Towards comprehensive simulation and optimisation for more sustainable urban design

PLEA 2008 - Towards Zero Energy Building: 25th PLEA International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Robinson, Darren ^a   Giller, Christophe ^a   Haldi, Frédéric ^a   He, Fei ^a   Kämpf, Jérôme ^a   Kostro, André ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Optimisation; Simulation; Urban resource flows

Indexed keywords

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

BUILDING MODEL; DESIGN AND PLANNING; ENERGY DEMANDS; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; OPTIMISATIONS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE FLOWS; SIMULATION; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DESIGNERS; URBAN MODEL; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 85067715989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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