Smart Cities
A city shall be viewed as a system composed of different subsystems essential for its functioning and performance, such as water, gas and electricity infrastructure, transportation, urban development and buildings, architecture, public services, healthcare, government and many others. These areas are typically considered to be independent and different municipality agencies,
Energy savings technologies for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system
The heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system consumes about 1/3–2/3 of the total building energy. Therefore, studies on the operation strategies of the air-conditioning system and building envelope thermal properties have always been a hot topic. Deng studied the effects of air-conditioning operation mode on the energy consumption of a model
Building integrated renewable energy
About one-third of the primary energy in the world is consumed by buildings. A large amount of CO2 emission due to building energy consumption has threatened the sustainable development of the world. Improvement on the building energy performance, especially by integration with renewable energy resources has attracted interest worldwide to
Future of Facility Management
What is Facility Management? Facility management is a multidisciplinary topic that requires the collaboration and coordination of different people. ISO 41011:2017 defines FM as an “organizational function which integrates people, place and process within the built environment with the purpose of improving the quality of life of people and the productivity
An Architecture of Visual Images
The ocular bias has never been more apparent in the art of architecture than in the past half century, as a type of architecture, aimed at a striking and memorable visual image, has predominated. Instead of an existentially grounded plastic and spatial experience, architecture has adopted the psychological strategy of