Lucila Chebel Labaki

• Abstract

  The use of vegetation as bioclimatic strategy is well known both by academic and construction professionals. However there are few studies on the effectiveness of living roofs and walls to create comfortable environments. As part of the facade and roofing system, the vegetation can minimize heat gain, providing better thermal comfort conditions in buildings. The adoption of this element o…

  Thermal effect of greenery in building envelopes: shading devices and windbreakers for walls and roofing systems, AP.R
• 27th international conference on passive and low energy architecture PLEA2011, AR.EXT

• Abstract

  The natural ventilation of the buildings, used to provide thermal and hygienic comfort of its users, is a strategy to reduce the consumption of energy, because it uses openings and/or passive devices to produce the air movement inside the places. It is important to know and quantify some variables like speed, pressure, temperature, and pressure coefficient to study the effects of the wind…

  Wind tunnel of atmospheric boundary layer: calibration and building openings simulations using reduced models, AP.R

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• Abstract

  Due to the great importance that natural ventilation has on thermal comfort, and since it is recommended for most of the Brazilian climates. Despite this, researches indicated a low quality of natural ventilation in Brazilian buildings, especially in social housing, which means impacts the life quality of millions of people in the country. In addition, 15% of residential buildings in Braz…

  Ventilation in H shaped buildings: an optimization of the shape based on the facades pressure coefficient, BP.DR

• Abstract

  Climatic zoning for building energy efficiency purposes is an important element in building energy policy; however, there is no consensus about the most appropriate methodology for its definition. Nowadays, more than 54 countries are subject of climatic zoning and in most of the cases few parameters are taken into account. Currently, there are no procedures or performance indicators to as…

  A performance-based procedure to support the validation of climatic zoning for building energy efficiency applications, BP.PD

• Abstract

  The light pipes are efficient unconventional daylighting systems that delivery light into difficult places where recently just artificial light could be. In the undergraduation research, daylighting was studied through the conventional system window by the reduced scale models. In the master, unconventional daylighting delivery systems were studied, focusing on the square section mirrored…

  Daylighting predictive model of light pipes, BP.PD

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• Abstract

  Due to the great importance that natural ventilation has on thermal comfort, and since it is recommended for most of the Brazilian climates, several researchers indicate a low quality of natural ventilation in Brazilian buildings, especially in social housing, which means a harmful impacts on the life quality of millions of people in the country. In addition, 15% of residential buildings …

  Validation of CFD simulation through experimental study of wind pressures on H-shaped building, BE.EP.DR

• Abstract

  Building energy regulations have been developed to reduce impacts on climate change. As they require quantifying energy use, simulation tools can help designers and decision makers improve buildings' energetical and environmental aspects. Decision making is a complex process in the early design stage of a high-performance building, as there are several variables to be considered that may …

  Coupling EnergyPlus and Matlab to optimize energy efficiency and thermal comfort in office buildings design using genetic algorithm, BE.EP.DR

• Abstract

  Climatic zoning for building energy efficiency applications has important implications in the global energy policy scenario. However, most of the climatic zoning methods currently used are based on few parameters, leading to an oversimplification and ignoring several aspects that are essential for building energy efficiency. In such a context, reliable methods for climatic zoning validati…

  Robustness of a Performance-based validation of climatic zoning for building energy efficiency applications, BE.EP.PD

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