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Quantifying the impact of urban climate by extending the boundaries of urban energy system modeling

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Dasaraden Mauree

2018

A New Framework to Evaluate Urban Design Using Urban Microclimatic Modeling in Future Climatic Conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Dasaraden Mauree, Emanuele Naboni

2018

Thermal Comfort Maps to estimate the impact of urban greening on the outdoor human comfort

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo

Outdoor human comfort is an important factor in the evaluation of the liveability of a city as well as for promoting people’s health and well-being. In hot arid climates in particular, urban planning and design can considerably impact the day-to-day therma ...

2018

Passive design optimization of newly-built residential buildings in Shanghai for improving indoor thermal comfort while reducing building energy demand

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Shaoqing Gou, Qun Zhao

2018

Feasibility study on a novel daylighting system with embedded micro compound parabolic concentrators (CPCs)

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, André Gabriel Kostro, Jing Gong

A novel glazing system consisting of a polymer layer with embedded micro compound parabolic concentrators (CPCs), which is attached to a glass pane of glazing, is proposed. It aims to reduce the energy consumption due to cooling in buildings, provide dayli ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Assessing visibility in multi-scale urban planning: A contribution to a method enhancing social acceptability of solar energy in cities

Christian Roecker, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Josef Andreas Schuler, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Pietro Florio

Urban areas are facing a growing deployment of solar photovoltaic and thermal technologies on building envelopes, both on roofs and on façades. An effective solar energy planning process considers social acceptance, in relation to the landscape alteration ...

2018

Lighting control system

Laurent Deschamps, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Ali Motamed

In a control unit (8) for a lighting control system, wherein the control unit (8) is configured to calculate output values based on input values and the output values include control commands for a lighting installation (4, 6, 7.1, 7.2), the input values i ...

2018

An integrated approach to design site specific distributed electrical hubs combining optimization, multi-criterion assessment and decision making

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Dasaraden Mauree

An integrated approach is presented in this study to design electrical hubs combining optimization, multi-criterion assessment and decision making. Levelized Energy Cost (LEC), Initial Capital Cost (ICC), Grid Integration Level (GI), Levelized CO2 emission ...

Elsevier2017

Investigating the importance of future climate typology on estimating the energy performance of buildings in the EPFL campus

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Vahid Moussavi Nik

Climate changes induce warmer climate with stronger and more frequent extreme events. Due to the uncertain nature of climate, accurate simulation of future conditions is impossible and a major challenge is the selection of climate data in the impact assess ...

Elsevier2017

Toward proper evaluation of light dose in indoor office environment by frontal lux meter

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Ali Motamed, Maira Vieira Dias

The wearable Brazilian illuminance meter “OcuLux” provides the opportunity to monitor continuously pupilar illuminance for indoor environment. The device is calibrated to evaluate the illuminance in lux for the range of 0 to 3500 lux with 23% of precision. ...

Elsevier2017

The Integration of Outdoor Thermal Simulation Tools in Architectural Design

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Emanuele Naboni

2017

On the integration of Non-Image-Forming effects of light on venetian blinds and electric lighting control

Laurent Deschamps, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Ali Motamed, Marta Benedetti

Light induces important “Non-Image-Forming” (NIF) effects on human physiology and behavior, such as improvement of alertness, cognitive performance and mood. Considering these effects in office lighting can improve well-being and productivity of the occupa ...

Elsevier2017

Quantifying rooftop photovoltaic solar energy potential: A machine learning approach

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Dan Assouline

The need for reduction in CO2 emissions to mitigate global warming has resulted in increasing use of renewable energy sources. In urban areas, solar photovoltaic (PV) deployment on existing rooftops is one of the most viable sustainable energy resources. T ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Reinventing daylight

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Magali Bodart, Mirjam Münch, Jan Wienold

2017

Electrical hubs: An effective way to integrate non-dispatchable renewable energy sources with minimum impact to the grid

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Dasaraden Mauree

A paradigm change in energy system design tools, energy market, and energy policy is required to attain the target levels in renewable energy integration and in minimizing pollutant emissions in power generation. Integrating non-dispatchable renewable ener ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Characterization of a quasi-real-time lighting computing system based on HDR imaging

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Yujie Wu

In this paper we present the characterization of a calibrated embedded system for quasi real-time lighting computation based on HDR sky monitoring. To quantify its accuracy in lighting computation, we positioned the device in front of a test module with un ...

Elsevier2017

Extending building integrated photovoltaics (BiPV) using distributed energy hubs. A case study in Cartigny, Switzerland

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Nour Mdeihli, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

The integration of renewable energy technologies in the existing energy infrastructure plays a key role in improving the sustainability of cities. Due to the stochastic nature of some renewable energy sources, primarily wind and solar energy, direct integr ...

Elsevier2017

An overview of simulation tools for predicting the mean radiant temperature in an outdoor space

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Emanuele Naboni

When modelling outdoor microclimates, researchers and designers need to be aware of the modelling capabilities and limitations of tools. This comparative study attempts to understand how tools such as CitySim Pro, ENVI-met, RayMan, Grasshopper plug-ins Hon ...

Elsevier2017

Measurement of the impact of buildings on meteorological variables

Laurent Deschamps, Pierre Loesch, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Paul Becquelin, Dasaraden Mauree

A meteorological tower was installed on the EPFL campus in a semi-urban environment for the high frequency monitoring of the micro-climate. This project was done in the larger framework of the measurement of the meteorological profiles and also a quantific ...

2017

Bright Light Delights: Effects of Daily Light Exposure on Emotions, Rest-activity Cycles, Sleep and Melatonin Secretion in Severely Demented Patients

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

Objective: We tested whether the effects of a dynamic lighting system are superior to conventional lighting on emotions, agitation behaviour, quality of life, melatonin secretion and circadian restactivity cycles in severely demented patients. As a compari ...

Bentham Science Publ Ltd2017

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