Browsing Fakultet for ingeniørvitenskap (IV) by Journals "Building and Environment"
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The influence of acclimatization, age and gender-related differences on thermal perception in university buildings: Case studies in Scotland and England
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Abstract The higher education sector in the UK is responsible for large amount of the country’s energy consumption. Space heating, which is the largest and most expensive part of the energy used in the UK educational ... -
Integration of Life Cycle Assessment in the Design of Hollow Silica Nanospheres for Thermal Insulation Applications
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)New materials represent an important part of the strategy towards reduced emissions in the building industry. The relative importance of the embodied energy and carbon footprint from the material production in building ... -
Interior insulation retrofit of a historical brick wall using vacuum insulation panels: Hygrothermal numerical simulations and laboratory investigations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Old listed buildings need to be retrofitted to reduce the energy use for heating. The possible thickness of the insulation layer is limited by the existing construction. Vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) require less thickness ... -
An international review of occupant-related aspects of building energy codes and standards
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In light of recent research, it is evident that occupants are playing an increasingly important role in building energy performance. Despite the important role of building energy codes and standards in design, the ... -
Life cycle analysis of GHG emissions from the building retrofitting: The case of a Norwegian office building
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Through a systematic study, this paper conducted a life cycle assessment (LCA) consisting of evaluation of both embodied and operational emissions of different building retrofitting scenarios for a typical office building, ... -
A methodology for the selection of pollutants for ensuring good indoor air quality using the de-trended cross-correlation function
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)CO2 is customarily used to control ventilation as it is a proxy for bio-effluents and pollutants related to the presence and activity of people in the room. However, CO2 could not be a satisfactory indicator for pollutants ... -
Modeling occupant behavior in buildings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power, and technical solutions. This study reviews ... -
Moisture control strategies of habitable basements in cold climates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In many countries with a cold climate, basements are used as dwellings. This presents a major challenge concerning moisture safety design. Climate change is expected to increase the risk of moisture-related damage in ... -
Moisture-resilient performance of concrete basement walls – Numerical simulations of the effect of outward drying
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The moisture safety designs of basements used for habitation have become a topic of concern. Basements are prone to high moisture strain and have a limited outward drying ability compared with above-grade structures. The ... -
Monitoring outward drying of externally insulated basement walls: A laboratory experiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Basements used for habitation represent a major challenge in terms of moisture safety design; they are prone to high moisture strain and have a limited ability for outward drying compared to structures above grade. Exterior ... -
New dose-response model and SARS-CoV-2 quanta emission rates for calculating the long-range airborne infection risk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Predictive models for airborne infection risk have been extensively used during the pandemic, but there is yet still no consensus on a common approach, which may create misinterpretation of results among public health ... -
On occupant-centric building performance metrics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Existing building performance metrics cover a wide variety of domains including energy performance, equipment performance, electric lighting, indoor environmental quality, capital and operating costs, and environmental ... -
Optimization of thermal insulation thickness pertaining to embodied and operational GHG emissions in cold climates – Future and present cases
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Determining the optimal insulation thickness is useful for designing zero-emission buildings (ZEB) to minimize the environmental impacts. The energy required to heat buildings in cold climates is relatively high. Substantial ... -
Performance assessment of all-air heating in an office cubicle equipped with an active supply diffuser in a cold climate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Low-temperature space heating systems play a prominent role in improving the indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort of energy efficient buildings in cold-climate countries such as Norway. All-air heating (AAH) systems ... -
Perspective of Aerogel Glazings in Energy Efficient Buildings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The application perspective of aerogel glazings in energy efficient buildings has been discussed by evaluating their energy efficiency, process economics, and environmental impact. For such a purpose, prototype aerogel ... -
Predicting annual illuminance and operative temperature in residential buildings using artificial neural networks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Simulation-based multi-objective optimizations is proving to be an effective approach for supporting the building design and finding a balance between daylight availability, thermal comfort and energy performance. This ... -
Review of adaptive thermal comfort models in built environmental regulatory documents
(Journal article, 2018)This paper presents the experimental validation of a thermal model describing the ZEB Test Cells Laboratory, located at the Gløshaugen campus of NTNU and SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway. Besides, a local sensitivity analysis ... -
Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Building occupants are continuously exposed to multiple indoor environmental stimuli, including thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality related factors. Moreover, personal and contextual aspects can be regarded as ... -
Simulation-based framework to evaluate resistivity of cooling strategies in buildings against overheating impact of climate change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Over the last decades overheating in buildings has become a major concern. The situation is expected to worsen due to the current rate of climate change. Many efforts have been made to evaluate the future thermal performance ... -
Suitability evaluation on laminar airflow and mixing airflow distribution strategies in operating rooms: A case study at St. Olavs Hospital
(Journal article, 2021)Operating room (OR) is an indispensable department in a hospital, while its ventilation system is an important engineering solution to ensure safety for surgical procedures. Suitable ventilation system in the OR should be ...