Concerning energy improvement of existing façades, a favourable system involves prefabricated multilayer panels, made internal insulation core and outer textile reinforced concrete layers. It is convincing alternative to external thermal composite systems (ETICS) ventilated it meets all the requirements for façade systems. The main advantage possibility toapply panel using crane, without any sc...

A new methodology for the synthesis, design and retrofitting of energy efficient separation processes that is based on the concept of shortest separation lines is presented. The basic theory of shortest distillation lines, formulated as a nonlinear programming problem, is given. Two examples are presented that show that energy efficient separations correspond to shortest stripping lines – even ...

Abstract: Ahierarchicalmodel predictive controller (HMPC) is proposed for flexible and sustainable building automation. The implications of a building automation system for sustainability are defined, and model predictive control is introduced as an ideal tool to cover all requirements. The HMPC is presented as a development suitable for the optimization of modern buildings, as well as retrofit...

We demonstrate the advantage of specializing semantic word embeddings for either similarity or relatedness. We compare two variants of retrofitting and a joint-learning approach, and find that all three yield specialized semantic spaces that capture human intuitions regarding similarity and relatedness better than unspecialized spaces. We also show that using specialized spaces in NLP tasks and...