Menu Home Programme Papers Oral > Wed 22nd Oct > Thurs 23rd Oct > Fri 24th Oct Posters UCD PLEA Sponsors Committees Contact Downloads Papers - Oral Thursday 23rd October 2008 Keynote Presentation Chris Tweed (available on the PLEA 2008 website) Keynote Presentation Mario Cucinella (available on the PLEA 2008 website) STREAM 1 STREAM 2 STREAM 3 Innovative Materials, Components and Systems 1 Integrated Design Practice Showcase of Irish Architecture Innovative Materials, Components and Systems 2 Low Energy Design Strategy 1 Passive Design & Policy Daylight & Architecture 1 Low Energy Design Strategy 2 Poster Session 1 Daylight & Architecture 2 Low Energy Design Strategy 3 Poster Session 2 Innovative Materials, Components and Systems 1 Back to index Session Chair: J. R. Garcia Chavez 733 U-values for better energy performance of residential buildings Chris Hamans, Eurima - Rockwool International A.S. 676 Analyzing environmental performance of AAC blocks, strawbales and mud-plaster in hybrid wall construction Soofia Tahira Elias-Ozkan, Middle East Technical University 314 Influence of reflective coatings on the energy demand and thermal comfort in dwellings at Mediterranean latitudes Michele Zinzi, enea 321 Agricultural Waste Materials as Thermal Insulation for Dwellings in Thailand: Preliminary Results Satta Panyakaew, University of Sheffield 441 Applied design of an energy-efficient multi-layered membrane roofing system for climate-control of semi-permanent shelters Tim de Haas, Technical University Eindhoven Integrated Design Practice Back to index Session Chair: Koen Steemers 390 CASANAT - Reference Centre of Sustainable Building in Urban Area Miguel Sattler Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul 113 Integration of Architecture and Engineering: A simulation assisted design of zero-energy solar house in the United States Na Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 371 Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) VS Green Architecture (LEED) Edna Shaviv, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 654 Developing Integrated Energy Design as a standard practice of building design Afroditi Synnefa, NKUA 655 Towards closed cycles - New strategy steps based on the cradle to cradle approach Andy van den Dobbelsteen, Delft University of Technology Showcase of Irish Architecture Back to index Presentations to be made available on PLEA 2008 website after the conference Session Chair: Dean Hawkes Clonburris Sustainable Development South Dublin County Council York Street Housing Development Sean Harrington Architects Cork City Hall ABK Architects Wetlands Environment Centre and other projects Solearth Ecological Architecture Greening Public Buildings Office of Public Works Innovative Materials, Components and Systems 2 Back to index Session Chair: Martin de Witt 433 Construction methods which can achieve A3 rating at minimal extra cost James Pike, O’Mahony Pike Architects 548 Heat flux measurements and indoor temperatures in wood-based test cells Eduardo Kruger, Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana 582 A Photovoltaic cell coupled with a phase changing material heat storage system in hot climates Giuseppina Ciulla, Università degli Studi di Palermo 125 Simulation-based Assessment of the Prospects of Cool Paints in the Built Environment in the UK Pieter de Wilde, University of Plymouth 474 Lighting and Thermal Performance of Innovative Shading Devices: New Insights into their Aesthetics and Control in a Mediterranean Climate Vincent Buhagiar, University of Malta Low Energy Design Strategy 1 Back to index Session Chair: Brian Ford 383 Encapsulating sustainability principles for structural design of buildings Timothy J McCarthy, University of Wollongong 624 Effective architectural design strategies for thermal comfort and energy efficiency in two nursery schools in Chile Mario Ubillas, P. Catholic University of Chile 698 Sustainable Design Strategies in Industrial Building Refurbishments Manuel Correia Guedes, Instituto Superior Tecnico 738 Bioclimatic Designs of Glover Residence in Nagasaki, Japan - How it was developed in the 19th century for hot-humid climate? Yuichiro Kodama, Kobe Design University, Japan 218 Totnes Eco House: interaction between design and in-situ monitoring Jim Carfrae, University of Plymouth Passive Design & Policy Back to index Session Chair: Bruce Haglund 443 NAVAN CREDIT UNION ECO OFFICES: Post Occupancy Evaluation and Reflections Paul Leech, Paul Leech:GAIA ecotecture 409 Crossing Tresholds iLEEiD Demonstration House a Zero Energy House in Ireland Patrick Daly, BESRaC 524 Tools for Designing Zero Energy Homes: How Well Do They Work in Dublin Murray Milne, UCLA 106 Certification of Passive Houses: a Western European Overview Mlecnik Erwin, TU Delft OTB 746 Generic Repeat Design Schools Ireland Tony Sheppard, Department of Education & Science Daylight & Architecture 1 Back to index Session Chair: Paul Kenny 338 The Poetics of Sacred Light – a comparative study of the luminous environment in the Ronchamp Chapel and the Monastery of La Tourette Benson Lau, Nottingham University 224 Acceptability of screen reflections: lighting strategies for improving quality of the visual environment in classrooms of the future Tharinee Ramasoot, University of Sheffield 312 ANALYSIS OF URBAN OCCUPATION X DAYLIGHTING AVAILABILITY USING THE PREFERABLE SKY WINDOW PARAMETER Fernando Oscar Ruttkay Pereira, Federal University of Santa Catarina 462 Informing daylighting design with the Lightsolve approach: why and how Marilyne Andersen, MIT 306 SUSTAINABLE DAYLIGHTING DESIGN IN SOUTHERN EUROPE Antonio Santos, LNEC – Portuguese Nat. Lab. Civil Engineering 354 Composing with Light: An Inside-Out Evaluation of the Role of Intuition and Simulation throughout the Design Process Zigurds Greivulis Low Energy Design Strategy 2 Back to index Session Chair: Willi Weber 480 Risks and Solutions in the Practice of Building Retrofit Tamas Csoknyai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics 208 LOW ENERGY DESIGN STRATEGIES for DIFFERENT CLIMATES of TURKEY: Comparison of Traditional and Modern Samples A. Zerrin Yilmaz, Istanbul Technical University 621 Passive Environmental Control Methods for District and Building Scales on Taketomi Island Daishi Inoue, The University of Kitakyushu 317 Thermal performance of houses located in Florianópolis, Southern Brazil Enedir Ghisi Federal, University of Santa Catarina 212 Energy performance of energy conscious buildings; between design and reality… Leo Gommans, Technical University Delft 386 Energy efficient renovation of dwellings lessons learned Irena Kondratenko, ECN Daylighting & Architecture 2 Back to index Session Chair: Marilyne Anderson 319 Influences on lighting performance: the case of the 1908 Carnegie Public Library at Wednesbury, Birmingham, UK Oriel Prizeman University of Cambridge 718 Investigating the performance of anidolic zenithal openings under real conditions in Greece Katerina Tsikaloudaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 199 Displacing Electric Lighting with Optical Daylighting Systems Liliana Beltran, Texas A&M University 211 Objective and Subjective Criteria Regarding the Sunlight and Daylight in Classrooms Kleo Axarli, Aristoteles University Of Thessaloniki 520 LESO-SUNtool: Comprehensive simulation and optimisation for more sustainable urban design Darren Robinson, Solar Energy & Building Physics Lab, EPFL 350 New Zealand Daylight Code Compliance Tool: Development and Implementation Krystle Stewart, Victoria University of Wellington Low Energy Design Strategy 3 Back to index Session Chair: Despina Kyprianou Serghides 511 High Density, Low Energy: Achieving useful solar access for Dublin’s Multistory Apartment Developments Giles Bruce, BDSP Partnership 690 Form Follows the Sun; Hill County SEZ Office Complex Varun Kohli, SOM 197 The re-modelling of Ashburton Court: implementing natural ventilation in an existing urban building Peter Fisher Bennetts Associates Architects 401 Effect of Internal Gains on Thermal Comfort in Welsh Dwellings Eleni Ampatzi, Cardiff University 552 Towards sustainable construction in a developed and a developing country based on Life Cycle Assessment Oscar Ortiz, University of Rovira i Virgili 425 Development of an interdisciplinary approach to the assessment of occupant-(building-environment) interactions: Case study of an atrium housing block in warm climates Daoudi Nadia, Polytechnic School of Architecture and Urbanism Copyright © 2008, UCD. 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