy efficiency and energy conservation in buildings
• Benefits of adaptive buildings
• Benefits of vegetation
• Thermal comfort
• Benefits of comfort in the workplace
• Thermal comfort control
• Technological individual control
• Human adaptation
• Comfort standards
• Estimation of energy savings due to different thermal comfort standards
• Degree-days
• Relation between degree-days and energy consumption
• Finding degree-days from the probability distribution of monthly temperature
• Degree days for heating
• Degree days for cooling
• Climatic data
• Estimating the energy reduction
• Visual comfort
• High environmental quality approach
• Targets of HQE®
• The role of building regulation
• Examples

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