Essays about: "low energy housing"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 47 essays containing the words low energy housing.

  1. 21. Dacha Sweet Dacha: Place Attachment in the Urban Allotment Gardens of Kaliningrad, Russia

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Pavel Grabalov; [2017]
    Keywords : dacha; urban allotment garden; place attachment; urban informality; suburbanisation; Kaliningrad;

    Abstract : Official planning documents and strategies often look at cities from above neglecting people’s experiences and practices. Meanwhile cities as meaningful places are constructed though citizens’ practices, memories and ties with their surroundings. READ MORE

  3. 22. Chimney Effect in Data Centers : On the possibility to achieve natural draft through servers

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik

    Author : Sebastian Fredriksson; [2017]
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    Abstract : Data centers has in recent years experienced a rapid growth in numbers and size. Essentially, data centers are facilities housing IT equipment such as servers, switches and other network devices which use large amounts of electrical energy. Electrical energy is converted to heat by the data processing units in servers and therefore demand cooling. READ MORE

  4. 23. Study of glazed spaces as a renovation strategy for two typical residential multi-apartment buildings from the Swedish Million Programme

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Energi och byggnadsdesign

    Author : André Persson; Kaspars Bajars; [2017]
    Keywords : Energy renovation; Swedish Million Programme; glazed spaces; glazed balconies; double skin facade; energy efficient buildings; thermal comfort; economic feasibility; life cycle profit.; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : There were around one million apartments built in Sweden during 1965 to 1974 as part of the so called Swedish Million Programme, almost half of them concentrated in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe. These building are now considered unattractive. READ MORE

  5. 24. Collapsible Home : Celebrate life again

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/JTH, Produktutveckling

    Author : Meisam Kalantari; [2016]
    Keywords : housing; home; modular; prefabricated; urgent; temporary; foldable; collapse; catastrophic; hut; earthquake; collapsible; disaster; life; reborn; sustainable; green; catastrophy; service; service design; semantics; refugee; homeless; design; product design; industrial design; rescue; emergency; accommodate; accommodation; catastrophe; solar energy; hybrid; aftermath; humanitarian; social; war; civil war; civil; civilization; accommodating; housing alternative; housing; خانه پیش ساخته، زلزله‌ ، خانه تاشو، پیش ساخته ، مدولار، مدیریت بحران، امداد، کمک رسانی;

    Abstract : There has been significant increase in the occurrence of earthquakes and other disasters around the world recently. With record-breaking storms and natural disasters destroying different parts of the world, many people have to deal with the repercussions of the aftermaths; and homelessness is one of the facts of such incidence. READ MORE

  6. 25. Energy-efficient apartments for elderly

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Energi och byggnadsdesign

    Author : Antoni Balcerzak; [2016]
    Keywords : daylight; thermal comfort; shading; overheating; energy-efficiency; elderly people; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The literature claims that elderly people need warmer indoor temperatures, short overheating periods and more light indoors. The thesis analysed a case study building in order to propose a solution of the façade design in the energy-efficient apartments for elderly people. READ MORE