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Comfort and Technologies: From the Individual’s Needs to Cleantech

Marilyne Andersen
2011
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The Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) is one of the two (ultimately five) ‘mirror’ labs for the EPFL Middle East campus. Synergistic research and education initiatives are being developed with a focus on climate as a driver for building envelope performance. Research at the interface between design and performance is of primary interest in today’s energy and environmental context in Western countries and cool-temperate to warm-temperate environments. But it is even more critical in a hot-arid climate that imposes extreme environmental conditions and where overly glazed envelopes pose particularly serious comfort and energy issues.

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Marilyne Andersen
2011
Talks

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/db37896a-4e0f-4685-93f1-62d8193a42d7

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