Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: LT1
Lecture Theatre 1, G/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK
Date: Monday, 10/Dec/2018
9:00am
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9:30am
Opening Ceremony
Location: LT1
9:30am
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10:00am
Keynote 1: Speaker: Shaviv Edna
Location: LT1

Topic: Why PLEA buildings didn't glow with the Green Architecture - can it be changed?

10:00am
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10:30am
Keynote 2: Speaker: Lam Khee Poh
Location: LT1

Topic: Walk the Talk - Transforming Sustainability Education in a Living Campus

11:00am
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12:00pm
1ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Joana Carla Soares Goncalves
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Green Roofs for Cooling Tests in a Hot and Dry Climate

Laura Rodriguez, Pablo La Roche


11:15am - 11:30am

Investigating the Impact of Architectural Form and Wind Direction on the Performance of a Passive Downdraft Evaporative Cooling Tower in Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Abdullah Alshenaifi, Stephen Sharples


11:30am - 11:40am

Passive Downdraft Cooling Towers Outlet Conditions Prediction: Regression analysis on data collected from built prototypes

Omar Dhia Sadulah Al-Hassawi


11:40am - 11:50am

Improve Outdoor Comfort In Urban Spaces; Demonstration Of Dry Mist Strategies In Tropical Climates

Martin Engelhardt, Wolfgang Kessling, Daniel Kiehlmann

1:30pm
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2:30pm
2ST/1a: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Prof. Sergio Altomonte
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Convenience Store: The Unintended Large Energy Consumers In Urban Taiwan.

Chen-Yu Hung, Neveen Hamza


1:45pm - 2:00pm

Do Energy Performance Certifications Matter In Housing Selection? Evidence From Choice Experiments in Barcelona

Carlos Marmolejo-Duarte, Andrés Ampudia-Farias


2:00pm - 2:10pm

Oficity: A new time-efficient tool for Control Fenestration Systems design

Waldo Bustamante, Germán Molina, Daniel Uribe, Sergio Vera


2:10pm - 2:20pm

Eco Analysis Tool Indicators For The Quantification Of Energy Intensity Of Materials And Their Equivalent Gas Emissions.

Andrea Borges de Souza Cruz, Adriana Colafranceschi Durante, Luiz Guilherme de Siqueira

2:30pm
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3:30pm
2ST/1b: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Prof. Sergio Altomonte
 
2:30pm - 2:45pm

Assessing The Adaptability Of The Saudi Residential Building’s Energy Code For Future Climate Change Scenarios

Mohammed Awad Abuhussain, David Hou Chi Chow, Steve Sharples


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Study on Firewood Consumption Pattern in Dhading District of Nepal

Tika Ram Pokharel, Hom Bahadur Rijal, Masanori Shukuya


3:00pm - 3:10pm

Multiscale Parametric Urban Morphology and Energetic Optimization Framework - Case studies in Toulouse, France

Serge Faraut, Tathiane A.L. Martins, Luc Adolphe


3:10pm - 3:20pm

Energy Use Prediction of Buildings with Different Methods of Calculating SHGC of Shaded Windows

Kurva Dhonde, Rashmin Damle

4:00pm
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4:30pm
Keynote 3: Speaker: Ada Fung
Location: LT1

Topic: Green Buildings for Everyone, Everywhere: Dreams and Miracles

4:30pm
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6:00pm
3ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Christopher James Whitman
 
4:30pm - 4:45pm

Evaluation of Soil-cement Blocks: Response to Water Tightness Factor, Heat-shock Action

Giane de Campos Grigoletti, Rogério Antocheves de Lima, Luciani Somensi Lorenzi, Priscila Giorgi


4:45pm - 5:00pm

Vegetation As A Potential Tool For Improving Thermal Comfort And Exposure To Solar Radiation In The Streets Of Quito

Santiago Pozo, Grace Yepez, Nicolas Salmon


5:00pm - 5:10pm

Evaluating the Building Performance of an Office Building in London to Improve Indoor Thermal Comfort

Heba Elsharkawy, Sahar Zahiri


5:10pm - 5:20pm

Improving thermal condition of a townhouse through the use of low-cost ventilation system: A case study in Chonburi, Thailand

Pattaranan Takkanon


5:20pm - 5:30pm

Assessment of Thermal Comfort in Naturally Ventilated Factory Buildings

Swarali Sheth, Apeksha Gupta, Roshni Udyavar-Yehuda


5:30pm - 5:40pm

Adaptation measures of the existing residential buildings in Hanoi to counteract the effects of future urban warming

Andhang Rakhmat Trihamdani, Kento Sumida, Tetsu Kubota, Han Soo Lee, Satoru Iizuka


Date: Tuesday, 11/Dec/2018
9:00am
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9:30am
Keynote 4: Speaker: Kuo Ying Chao
Location: LT1

Topic: Design for the Circular Future

9:30am
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10:30am
4ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Carlos Javier Esparza Lopez
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Variations of Micro-climatic Conditions in Residential Neighbourhoods in Ho Chi Minh City

Hung Thanh Dang, Adrian Pitts


9:45am - 10:00am

The Partial Replacement of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) with Rice Husk Ash(RHA) to Stabilize Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs) for Affordable Building Materials in Nigeria

Adedamola Mobolanle Ojerinde, Adekunle M Ajao, Babatunde F Ogunbayo, Vicki Stevenson, Eshrar Latif


10:00am - 10:10am

Climatic Potential for Low-energy Cooling Strategies in India

Sanyogita Manu, Devna Vyas, Luciano Caruggi de Faria, Malcolm Cook, Rajan Rawal, Dennis Loveday, Charalampos Angelopoulos


10:10am - 10:20am

A Study on Climate Responsive Design of Open Residential Neighborhoods in a Southern Chinese City

Sitong Guo, Feng Yang

11:00am
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12:00pm
5ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Chao Yuan
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Improving Louvers with Indirect Evaporative Cooling as Heat Exchanger

Carlos Javier Esparza Lopez, Sergio Rafael Aguilar Lucas, Carlos Escobar del Pozo, Marcos Eduardo González Trevizo


11:15am - 11:30am

Retrofitting Strategies for Social Housing Buildings in Different Climate Conditions. The CORVI 1010-1020 Block Type in Three Chilean Cities

Waldo Bustamante, Cristian Schmitt, Victor Bunster, Paula Martinez, Francisco Chateau


11:30am - 11:40am

The Potential for PV Installation in Dense Urban Areas: An open-source model for analysis of urban form

Evyatar Erell, Adi Vulkan, Michael Dorman, Itai Kloog


11:40am - 11:50am

Matching Visual Impact, Solar Energy Production Potential and Energy System Optimization for an Enhanced Solar Integration

Pietro Florio, Silvia Coccolo, A.T.D. Perera, Jean-Louis Scartezzini

1:30pm
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3:30pm
6ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Prof. Vincent Michael Buhagiar
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

Integrating Hydroponics Into Office Buildings

Melanie Jans-Singh, Helen Gillard, Rebecca Ward, Ruchi Choudhary


1:45pm - 2:00pm

Neutral Global Warming Potential Target of Electricity Storage as Threshold for Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation in Buildings

Didier Vuarnoz, Thomas Jusselme


2:00pm - 2:15pm

Experimental Study On An Air-Phase-Change-Material Unit For Summer Thermal Comfort In A Naturally Ventilated Building

Maria De Los Angeles Ortega Del Rosario, Miguel Chen Austin, Denis Bruneau, Jean-Pierre Nadeau, Patrick Sébastien, Dimitri Jaupard


2:15pm - 2:30pm

Shadowing windows with BIPV blinds: delicate balance for office buildings in low latitudes.

Joára Cronemberger Ribeiro Silva, Estefanía Caamaño-Martín


2:30pm - 2:45pm

Urban Microclimate and Energy Performance: An Integrated Simulation Method

Daniela Maiullari, Martin Mosteiro-Romero, Marjolein Pijpers-van Esch


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Breaking The Glass Box: “Strategies to Reduce the Energy Consumption in 24/7 IT Offices in Delhi NCR”

Gunveer Singh, Jorge Rodríguez-Álvarez


3:00pm - 3:15pm

Summertime thermal comfort and adaptive behaviours in mixed-mode office buildings in Harbin, China

Ran Zhang, Cheng Sun, Steve Sharples, Yunsong Han, Hongrui Zhang

4:00pm
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4:30pm
Keynote 5: Speaker: Markus Roselieb
Location: LT1

Topic: Bamboo Power for Structural Design

4:30pm
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5:15pm
Discussion Forum
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Heide G. Schuster

Date: Wednesday, 12/Dec/2018
9:00am
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9:30am
Keynote 6: Speaker: Alexander Eriksson Furunes & Sudarshan Khadka
Location: LT1

Topic: Learning from Bayanihan/Dugnad

9:30am
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10:30am
7ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Dr. Joana Carla Soares Goncalves
 
9:30am - 9:45am

Development Of An Affordable Sensing And Monitoring System For Post-occupancy Building Performance Evaluation

Arihant Jain, Michael G. Apte, Sanyogita Manu, Maaz Barin Dixit


9:45am - 10:00am

Predicting Changes in Spatial Planning Using Artificial Neural Networks on the Basis of Satellite Images

Tomasz Jasinski, Anna Bochenek


10:00am - 10:10am

Numerical Analysis of the Improvement Effect on the Thermal Environment of University Buildings in a Humid and Hot City

Rumeng Yin, Jiang He, Yongjun Meng


10:10am - 10:20am

Thermal Performance of Laterite Quarry Scrap

Lakshmi Harikumar

11:00am
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12:00pm
8ST/1: Science & Technology
Location: LT1
Chair: Prof. Alfredo Fernandez Gonzalez
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Impact Of Inlet Water Temperature On Cooling From Misting Fans

Kai Zheng, Nyuk Hien Wong


11:15am - 11:30am

3DFOGTECH: Portable 3D Fog Water Station for Water-stressed Environments

Cristian Suau


11:30am - 11:40am

Old Houses for New Lifestyle, Guidelines for the displaced in East Ukraine conflict

Artem Oslamovskyi, Paula Cadima


11:40am - 11:50am

Effects Of Urban Morphology On Shading For Pedestrians Sky view Factor (SVF) As An Indicator Of Solar Access

Badiah Ghassan Masoud

1:30pm
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2:30pm
Keynote 7: Speaker: Gabriela Carrillo
Location: LT1

Topic: From Tepetate to Steel Blocks

2:00pm
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3:00pm
Closing Ceremony
Location: LT1