Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Goia, Francesco"
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Reliability and Performance Gap of Whole-Building Energy Software Tools in Modelling Double Skin Façades
Catto Lucchino, Elena; Goia, Francesco (Chapter, 2019)The careful design of the façade is one of the most influential strategies to lower the energy use in a building. A double skin façade (DSF) is one type of façade that allows the interaction between the outdoor and the ... -
Responsive glazing systems: Characterisation methods and winter performance
Bianco, Lorenza; Cascone, Ylenia; Goia, Francesco; Perino, Marco; Serra, Valentina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Responsive envelope components are promising technologies for improving the energy and indoor comfort performance of buildings. As far as the transparent envelope is concerned, several experimental and numerical researches ... -
Responsive glazing systems: Characterisation methods, summer performance and implications on thermal comfort
Bianco, Lorenza; Cascone, Ylenia; Goia, Francesco; Perino, Marco; Serra, Valentina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In recent years, there have been several experimental and numerical researches on transparent envelope components that integrate phase change materials (PCMs). To address some of the drawbacks of these systems, new prototypes ... -
Simplified metrics for advanced window systems. Effects on the estimation of energy use for space heating and cooling
Goia, Francesco; Romeo, Martina; Perino, Marco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Simplified metrics (U-value, g-value) are often used to energy use for space heating and cooling when conventional windows are adopted, but they are not fully capable of describing the thermophysical behaviour of more ... -
Simulating Switchable Glazing with EnergyPlus: An Empirical Validation and Calibration of a Thermotropic Glazing Model
Favoino, Fabio; Cascone, Ylenia; Bianco, Lorenza; Goia, Francesco; Zinzi, Michele; Overend, Mauro; Serra, Valentina; Perino, Marco (Chapter, 2015)Adaptive transparent building envelope technologies could play a significant role in decreasing energy use in buildings and providing a more comfortable indoor environment. In order to evaluate these potentials in an ... -
Simulation and control of shading systems for glazed facades
Chaudhary, Gaurav; Goia, Francesco; Grynning, Steinar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper presents a simulation study on the use of shading devices in highly glazed facades in the context of zero emission buildings (ZEB) located in a Nordic climatic context. Shading devices have the task to control ... -
Sinusoidal response measurement procedure for the thermal performance assessment of PCM by means of Dynamic Heat Flow Meter Apparatus
Fantucci, Stefano; Goia, Francesco; Perino, Marco; Serra, Valentina (Journal article, 2019)The implementation, in Building Performance Simulations (BPS) tools, of robust models capable of simulating the thermophysical behaviour of a Phase Change Material (PCM) represents a fundamental step for an appropriate ... -
Solar efficiency index of building envelopes and load matching in low energy buildings
Taveres-Cachat, Ellika; Goia, Francesco; Grynning, Steinar (Chapter, 2018)Net-zero energy buildings oftentimes rely on solar-based building integrated technologies to offset energy use and achieve their goals. However, the value of a particular system is difficult to assess given that these ... -
Spectral and angular solar properties of a PCM-filled double glazing unit
Goia, Francesco; Zinzi, Michele; Carnielo, Emiliano; Serra, Valentina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background Phase change materials (PCMs) have been proposed as a means to increase the thermal inertia of glazing systems. These materials have optical features that need to be investigated and characterised in order to ... -
Ten questions concerning co-simulation for performance prediction of advanced building envelopes
Taveres-Cachat, Ellika; Favoino, Fabio; Loonen, Roel C.G.M; Goia, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Advanced building envelopes (ABEs) are innovative integrated systems that aim to increase the sustainability of buildings by providing flexible and efficient energy management solutions while safeguarding healthy and ... -
The ZEB Living Lab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology: a zero emission house for engineering and social science experiments
Goia, Francesco; Finocchiaro, Luca; Gustavsen, Arild (Chapter, 2015)At the Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings of NTNU, a new test facility (Living Laboratory) is currently in the final stage of construction and will start its operation in summer 2015. The Living Laboratory was ... -
The ZEB Test Cell Laboratory. A facility for characterization of building envelope systems under real outdoor conditions
Goia, Francesco; Schlemminger, Christian; Gustavsen, Arild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The ZEB Test Cells Laboratory is an experimental facility at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, designed to carry out different types of experiments. The primary use is for testing of building envelope ... -
A theoretical framework for classifying occupant-centric data streams on indoor climate using a physiological and cognitive process hierarchy
Lassen, Niels; Goia, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)New and pervasive information and communication technologies have made it possible to capture a large range of continuous data from, or close to, each individual building occupant. These occupant-centric data streams may ... -
Thermal and optical properties of a thermotropic glass pane: Laboratory and in-field characterization
Bianco, Lorenza; Goia, Francesco; Serra, Valentina; Zinzi, Michele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Switchable windows are glazing technologies that exhibit dynamic optical properties and may thus be used to improve the energy performance of buildings. A window system based on a thermotropic glass pane was tested both ... -
Thermo-physical behaviour and energy performance assessment of PCM glazing system configurations: A numerical analysis
Goia, Francesco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The adoption of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) in glazing systems was proposed to increase the heat capacity of the fenestration, being some PCMs partially transparent to visible radiation. The aim of the PCM glazing ... -
Towards New Metrics for the Characterisation of the Dynamic Performance of Adaptive Façade Systems
Bianco, Lorenza; Cascone, Ylenia; Avesani, Stefano; Vullo, Pascal; Bejat, Timea; Koenders, Stefan; Loonen, Roel C.G.M; Goia, Francesco; Serra, Valentina; Favoino, Fabio (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Traditional façade characterisation metrics such as U-value and g-value are of limited value in the design process of buildings with adaptive façades. This issue is particularly important for adaptive façade components ... -
Tracer gas techniques for airflow characterization in double skin facades
Jankovic, Aleksandar; Gennaro, Giovanni; Chaudhary, Gaurav; Goia, Francesco; Favoino, Fabio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Monitoring airflow rates and fluid dynamics phenomena in the ventilated cavity is a challenging aspect of the experimental assessment of the performance of double-skin facades (DSF). There are various methods to characterize ...