2024
The Effect of Rivers on Energy Balance at the Neighborhood Scale. A comparative analysis of four Rhodanian sites in France and Switzerland
2024-06-28. 37th Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2024 Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, June, 25-28, 2024.2023
Collaborative platform for EPFL campus building data
ENAC Research Day 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 7, 2023.Building Photovoltaics in time and space
ENAC Research Day 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 7, 2023.Influence of future climate scenarios on the sizing of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) installations. Case study of a new research-center building in Switzerland
2023-09-04. 18th International IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (BS2023), Shanghai, China, September 4-6, 2023. p. 2043 – 2050. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2023.1530.Autodigit-RAD: Towards an automation of the radon’s concentration dataflow in a new and innovative building
2023. CISBAT 2023 The Built Environment in Transition, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2023. p. 102008. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2600/10/102008.Taking a step back from glass towers facades to make them compatible with the 2050 targets
2023. CISBAT 2023 The Built Environment in Transition, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2023. p. 082036. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2600/8/082036.Logements collectifs datant du XXe siècle: (Ré)confort et (éco)énergie
2023.2022
Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) combined with hydrogen-based electricity storage system at building-scale towards carbon neutrality
2022-12-21. Central Europe towards Sustainable Building (CESB22 ), Prague, Czech Republic, July 4-6, 2022. DOI : 10.14311/APP.2022.38.0281.Sustainable Construction in Humanitarian. Action Criteria for humanitarian building sustainability
2022-11-22. 36th Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2022 Conference, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 23-25, 2022.Comparative approach of the environmental impact induced by different architectural visions of a new periurban neighbourhood
2022-11-22. 36th Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2022 Conference, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 23-25, 2022.Comparing thermal performance of standard humanitarian tents
Energy & Buildings. 2022-03-22. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112035.The influence of façade and space design on building occupants’ indoor experience
Journal of Building Engineering. 2022. Vol. 46, p. 103663. DOI : 10.1016/j.jobe.2021.103663.2021
Effectiveness of passive climate change adaptation measures in Switzerland: A climate-based analysis on natural ventilation and overheating risks reduction in dwellings
2021-09-08. CISBAT 2021 Carbon-neutral cities – energy efficiency and renewables in the digital era, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 8-10, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012151.Hydrogen-based electricity storage optimization on buildings by coupling thermal and photovoltaic electricity production towards carbon neutrality
2021-09-08. CISBAT 2021 Carbon-neutral cities – energy efficiency and renewables in the digital era, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 8-10, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012092.Virtual reality enabled building-data management through the combination of a fully integrated IFC-BIM model and an IoT-based building management system
2021-09-01. 17th International IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (BS2021), Bruges, Belgium, September 1-3, 2021. p. 3262-3267. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2021.30783.Texture mapping and IFC material retrievement for virtual reality applications
2021-09-01. 17th International IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (BS2021), Bruges, Belgium, September 1-3, 2021. p. 3129-3135. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2021.30541.A performance-driven simulation workflow for PV integration into the design process: application on an innovative building project in Switzerland
2021-09-01. 17th International IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (BS2021), Bruges, Belgium, September 1-3, 2021. p. 3180-3187. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2021.30636.Life cycle efficiency of solar shading systems: a proof-of-concept
2021-09-01. 17th International IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (BS2021), Bruges, Belgium, September 1-3, 2021. p. 797-804. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2021.30622.Exploring easy-implementable adaptation strategies to climate change scenarios of existing office buildings: a case study in the Swiss context
2021-09-01. 17th International IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (BS2021), Bruges, Belgium, September 1-3, 2021. p. 729-736. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2021.30221.2020
Energy renovation of the built heritage housing based on the living building challenge certification. Case study in Bresca (Spain)
2020-09-30. Rehabend 2020. Construction Pathology, Rehabilitation Technology and Heritage Management. 8th Euro-American Congress., Granada, Spain, September 27-30, 2020.Active renovation strategies with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). Application on an early 20th century multi-family building
2020-09-30. 8th Euro-American Congress. Rehabend 2020. Construction Pathology, Rehabilitation Technology and Heritage Management., Granada, Spain, September 27-30, 2020.Analysis and Visualisation of Decision Paths towards Reaching Environmental Impact Targets at Early-Design Stage
2020-09-03. 35th Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2020 Conference, La Coruña, Galicia, Spain, September 1-3, 2020. p. 1041-1046. DOI : 10.17979/spudc/9788497497947.Exploring the Robustness of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics Renovation Scenarios to Climate Change Perspectives: Results for a multi-family building in the Swiss context
2020-09-03. 35th Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2020 Conference, La Coruña, Galicia, Spain, September 1-3, 2020. p. 1233-1238. DOI : 10.17979/spudc/9788497497947.Dataset concerning the hourly conversion factors for the cumulative energy demand and its non-renewable part, and hourly GHG emission factors of the Swiss mix during a one-year period (2016 and 2017)
Data in Brief. 2020-04-15. Vol. 30, p. 105509. DOI : 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105509.Bâtiment du Smart Living Lab | Projet lauréat du MEP
Direction de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement de la Ville de Pully, Pully, Switzerland, February 19, 2020.Assessing the required life-cycle characteristics of electricity storage for ensuring sustainability in buildings
Architectural Science Review. 2020-06-02. Vol. 64, num. 1-2, p. 28-36. DOI : 10.1080/00038628.2020.1772193.Do energy performance certificates allow reliable predictions of actual energy consumption and savings? Learning from the Swiss national database
Energy And Buildings. 2020-10-01. Vol. 224, p. 110235. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110235.Assessing the gap between a normative and a reality-based model of building LCA
Journal Of Building Engineering. 2020-09-01. Vol. 31, p. 101454. DOI : 10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101454.Office densification effects on comfort, energy, and carbon lifecycle performance: An integrated and exploratory study
Sustainable Cities and Society. 2020-01-14. Vol. 55, p. 102032. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102032.Surveying the environmental life-cycle performance assessments: Practice and context at early building design stages
Sustainable Cities and Society. 2020-01-01. Vol. 52, p. 101879. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2019.101879.2019
Strategic environmental urban planning – A contextual approach for defining performance goals and informing decision-making
Building and Environment. 2019-10-22. Vol. 168, p. 106448. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106448.Life-Cycle Assessment as a decision-support tool for early phases of urban planning: evaluating applicability through a comparative approach
2019-09-11. Sustainable Built Environment Conference , Graz, Austria, September 11-14, 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012030.Environmental impact assessment of Swiss residential archetypes: a comparison of construction and mobility scenarios
Energy Efficiency. 2019-08-01. Vol. 12, num. 6, p. 1661-1689. DOI : 10.1007/s12053-019-09811-0.The smart living lab at PLEA 2018 Conference, Hong Kong: “Neutral GWP target of electricity storage as threshold for GHG mitigation in buildings
smart living lunch 2019: #1, smart living lab, blueFACTORY, Fribourg, 2019-02-06.The smart living lab and its flagship building
Exploring – Research-Driven Building Design; Zürich, Switzerland: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.Low-carbon thermal inertia
Exploring. Research-driven Building Design. Towards 2050; Zürich: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.Lessons learned from a living lab research process
EXPLORING / Research-driven Building Design. Towards 2050; Zürich: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.A data-driven approach for lifecycle performance
EXPLORING / Research-driven Building Design. Towards 2050; Zürich: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.Research at the service of building design
Exploring / Research-driven Building Design. Towards 2050; Zürich: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.Design guidance from a Data-Driven LCA-Based Design method and tool prototype
2019. 16th International Conference of the “International Building Performance Simulation Association” (IBPSA) Building Simulation, Rome, Italy, September 2-4, 2019. p. 1334-1341. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2019.210403.Improving life cycle-based exploration methods by coupling sensitivity analysis and metamodels
Sustainable Cities and Society. 2019-01-01. Vol. 44, p. 70-84. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2018.09.032.2018
Findings from a survey on the current use of life-cycle assessment in building design
2018-12-10. PLEA 2018 – Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit, Hong-Kong, December 10-12, 2018.ECABO tool: Energy and Carbon Assessment of Building in Operation
Build and Connect, Strasbourg, France, 2018, 28-30 November.Stratégie de rénovation active pour le parc bâti suisse. Cas d’étude à Neuchâtel
Build & Connect – Technologies et pratiques pionnières du bâtiment, Strasbourg, France, November 28-29, 2018.Setting contextual life-cycle objectives in urban design: requirements for a decision-support method
2018-09-17. Second International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment (SDBE), London, UK, September 12-13, 2018.Usability assessment of building performance simulation tools: a pilot study
2018-09-12. Second International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment – SDBE 2018, September 12-13, 2018.An integrative approach for embodied energy: Towards an LCA-based data-driven design method
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 2018-02-27. Vol. 88, p. 123-132. DOI : 10.1016/j.rser.2018.02.036.Method of identifying technical design solutions
US10635842; US2018011949; EP3267337.
2018.Le courant consommé la nuit est chargé en CO2 de charbon allemand
2018-12-13.Workshop BEEP Camp for Students
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 16-22 December 2018.Energy efficiency trends in European buildings
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 2018-12-19.Integrated design in relation to the overheating risk, thermal comfort and energy demand in hot climates
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 2018-12-20.ECABO software: Energy and Carbon Assesment of Buildings in Operation
Integrating hourly life-cycle energy and carbon emissions of energy supply in buildings
Dataset concerning the hourly conversion factors for the cumulative energy demand and its non-renewable part, and hourly GHG emission factors of the Swiss mix during a one year period (2015-2016).
Data in Brief. 2018-12-09. Vol. 21, p. 1026-1028. DOI : 10.1016/j.dib.2018.10.090.Neutral global warming potential target of electricity storage as threshold for greenhouse gas emission mitigation in buildings
2018-12-10. Passive and Low Energy Architecture conference (PLEA 2018): Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit, Hong-Kong, December 10-12, 2018. p. 1217.Integrating hourly life-cycle energy and carbon emissions of energy supply in buildings
Sustainable Cities and Society. 2018-08-29. num. 43, p. 305-316. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2018.08.026.Specific Environmentally-conscious Targets for Urban Planning – A method to inform the decision-making process
20ème séminaire sur l’état de la recherche – Recherche sur le bâtiment dans le contexte énergétique et environnemental, Zurich, Switzerland, September 6-7, 2018.Temporal variations in the primary energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of electricity provided by the Swiss grid
Energy. 2018-07-24. num. 161, p. 573-582. DOI : 10.1016/j.energy.2018.07.087.On the Influence of Thermal Mass and Natural Ventilation on Overheating Risk in Offices
Buildings. 2018-03-22. Vol. 8, num. 4, p. 47. DOI : 10.3390/buildings8040047.Development and validation of an intelligent algorithm for synchronizing a low-environmental-impact electricity supply with a building’s electricity consumption
2018. The 4th International Conference on Renewable Energy Technologies (ICRET 2018), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 16-18, 2018.Life cycle efficiency ratio: a new performance indicator for a life cycle driven approach to evaluate the potential of ventilative cooling and thermal inertia
Energy and Buildings. 2018. Vol. 163, p. 22-33. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.12.010.2017
The Swiss grid, its carbon footprint and energy use
IIMT (International Institute for the Management of Technologies) invited talk, Université de Fribourg, 2017-02-23.Visualization techniques for heterogeneous and multidimensional simulated building performance data sets
2017. SDBE 2017 – International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment, London – UK, December 20-21, 2017. p. 971-982.Preventing overheating in offices through thermal inertial properties of compressed earth bricks: A study on a real scale prototype
Energy and Buildings. 2017-12-01. Vol. 156, num. 1 December 2017, p. 281-292. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.09.070.“Our Inherent Desire for Control”: a Case Study of Automation’s Impact on the Perception of Comfort
Energy Procedia. 2017. num. 122, p. 925-930. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.414.On the necessity of improving the environmental impacts of furniture and appliances in net-zero energy buildings
Science of The Total Environment. 2017. Vol. 596-597, p. 405-416. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.107.Smart Living Building Research Program – Executive Summary
2017
Le bâtiment à énergie positive – un aperçu
Bâtiments à énergie positive; energie-cluster.ch, HEIG-VD, Centre St. Roch, Suisse, 18 mai 2017.2016
Building 2050 – Scientific concept and transition to the experimental phase
2016
Graphical representation of the smart living building research program
Building2050 Scientific Workshop, Gruyères, Switzerland, October 2016.Réussir un suivi énergétique efficace et rentable de son bâtiment : outils, limites et facteurs de succès
Build & Connect: TECHNOLOGIES ET PRATIQUES PIONNIÈRES DANS LE BÂTIMENT DURABLE, Strasbourg, France, Novembre 22-23, 2016.Introduction to the smart living building concept
smart living talks, Fribourg, October 7, 2016.smart living building – Living the Future
2016
LCA as key factor for implementation of inertia in a low carbon performance driven design: the case of the smart living building in Fribourg, Switzerland
2016. Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, June 15-17, 2016.Impact targets as guidelines towards low carbon buildings: Preliminary concept
2016. PLEA, Los Angeles, USA, July 11-13, 2016.Introduction of a dynamic interpretation of building LCA results: the case of the smart living (lab) building in Fribourg, Switzerland
2016. Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Conference, Zurich, June 15-17, 2016.Towards a pre-design method for low carbon architectural strategies
2016. PLEA2016, Los Angeles, USA, July 11-13, 2016.Studying the Dynamic Relationship between Energy Supply Carbon Content and Building Energy Demand
2016. PLEA 2016 Los Angeles – 36th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture. Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments, Los Angeles, California, USA, July 11-13, 2016.2015
Establishment of a scientific concept suitable for the smart living building
smart living lunch, smart living lab, blueFACTORY, Fribourg, 2015-11-24.Building 2050 – Research program
2015-03-06
Building 2050 – State-of-the-arts and preliminary guidelines
2015