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Sustainable
Building for
a Cleaner
Environment
Selected Papers from the World
Renewable Energy Network's Med
Green Forum 2017
Innovative Renewable Energy
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Ali Sayigh
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Ali Sayigh
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Sustainable Building
for a Cleaner Environment
Selected Papers from the World Renewable
Energy Network’s Med Green Forum 2017
Editor
Ali Sayigh
World Renewable Energy Congress
Brighton, UK
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Introduction
This is the fourth WREN-WREC Med Green Forum and the second one to be held
in Florence, teaming with ABITA from the University of Florence and ETA from
Renewable Energy Florence.
We received 87 contributions from 50 countries and several students’ posters.
There were also presentations from well-known Italian industries in the built
environment.
The three organizations, WREN, ABITA, and ETA, worked together to highlight
the importance of sustainable buildings and renewable energy especially in the
regions of abundant sunshine – the Mediterranean Zone.
I thank all the sponsors of this event, especially ISESCO, Springer, and the
Department of Architecture, University of Florence, for hosting the Med Green
Forum No. 4. We are very grateful to the technical committee and organizing com-
mittee for their excellent efforts in making this a successful meeting.
This area of combining buildings with energy conservation, efficiency, and
renewable energy is the only way to combat climate change and save energy. The
Forum offered a great opportunity where participants could network during the
coffee and lunch times, and in the evenings.
This Proceeding consists of 39 papers from 41 countries, covering all the follow-
ing areas:
1. Sustainable architecture
2. Building construction management and environment
3. Ventilation and air movement in buildings
4. Renewable energy in building and cities
5. Eco materials and technology
6. Policy education and finance
7. Sustainable transport
8. Urban agriculture and soilless urban green space
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vi Introduction
To encourage readers to read papers from every category, the papers in this
Proceeding have not been subdivided into topic sections. We hope that architects,
builders, energy specialists, and researchers in the built environment will find all
papers interesting and stimulating.
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Contents
1 P roposing a New Method for Fenestration Shading Design
in Prefabricated Modular Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Seyedehmamak Salavatian
2 E ffectiveness of Occupant Behavioral Ventilation Strategies
on Indoor Thermal Comfort in Hot Arid Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Ali Sedki, Neveen Hamza, and Theo Zaffagnini
3 E ffectiveness of Materials, Technologies, and Renewable Energy
in Educational Buildings Through Cluster Analysis of Energy
Retrofitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Francesco Asdrubali, Laura Calcagnini, Luca Evangelisti,
Claudia Guattari, and Paola Marrone
4 R enewable Energy in Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Carlos Labriola
5 W ind Energy Potential Research in a Low Building
within an Urban Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Jorge Lassig, Claudia Palese, Juan Valle Sosa, Ubaldo Jara,
and Carlos Labriola
6 N atural Light in Architecture: Use Inspired
by the Constructive Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Fabio G. S. Giucastro
7 T he Cost of Building to the nearly-Zero Energy Building
Standard: A Financial Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Shane Colclough, John Mernagh, Derek Sinnott, Neil J. Hewitt,
and Philip Griffiths
8 P olicy of Intensification, Diversification, Conservation,
and Indexation in Pursuing Sustainable Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Koesmawan
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9 The Problem of Education in Developing Renewable Energy . . . . . . 95
Ellya Marliana Yudapraja
10 Winter Performance of Certified Passive Houses in a Temperate
Maritime Climate: nZEB Compliant? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Shane Colclough, Philip Griffiths, and Neil J. Hewitt
11 A Parametric Tool for Assessing Optimal Location of Buildings
According to Environmental Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Giacomo Chiesa and Mario Grosso
12 Methodology of Solar Project Managing Through All Stages
of Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Andrejs Snegirjovs, Peteris Shipkovs, Kristina Lebedeva,
Galina Kashkarova, and Dimitry Sergeev
13 Computational BIPV Design: An Energy Optimization
Tool for Solar Façades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Omid Bakhshaei, Giuseppe Ridolfi, and Arman Saberi
14 Feasibility Study of a Low Carbon House in the United Kingdom . . 153
Timothy Aird and Hossein Mirzaii
15 Why Do We Need to Reduce the Carbon Footprint in UAE? . . . . . . . 165
Riadh AL-Dabbagh
16 Urban Farming in the Era of Crisis in Greece: The Case Study
of the Urban Garden of Ag. Anargiri-Kamatero and Fili . . . . . . . . . . 179
Konstadinos Abeliotis and Konstadinos Doudoumopoulos
17 Resilient Urban Design. Belgrade and Florence:
Reconnect the Waters to the City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Chiara Odolini
18 Strategic Sustainable and Smart Development Based
on User Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Shahryar Habibi and Theo Zaffagnini
19 High|Bombastic: Adaptive Skin Conceptual Prototype
for Mediterranean Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Omid Bakhshaei, Giuseppe Ridolfi, and Arman Saberi
20 Quality of Healthcare: A Review of the Impact of the Hospital
Physical Environment on Improving Quality of Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Jazla Fadda
21 Enhancing Indoor Air Quality for Residential Building
in Hot-Arid Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Ghanim Kadhem Abdul Sada and Tawfeeq Wasmi M. Salih
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22 Performance of Solar Window Film with Reference to Energy
Rationalizing in Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Kamil M. Yousif and Alan Ibrahim Saeed
23 Visualizing the Infrared Response of an Urban Canyon
Throughout a Sunny Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Benoit Beckers, José Pedro Aguerre, Gonzalo Besuievsky,
Eduardo Fernández, Elena García Nevado, Christian Laborderie,
and Raphaël Nahon
24 Meta-Design Approach to Environmental Building Programming
for Passive Cooling of Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Giacomo Chiesa and Mario Grosso
25 Urban and Architectural Sustainability in the Restoration
of Iranian Cities (Strategy and Challenges): Case Study
of Soltaniyeh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Nazila Khaghani
26 Influence of the Period of Measurements on Wind Potential
Assessment for a Given Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
H. Nfaoui and A. Sayigh
27 Integration Strategies of Luminescent Solar Concentrator
Panels: A Case Study in Florence, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Lucia Ceccherini Nelli and Giada Gallo Afflitto
28 Photovoltaic and Thermal Solar Concentrator Integrated
into a Dynamic Shading Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Giulia Chieli and Lucia Ceccherini Nelli
29 A University Master’s Course and Training Programme for Energy
Managers and Expert in Environmental Design in Italy . . . . . . . . . . 347
Marco Sala, Lucia Ceccherini Nelli, and Alessandra Donato
30 A Project for the NZero-Foundation in the South of Italy . . . . . . . . . 361
Lucia Ceccherini Nelli, Vincenzo Donato, and Danilo Rinaldi
31 Planning Without Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Adolfo F. L. Baratta, Laura Calcagnini, Fabrizio Finucci,
and Antonio Magarò
32 Production of ZnO Cauliflowers Using the Spray
Pyrolysis Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Shadia J. Ikhmayies
33 Evaluating Deep Retrofit Strategies for Buildings
in Urban Waterfronts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Nicola Strazza, Piero Sdrigotti, Carlo Antonio Stival, and Raul Berto
