Publications related to Roof garden

Identifying carbon emission reduction potentials of BIPV in high-density cities in Southeast Asia

We use life cycle analysis, urban building energy simulations and urban form generation to compare the operational carbon emissions of buildings with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) in locations with different grid electricity mixes in Southeast A ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

3D model discretization in assessing urban solar potential: the effect of grid spacing on predicted solar irradiation

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Giuseppe Peronato

The increasing interest in solar energy production in urban areas requires an accurate simulation of solar irradiation on building surfaces, including vertical surfaces. However, solar potential analyses are usually conducted on 2.5D models, which are limi ...

2018

Optimization Formulations for the Design of Low Embodied Energy Structures Made from Reused Elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Gennaro Senatore, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

The building sector is one of the major contributors to material resource consumption, greenhouse gas emission and waste production. Load-bearing systems have a particularly large environmental impact because of their material and energy intensive manufact ...

Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature2018

A city-scale roof shape classification using machine learning for solar energy applications

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dan Assouline, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Bérénice Guiboud, Andreas Bill

Solar energy deployment through PV installations in urban areas depends strongly on the shape, size, and orientation of available roofs. Here we use a machine learning approach, Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification, to classify 10,085 building roofs ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018

Structural concept and design of a GFRP-polyurethane sandwich roof structure

Thomas Keller, Sonia Yanes Armas

This work presents the concept and structural design of a 1000-m2 glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) sandwich roof replacing a timber roof over an indoor swimming pool. The advantages offered by the lightweight, multifunctional GFRP-polyurethane (PUR) s ...

2016

Does roof shape matter? Solar photovoltaic (PV) integration on building roofs

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dan Assouline, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Bérénice Guiboud

This paper focuses on roof-shape classification and solar potential for integrating photovoltaics (PV) on roofs. A machine-learning approach, Support Vector Machine (SVM), is used to classify the roof shapes in the city of Geneva. The impact of various roo ...

2016

Effects of elevated temperature on the shear response of PET and PUR foams used in composite sandwich panels

Thomas Keller, Mário Alexandre De Jesus Garrido

Composite sandwich panels comprising fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) skins and lightweight material cores are being increasingly used in civil engineering. In several applications, such as fa ades, roof structures and bridge decks, these panels may experien ...

Elsevier2015

Incorporation of Morphological Properties of Buildings' Descriptors Computed from GIS and LIDAR Data on an Urban Multi-agent Vector Based Geo-simulator

François Golay, Claudio Magalhaes Carneiro, Vitor Silva

In this paper we present an application of GIS and airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data analysis for computation of morphological properties of buildings' descriptors in the context of an urban morphogenesis geo-simulator. The morphological de ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Multifunctional fiber-reinforced polymer sandwich roof structure

Thomas Keller

This paper reports on the design and construction of a lightweight GFRP roof structure in Basel, Switzerland. The sandwich construction allowed for an integration of static, building physical and architectural functions that enabled the prefabrication of t ...

2008

Structural concept, design and experimental verification of a GFRP sandwich roof structure

Thomas Keller, Till Vallée

This paper reports on the design and construction of a lightweight glass fiber-reinforced polymer roof structure in Basel, Switzerland. The sandwich construction allowed for an integration of static, building physical and architectural functions that enabl ...

2008