REPORTS
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Housing needs, construction practices & urbanisation trends in NW-Africa & EU
Review of housing needs, construction practices a in North-West Africa & Europe and analysis of the housing situation in and current issues in urbanisation. (D2.1)
Training and regulatory infrastructure about bioclimatic in NW-Africa & EU
Survey including EU and african countries to identify the degree of development of training and building codes regarding biclimatic and passive approaches. (D2.2)
Infrastructure of local geo-bio based building materials production in NW-Africa & EU
Infrastructure for the production of construction materials and anaylsis of the needs and potentialities in the building sector. (D2.3)
Policies supporting passive & bioclimatic approach, and the use of local building materials in NW-Africa and EU
NEW! Discussion about successful or promising policies in promoting highly comfortable buildings with minimal energy need for heating and cooling. (D2.4)
Indicators of overall building energy performance
Review of the energy performance indicators available in the literature and standards to identify suitable KPIs for bioclimatic buildings. (D3.1)
Indicators to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality
Framework about the available methodologies, standards, tools & indicators to assess the Indoor Environmental Quality (D3.2)
Energy flexibility indicators, with focus on warm climate conditions
Describes the concept of flexible building though a critical review of the main methodologies, definitions and indicators. (D3.3)
Availability of weather files & indicators for today/future weather in Africa and EU
Reviews and discusses methodologies for weather indicators, weather datasets, and production of future weather files. (D3.4)
Available methods and tools for the generation of future weather files
Availability & reliability of weather files to represent current and future weather conditions and to improve the design of buildings. (D3.5)
Effect of future weather on the performance of one case studies
Analysis of the effect of future weather on the performance of a case study in different climates, focusing on when, where, and how passive design strategies are affected. (D3.6)
Materials and construction practices (local and/or adapted to local conditions)
This report investigates the potential of different studied bioclimatic materials as construction materials in Europe and Africa. (D3.7)
12 case studies of European and African Bioclimatic Buildings
Review of 12 fully documented case studies of bioclimatic buildings located in EU & Africa, with data collected from technical experts. (D3.8)
Additional 12 Case studies of European and African Bioclimatic buildings
Review of other set of 12 fully documented case studies of bioclimatic buildings located in EU & Africa, with data collected from technical experts. (D3.9)
Technical guidelines and tools for Bioclimatic Buildings
It provides guidance on the design of bioclimatic buildings in warm climates considering 21st century boundary conditions. This report includes some of the key outputs of the project (D3.11)
Updated training tools for building energy simulation (BES)
It lists support materials and tools developed within the ABC 21 project, to design new buildings characterized by low energy consumption.(D3.13)
Analysis of Policies for Exploitation of results
It presents options for policies and actions for the promotion of the bioclimatic approach and the increased utilization of local materials, based on the analysis made in WP2 and WP3. (D4.6)
PAPERS
- A study of a passive heating design employing a Trombe wall with PCM: A numerical investigation of the semi-oceanic climate in Morocco
- ASHRAE Likelihood of Dissatisfaction: A new right-here and right-now thermal comfort index for assessing the Likelihood of dissatisfaction according to the ASHRAE adaptive comfort model
- Assessment of graphene oxide clay wall performance as an efficient active heating system
- Effect of reinforced recycled sawdust-fibers additive on the performance of ecological compressed earth bricks
- Improving rheological and mechanical properties of non-plastic clay soil from Bensmim region (Morocco) using bentonite additions
- Machine learning forecasting of thermal, mechanical and physicochemical properties of unfired clay briks with plastic waste additives
- Rheological and physico-mechanical investigations on the destabilization of unfired clay bricks with almond husk additive by salt
- Simulation of an energy-efficient cool roof with cellulose-based daytime radiative cooling materiall
- Thermal Study of Clay Bricks Reinforced by Dry-Grass Fibers
- Thermophysical and Mechanical Assessment of Unfired Clay Bricks with Dry Grass Fibrous Filler
- Traditional and modern building materials and practices adapted to natural resources: a way to meet the resilience approach
- Utilization of recycled almond wastes as additives in unfired clay bricks
- Viscoelastic Measurements of Clay Suspensions and their Relationship to Strength of Unfired Clay Bricks with Almond Husk Additive
- Heat transfer characterization with alternative heating element layout in electric ‘Injera’ baking technology
OTHERS
Disclaimer: This information has been gathered as part of the project titled “ABC 21 – Africa-Europe BioClimatic buildings for XXI century”. We state that the project has no responsibility for the misuse of the publicly available information and results published, nor the impacts it may cause.