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Solar Energy and Buildings Physics Laboratory - Activity Report 2015

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

2016

Toward an Integrated Platform for Energy Efficient Lighting Control of Non-Residential Buildings

Laurent Deschamps, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Ali Motamed

Net energy import of Switzerland corresponds to about 13 BCHF (petroleum, uranium, etc.) each year. According to the energy perspective 2035 defined by Swiss Federal Office Energy, the energy import should be reduced to 7.3 BCHF. Meeting the goals defined ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

Overheating reduction of a cold formed steel-framed building using a hybrid evolutionary algorithm to optimize different PCM solutions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Cold formed steel-framed constructions have been strongly disseminated with particular emphasis on the residential sector due to their fast execution, quality control and final cost. However, this construction typology presents a weakness associated with a ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

Effective and robust energy retrofitting measures for future climatic conditions — Reduced heating demand of Swedish households

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Vahid Moussavi Nik

This article quantifies the energy saving potential and robustness of nine energy retrofitting measures,as well as four combinations of these, for residential building stocks of three major cities in Swedenand for five scenarios of future climatic conditio ...

Elsevier2016

Sensitivity of the dispatch strategy in designing grid integrated hybrid energy systems

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

Integrating renewable energy technologies based on solar PV (SPV) and wind energy in the energy system is challenging due to time dependence of the energy potential for these energy sources. Grid integrated hybrid energy systems combining SPV panels, wind ...

Ieee2016

Annual Performance Assessment of Complex Fenestration Systems in Sunny Climates Using Advanced Computer Simulations

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Chantal Basurto Dávila

Complex Fenestration Systems (CFS) are advanced daylighting systems that are placed on the upper part of a window to improve the indoor daylight distribution within rooms. Due to their double function of daylight redirection and solar protection, they are ...

2015

How green are British cities? Scaling relations and CO2 emissions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

How green or environmentally friendly urban areas are in comparison with rural areas is a topic that has received much attention in recent years. This is understandable because urban areas already emit around 70% of the global greenhouse gases. This percen ...

2015

Multi-scale modelling to improve climate data for building energy models

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree

The recent AR5 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has again stressed on the need for mitigation and adaptation measures to tackle issues related to climate change. Tackling future urban planning and energy efficiency in the building ...

2015

Outdoor human comfort and climate change. A case study in the EPFL campus in Lausanne

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo

2015

The EPFL Campus in Lausanne: New Energy Strategies for 2050

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo

The increase of the urban population and the climate change are issues that scientists and stakeholders are facing nowadays; in this optic a sustainable design should address buildings, and all the physical phenomena that interact with them, from the urban ...

Elsevier2015

Solar Energy and Buildings Physics Laboratory - Activity Report 2014

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

2015

Expansion and densification of cities: linking urban form to urban ecology

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Despite much research on the ecological impacts of urbanization, we still do not know what development patterns are most effective in supporting ecological function. In particular, it is as yet unclear if compact urban forms are ecologically more favourabl ...

2015

Effects of realistic office daylighting and electric lighting conditions on visual comfort, alertness and mood

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Friedrich Linhart, Apiparn Borisuit

Lighting conditions in workplaces contribute to a variety of factors related to work satisfaction, productivity and well-being. We tested whether different photometric variables also influence visual perception and the comfort of the lighting, as well as s ...

Sage Publications Ltd2015

Neighbourhood morphology and solar irradiance in relation to urban climate

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

Assessing the relationship between neighbourhood morphology and urban climate is becoming increasingly important as cities continue to grow and the climate continues to change. Here we focus on the impact of (1) shapes and sizes of buildings, (2) street la ...

2015

Climate responsive strategies of traditional dwellings located in an ancient village in hot summer and cold winter region of China

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

Global warming and energy shortage have aroused a great interest in climate responsive strategies of vernacular dwellings during recent years. This study focuses on a qualitative analysis of ancient dwellings located in the village of Xinye, in the hot sum ...

Elsevier2015

Nanocrystalline Low-Refractive Magnesium Fluoride Films Deposited by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering: Optical and Structural Properties

Paul Muralt, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Stefan Mertin

In this work, we study MgF2 thin-film synthesis by reactive pulsed DC magnetron sputtering from a metallic magnesium target in a gas mixture of argon, oxygen, and carbon tetrafluoride (CF4). Nanocrystalline films on silicon and glass substrates with excell ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Influence of doping in thermochromic V1−xWxO2 and V1−xAlxO2 thin films: Twice improved doping efficiency in V1−xWxO2

Rosendo Sanjines, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Antonio Paone

The parameters of thermal evaporation and magnetron sputtering deposition were optimized for fabrication of vanadium dioxide thin films. The O2 partial pressure during film deposition is critical for obtaining a pure VO2 phase. Thermochromic V1−xWxO2 (x = ...

Elsevier2015

Statistical-thermodynamics modelling of the built environment in relation to urban ecology

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Various aspects of the built environment have important effects on ecology. Providing suitable metrics for the built forms so as to quantify and model their internal relations and external ecological footprints, however, remains a challenge. Here we provid ...

Elsevier2015

The EPFL campus in Lausanne: new energy strategies for 2050

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo

2015

Reactively sputtered coatings on architectural glazing for coloured active solar thermal façades

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Martin Joly, Stefan Mertin, Virginie Hody-Le Caër

Covering a standard solar thermal collector with a coloured glazing, which is opaque to the human eye but highly transparent to solar energy, permits a perfect architectural integration of solar panels into glazed building façades. The colours are based on ...

Elsevier2014

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