Daylight enhancement and lighting retrofits in educational buildings

ERHARDT KESTEN, Dilay | TERECİ, Ayşegül

According to the International Energy Agency, lighting makes up about 19% (~3000 TWh) of the global electric consumption. Often the lighting energy savings cannot be provided in new buildings with new lighting systems. Therefore, major potential in lighting energy savings can be found in the existing building stock (older than 25 years). Educational environments such as schools, colleges, universities /campuses cover a significant percentage of the existing non-residential building stock. This study focuses on lighting solutions for the retrofitting of educational buildings, with a particular ...Daha fazlası

Konferans Bildirisi 2015 Living and Learning: Research for a Better Built Environment: 49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 7 Görüntülenme

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Parametric Analysis Method for Urban Energy Transformation Projects

TERECİ, Ayşegül | ERHARDT KESTEN, Dilay

In tandem with industrialization, migration from rural to urban has caused unstructured and unplanned cities. On the other hand the needs of people in the cities have begun to change according to overpopulation, new technologies and life styles. This change results in growing energy demand at the cities and the governmental authorities and municipal services has to respond it. Urban transformation projects are given as a solution for struggling with these problems and reshaping the cities. Energy, one of the main topic on the urban transformation projects, contains the efficient resource and e ...Daha fazlası

Konferans Bildirisi 2014 PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) 7 Görüntülenme