The early design stage of a building envelope: Multi-objective search through heating, cooling and lighting energy performance analysis

Applied Energy

Volumn 154, Issue , 2015, Pages 577-591

  Méndez Echenagucia, Tomás ^a,b   Capozzoli, Alfonso ^a   Cascone, Ylenia ^a   Sassone, Mario ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Building energy optimization; Building energy performance; Building envelope; Early design stage; Genetic algorithm; Multi objective optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUILDINGS; DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIGHTING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SOLAR BUILDINGS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUILDING DESIGN PROCESS; BUILDING ENERGY; BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION TOOLS; BUILDING ENVELOPES; EARLY DESIGN STAGES; HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS; NONDOMINATED SOLUTIONS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING; COOLING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY USE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEATING; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

FRANKFURT AM MAIN; GERMANY; HESSE; ITALY; NORWAY; OSLO [NORWAY]; PALERMO [SICILY]; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SICILY; TORINO [PIEDMONT];

EID: 84930959580     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.090     Document Type: Article

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