Losses and heat gains through the facades have a significant influence on annual consumption of heating and cooling of buildings. Moreover, there is a recent trend among some architects considering facades as sophisticated ...

In the energy sector, the Dominican Republic offers an opportunity for domestic and foreign investment for urbanized areas with the introduction of a legal framework where renewable energy producers receive legal benefits ...

The liberalization of the electrical sector with Ley 54/1997, involved a significant change in the organization of the sector. It had a special impact in the generation activity. This activity evolved from having a high ...

The need for progress in achieving more efficient route management systems, involves the integration of heuristic algorithms with GIS. The result are spatial decision support systems (SDSS). These systems must to be ...

Energy efficiency in a project to build housing type is an essential tool in strategic planning, as this creates an opportunity to reduce energy consumption, design houses with low energy demand and promote more sustainable ...

In the European Union, almost half of the energy consumed belongs to the building sector. This, together with the commitment to achieve the Kyoto Protocol levels, in terms of energy consumption and emissions of greenhouse ...

The continual increase in energy costs and the volatility of energy prices are enforcing the implementation of energy efficiency measures (EEM) in companies. The choice of EEM in most cases is based on Pay-Back (PB) criteria, ...

The main aim of this study is to compare the requirements established by Spanish and Australian Building Codes in terms of energy efficiency through a case study. In the first place, the BCA (Building Code of Australia) ...

The ENERING LIFE + project (reference LIFE-ENV-11-ES-542) seeks to demonstrate, in a real industrial environment, the possibilities of integration of local renewable resources in industrial processes, in order to reduce ...

In some building typologies with stable electricity consumption profiles in the middle hours of the day, such as administrative and service sector buildings, solar photovoltaic technology is revealed as a source of energy ...