Menu Home Programme Papers Oral > Wed 22nd Oct > Thurs 23rd Oct > Fri 24th Oct Posters UCD PLEA Sponsors Committees Contact Downloads Papers - Oral Friday 24th October 2008 STREAM 1 STREAM 2 STREAM 3 Zero Energy Building Sustainable Urban Design: The Urban Climate 1 The Role of Education Low Carbon Design Sustainable Urban Design: The Urban Climate 2 Environmental Theory & Architecture Zero Energy Building Regulation & Policy Sustainable Urban Design: The Urban Heat Island Renewable Energy Systems Closing Plenary Sean O'Laoire (available on the PLEA 2008 website) Zero Energy Building Back to index Session Chair: Paula Cadima 651 Towards Zero Energy Renovation: Ex-Post Building in Bolzano/Italy Alexandra Troi, EURAC research 745 Zero Energy House - Integrated Design and the Human Factor Despina Kyprianou Serghides, Cyprus University of Technology 692 Defining Zero Energy Buildings - A life cycle perspective Patxi Hernandez, University College Dublin 731 Sustainable Ecological Habitat: Towards Zero Energy Building José Roberto García Chávez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana 305 Certification and benchmarking in the Hotel Sector; do they actually reduce Global CO2 Emissions? Aoife Houlihan Wiberg, University of Cambridge 679 An Investigation to Design Strategies of Traditional Zero-Energy Water Reservoir Buildings in Iran: An Outlook to Innovative Passive Cooling System Farzin Haghparast Tabriz Islamic Art University Sustainable Urban Design: The Urban Climate 1 Back to index Session Chair: Darren Robinson 561 Seasonal impact of building densities and urban forest configurations on the thermal conditions in urban canyons. The case of Mendoza’s Metropolitan Area in Argentina Claudia Fernanda Martinez, Centro Científico Tecnológico - Conicet 118 Urban Climate – an experience from Hong Kong Chun Yiu Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong 217 Implementation of bioclimatic principles in the design of urban open spaces: microclimatic improvement for the cooling period of an open space adjacent to the sea Kleo Axarli,Aristoteles University Of Thessaloniki 663 Expression forms of climate adaptability urban design guidelines and relevant description methods of urban forms Yuan Huang, Laboratoire CERMA 491 Microclimate and Urban Form in Dubai Harsh Thapa, Foster and Partners 250 Urban climatology and its relevance to urban design Gerald Mills, University College Dublin The Role of Education Back to index Session Chair: Susan Roaf 198 Pioneering the 2010 Imperative in Studio: Carbon-Neutral Studios 2006 and Bruce Haglund, University of Idaho 329 The notion of medium in architectural teaching or, how would we teach architecture if air was water? Ricardo Martinez, The University of Nottingham 339 ‘Duaal’ learning program and Multidisciplinary master design project for sustainable climatic design Marinus Van Houten, Technical University Eindhoven 498 Integrated Sustainability and Environmental Design in an African Architecture Circulum: The Case of Uganda Mark Olweny. Uganda Martyrs University 592 Learning from practice: a model for integrating sustainable design in architectural education Maureen Trebilcock, Universidad del Bio-Bio 693 Engaging Architects and Architectural Students in the Spread of Global Warming Awareness and the Application of Renewable Energy Techniques in Our Communities Amira ElNokaly, University of Lincoln Low Carbon Design Back to index Session Chair: Fionn Stevenson 382 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ‘Passive House’ Student Residences - Roebuck Hall II Tony Rigg, Kavanagh Tuite 432 The Passivhaus standard in the UK: Is it desirable? Is it achievable? Rosa Schiano-Phan, University of Nottingham 536 Feasibility studies on the Development of the Zero-emission CO2 Residential Communities in China Nianxiong Liu, Tsinghua University 444 Passive house in traditional way? Andras Zold, Budapest University of Technology and Economics 135 The impact of carbon modelling on domestic building design Pieter de Wilde, University of Plymouth 299 Ilan Ramon-Elementary School, Jerusalem Ruth Lahav, R.Lahav Rigg architects town planners Sustainable Urban Design: The Urban Climate 2 Back to index Session Chair: Tony Rigg 601 Climate Analysis and Strategies for the Bioclimatic Design Process Heitor Da Costa Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - ufrgs 457 The cooling effect and water consumption of urban landscape strategies in a hot dry climate Evyatar Erell, Ben Gurion University 179 Plant Canopy Planting Design in Modifying Urban Thermal Environment: Theory and Guidelines Mohd Fairuz Shahidan, Cardiff University, United Kingdom 214 Cooling performance of green roofs Kleanthi Kanellopoulou, Oxford Brooks University 684 From the Modern toit jardins to the current green roofs: can a hit become classic? Aloisio Schmid, UFPR Environmental Theory & Architecture Back to index Session Chair: Hugh Campbell 151 The Architecture of Climate: Studies in environmental history, Smythson and the Smithsons Dean Hawkes, University of Cambridge 191 The Building of the Great Exhibition of 1851 - an Environmental Design Experiment Henrik Schoenefeldt, University of Cambridge 227 Energy-conscious landscape design: Synergy between ecosystem thinking and spatial planning Sven Stremke, Wageningen University and Research 540 Modern Architecture: rescuing passive principles for a temperate climate in Brazil Aloisio Schmid, UFPR 739 The Many Faces of the Wind – and its Catchers Susan Roaf, Heriot-Watt University 342 The New York Times Building ceramic rod façade: aesthetic vision and sustainability principles in high- profile contemporary architecture Simone Medio, The University of Lincoln Zero Energy Building Regulation & Policy Back to index Session Chair: Edna Shaviv 399 Moving the entire building sector towards low CO2 emissions Anna Pagès Ramon, Technical University of Catalonia – UPC 495 Driving change in the UK built environment: A review of the impacts of zero carbon buildings policy in the UK Tessa Parnell, Fulcrum Consulting 460 Zero Carbon by 2011: Delivering Sustainable Affordable Homes in Wales Matthew Jones, Design Research Unit Wales 378 Assessing the relationship between energy thermal regulations and passive comfort in buildings Vítor Leal, IDMEC – Institute of Mechanical Engineering / FEUP – Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto 178 Sustainable design for retail buildings Federico Montella ,Architectural Association School of Architecture Sustainable Urban Design: The Urban Heat Island Back to index Session Chair: Simos Yannas 330 Daytime urban heat island intensity in London during the winter season Giridharan Renganathan, Brunel University 396 An Analysis of the Urban Heat Island of Sheffield – the Impact of a Changing Climate Susan Lee, University of Sheffield 641 Influence of land use and occupation in the urban heat island Lucila Chebel Labaki, University of Campinas 588 Set up of a monitoring system for a preliminary evaluation of the Urban Heat Island in the town of Palermo Simona Culotta, DREAM University of Palermo 658 Ice Tea City or Climate 22 Julie Futcher, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Renewable Energy Systems Back to index Session Chair: Adrian Pitts 744 Interdisciplinary Partnering / Integrated Design: Georgia Tech’s Entry in Solar Decathlon 2007 Christopher Jarrett, Georgia Institute of Technology 153 Assessment on Non-technical Barriers for Widespread Adoption of Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPV) in Malaysian Urban Residential Sector Chin Haw Lim, Faculty Of Design And Architecture, University Putra Malaysia 628 Experimental Investigation of Fluid Flow Regime in Thermosyphon Heat-pipe Evacuated Tube Solar Water Heaters David Redpath, University of Ulster 735 Singapore’s first Zero-Energy-Building – Introduction and Evaluation of various BIPV Design proposals Anupama , National University of Singapore 458 Renewable Energy Sources in Small Communities Agapi Fylaktou-Cattaneo, Fylaktou-Cattaneo Copyright © 2008, UCD. 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