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Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications

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The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...

EPFL2024

Degradable and Printed Microstrip Line for Chipless Temperature and Humidity Sensing

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Research on chipless and passive architectures for environmental sensing is generating high interest because they do not require any semiconductor components or batteries to operate, thus resulting in an eco-friendlier footprint. This study demonstrates a ...

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Fungal mycelia: From innovative materials to promising products: Insights and challenges

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In transitioning toward a sustainable economy, mycelial materials are recognized for their adaptability, biocompatibility, and eco-friendliness. This paper updates the exploration of mycelial materials, defining their scope and emphasizing the need for pre ...

Aip Publishing2024

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Sustainable Materials: Production Methods and End-of-life Strategies

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All three natural polymers of biomass and the monomer platforms derived from them present multiple avenues to develop products from specialty to bulk markets, which could serve as entry points into the industry for bio-based sustainable materials. However, ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2023

Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980). Architectural study and retrofitting proposals

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Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...

EPFL2023

Reuse of Load-Bearing Timber Elements - Case Study of a Lookout Tower in Lausanne, Switzerland

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The construction industry is jeopardizing Earth’s environment; current mitigation efforts do not suffice; and additional sustainable strategies are required. One such strategy consists of reusing structural building elements over multiple service lives. In ...

Curran Associates, Inc.2023

Building ventilation and outdoor air pollution: Implications for health, comfort and energy

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As humans spend most of their time indoors, indoor air quality (IAQ) significantly impacts their health. In parallel, building ventilation consumes significant energy, contributing to climate change. However, the relationships between the building ventilat ...

EPFL2023

Sustainable Construction in Humanitarian. Action Criteria for humanitarian building sustainability

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, Guillaume Habert, André Ullal

Humanitarian organisations have an interest in improving the sustainability of buildings that support the assistance provided to people affected by conflict and disaster. Yet, usual means of assessing building sustainability - e.g., labels such as LEED and ...

2022

In the Quest for Meaning: Revisiting Modernism’s debate around non-pedigreed architecture

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In architectural historiography, it is widely accepted that in the aftermath of WWII, Modern Architecture found itself in the trouble of redefining its quest, its meaning, and its purpose; a crisis of the Modern before the Post-Modern. Thus, in this partic ...

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Transmittance thresholds of electrochromic glazing to achieve annual low-glare work environments

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A recent study on the glare protection performance of electrochromic (EC) glazing showed that visible transmittance levels lower than 0.6% are necessary to achieve comfortable situations for sun positions, that were close to the central field of view. Howe ...

2022

Optimized market value of alpine solar photovoltaic installations

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Solar photovoltaic (PV) is the most rapidly expanding renewable resource worldwide. Yet, its full potential may be hindered by mismatches with market demand and correlated production profiles. In this research, we explore a case study of innovative PV plac ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Bridging the gap from test rooms to field-tests for human indoor comfort studies: A critical review of the sustainability potential of living laboratories

Dusan Licina, Mengdi Kong

Occupants play a key role in determining final building energy consumption. Empirical evidence must support occupants' modelling. Experiments on human responses to Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) are usually performed in test rooms or as in-field monito ...

ELSEVIER2022

Recycling of Load-Bearing 3D Printable Double Network Granular Hydrogels

Esther Amstad, Matteo Hirsch, Alvaro Lino Boris Charlet, Sanjay Phileas Schreiber

Sustainable materials, such as recyclable polymers, become increasingly important as they are often environmentally friendlier than their one-time-use counterparts. In parallel, the trend toward more customized products demands for fast prototyping methods ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Strategic factors to design the next generation of molecular water oxidation catalysts: Lesson learned from ruthenium complexes

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Energy conversion through sustainable means is essential to counter global warming and an urgent solution through a multidisciplinary approach is required. The temperature change stems from the emission of greenhouse gases largely contributed by burning fo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Les Cahiers de l'Ibois 3 / Ibois Notebook 3

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EPFL PRESS2022

Journal of Physics : Conference Series, CISBAT 2021 Carbon-neutral cities - energy efficiency and renewables in the digital era

CISBAT 2021 took place from 8 to 10 September 2021 online and at the Swiss Tech Convention Center on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland under the heading "Carbon Neutral Buildings - Energy Efficiency & Renewabl ...

IOP2021

District heating and cooling systems to integrate renewable energy in urban areas

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The building sector plays a crucial role in the ongoing energy transition due to its significant share of global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, especially when combined with the estimation that 70% of the world's population will be living ...

EPFL2021

Grid-Aware Layout of Photovoltaic Panels in Sustainable Building Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Luise Middelhauve, Francesco Baldi

In the context of increasing concern for anthropogenic CO2 emissions, the residential building sector still represents a major contributor to energy demand. The integration of renewable energy sources, and particularly of photovoltaic (PV) panels, is becom ...

2021