Air pressure acting on building envelopes can wreak havoc with building performance if not properly understood and adequately designed for. Uncontrolled air pressure across the building envelope and within the building itself can cause infiltration and exfiltration that overpower HVAC systems. By disrupting the HVAC design, pressures can cause discomfort and create infection control and indoor ...

Passive solar heating is presently a major concern of Romania groups working on building research and design. The first theoretical and experimental research studies were worked out in INCERC and used the following experimental bases: the INCERC 1 solar cabin (1974), the Campina solar houses (1976, 1977), the solar apartment buildings in Medgidia (1981) and CS 3 Bucharest solar house at INCERC ...

Within the European project "New Safe and Cost Effective Techniques Against Asbestos Risks" different methods for decontamination of asbestos in asbestos containing wastes, abbreviated as ACW from building industry were investigated. A mobile asbestos decontamination unit was developed, aiming at the complete disintegration of asbestos fibres on-site. The process is based on a chemo-thermal tre...

The growth of the Chinese district heating sector has been very rapid during recent years. No other country in the world can show the same rapid growth of district heating systems during the last decades. Heated building area increased six times between 1995 and 2008 according to the Chinese district heating statistics. China has also enjoyed strong growth of scientific articles and papers publ...

Projecting the long-term trends in energy demand is an increasingly complex endeavor due to the uncertain emerging changes in factors such as climate and policy. The existing energy-economy paradigms used to characterize the long-term trends in the energy sector do not adequately account for climate variability and change. In this paper, we propose a multi-paradigm framework for estimating the ...

This article presents empirical evidence on the determinants of the space heating technology applied by a household. Considering the increasing attention on efficient use of energy, it becomes vitally important to understand the energy-related behavior of households. Three sets of variables are examined as potential influences building , socio-economic, and regional characteristics. To highligh...