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Green Walls, a Critical Review: Knowledge Gaps, Design Parameters, Thermal Performances and Multi-Criteria Design Approaches by Ascione, Fabrizio, De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Mastellone, Margherita, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…The green wall is an engineered technology for stormwater management and climate change mitigation at the urban level. At the building scale, these energy…”
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Predicting Building Energy Demand and Retrofit Potentials Using New Climatic Stress Indices and Curves by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Mauro, Gerardo Maria, Ruggiero, Silvia, Villano, Francesca

“…Building energy requalification in Italy and Europe has been much discussed in recent years due to the high percentage of existing buildings with poor energy…”
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Effect of HVAC’s Management on Indoor Thermo-Hygrometric Comfort and Energy Balance: In Situ Assessments on a Real nZEB by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Gigante, Antonio, Festa, Valentino, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…This paper proposes the analysis of real monitored data for evaluating the relationship between occupants’ comfort conditions and the energy balance inside an…”
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Evaluation of Comfort Models Considering the Peculiarities of Hospitalization: Bedding, Clothing and Reduced Activity of Patients by Ruggiero, Silvia, Tariello, Francesco, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…The study of thermo-hygrometric comfort in hospitals involves several factors: the presence of different subjects: patients, operators, visitors; different…”
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The incidence of smart windows in building energy saving and future climate projections by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Festa, Valentino, Gigante, Antonio, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…The ongoing climate crisis leads to develop smart communities with zero net emissions, and the Responsive Building Envelopes (RBEs) have a crucial role for the…”
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Analysis of COVID-19 crisis-related building energy retrofit incentives in Italy by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Festa, Valentino, Gigante, Antonio, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to an economic crisis of the construction industry and to an increasing of energy consumption in the residential sector…”
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Numerical Optimization for the Design of Geopolymer Concrete Walls with Phase Change Materials in the Mediterranean Climate by Ascione, Fabrizio, De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Del Regno, Nicoletta, De Rossi, Filippo, Gigante, Antonio, Ruggiero, Silvia

“…The adoption of phase change materials (PCMs) is a promising solution for the improvement of building energy performances and indoor comfort, and the…”
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Experimental Comparison of Heating Emitters in Mediterranean Climate by Masi, Rosa Francesca De, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…The need to increase the level of quality of indoor environments requires an extremely accurate definition of the microclimatic requisites to guarantee, in the…”
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Application of light shelves in a refurbished student dormitory: Energy, lightings and comfort aspects by Assimakopoulos, Margarita-Niki, De Masi, Rosa Francesca, de Rossi, Filippo, Ferrante, Annarita, Fotopoulou, Anastasia, Papadaki, Dimitra, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…The transparent elements of the building envelope have a crucial role not only in term of heat and mass transfers control, but also for natural light…”
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A singular observation of a giant benign Brenner tumor of the ovary by Ruggiero, Silvia, Ripetti, Valter, Bianchi, Antonella, La Vaccara, Vincenzo, Alloni, Rossana, Coppola, Roberto

“…Introduction Brenner tumors are rare transitional cell tumors of the ovary. They are usually benign neoplasms, of solid or solid-cystic structure and small…”
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Multi-layered wall with vacuum insulation panels: Results of 5-years in-field monitoring and numerical analysis of aging effect on building consumptions by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…•Aging problem for a wall package with vacuum insulation panels is studied.•Measures of heat flux and temperatures for 5 years are compared.•Experimental and…”
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Optimization of building envelope design for nZEBs in Mediterranean climate: Performance analysis of residential case study by Ascione, Fabrizio, De Masi, Rosa Francesca, de Rossi, Filippo, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…•Dynamic simulation tool and multi-objective optimization algorithm are combined.•Design criteria for residential nZEB in Mediterranean climate are…”
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Hygro-thermal performance of an opaque ventilated façade with recycled materials during wintertime by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…[Display omitted] •The hygro-thermal behavior of a ventilated façade is studied in wintertime.•A large test room in Benevento with humid Mediterranean climate…”
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Impact of weather data and climate change projections in the refurbishment design of residential buildings in cooling dominated climate by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Gigante, Antonio, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…•Weather files defined with different methodology and dataset are compared.•Projections of climate changes are considered in the construction of weather…”
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Improving the building stock sustainability in European Countries: A focus on the Italian case by Ascione, Fabrizio, De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Mastellone, Margherita, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…COVID-19 pandemic has caused an economic crisis, and also the building sector has suffered consequences. Indeed, an increase in the building energy…”
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Impacts of the 4.5 and 8.5 RCP global climate scenarios on nearly zero energy building performance: Sensitivity analysis about operative conditions of insulation materials and PV system degradation by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Gigante, Antonio, Ruggiero, Silvia, Russo, Alessandro

“…The paper gives a directive toward assessment of resilience of building designed to comply the nearly zero energy standard in the current conditions and also…”
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The role of windows on building performance under current and future weather conditions of European climates by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Festa, Valentino, Gigante, Antonio, Ruggiero, Silvia, Peter Vanoli, Giuseppe

“…•Incidence of windows design on energy and visual comfort is studied under climate change.•The case study is an office building located in representative…”
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Geopolymer-based insulated wall incorporating construction and demolition waste: Experimental assessment of thermo-physical behavior by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Ruggiero, Silvia, Russo, Alessandro, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…•The experimental thermal characterization of geopolymer-based insulated wall is proposed.•The prototype incorporates 70% of construction and demolition waste…”
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Experimental and numerical approach for the evaluation of PV-system performance on energy and environmental behavior of nearly zero energy buildings: Case study in Mediterranean climate by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Gigante, Antonio, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…Nowadays, the performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems has strategic role for satisfying the standard of net or nearly zero energy building with in-situ…”
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Environmentally friendly opaque ventilated façade for wall retrofit: One year of in-field analysis in Mediterranean climate by De Masi, Rosa Francesca, Festa, Valentino, Ruggiero, Silvia, Vanoli, Giuseppe Peter

“…•An innovative ventilated façade with recycled materials is characterized.•One-year monitoring in Mediterranean climate and LCA are proposed.•The thermal…”
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