Solar energy in urban environment: How urban densification affects existing buildings

Energy Procedia

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 1559-1569

  Lobaccaro, Gabriele ^a   Frontini, Francesco ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dynamic simulation; Solar access; Solar Potential; Urban densification and preservation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898935924     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.02.176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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