Multi-objectives optimization of Energy Efficiency Measures in existing buildings

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 95, Issue , 2015, Pages 57-69

  Penna, Paola ^a   Prada, Alessandro ^a   Cappelletti, Francesca ^b   Gasparella, Andrea ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building retrofit; Dynamic simulation; Energy Efficiency Measures; Multi objective optimization; nZEBs

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RETROFITTING; THERMAL COMFORT;

BUILDING RETROFITS; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; DYNAMIC SIMULATION TOOL; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION MINIMIZATION; INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; MULTI-OBJECTIVES OPTIMIZATION; NZEBS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84928940340     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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