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Dr Carlos Oliveira Augusto (CITAD - Centro de Investigaçao em Território, Arquitectura e Design. UniversidadeLusíada)
Buildings account for 40% of total energy consumption in the European Union. The indica-tions are that this will increase, simply because of growth in the number of buildings over time. It is also important to have in account that bioclimatic design and building engineering physics issues, directly related to energy performance and to well-being of the occupants, should be properly...
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Dr Erwin M. Schau (InnoRenew Centre of Excellence)
The construction industry accounts for 15 % of all greenhouse gas emissions. During their use phase, buildings use 40 % of the total energy consumption, which contributes significantly to air pollution and other environmental impacts. While the energy consumption during the use phase is predicted to decrease as efficient buildings, like zero and near zero energy buildings, become more common,...
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Dr Dennis Jones (Lulea University of Technology)
Wood modification (chemical, thermal, impregnation) represents an assortment of innovative processes continually being adopted in the wood protection sector. COST Action FP1407 (Understanding wood modification through an integrated scientific and environmental impact approach - ModWoodLife) was initiated in 2015, with its 4-year programme aiming to investigate modification processing and...
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24. Appreciation/acceptance of traditional and modern appearance of materi-als and products by usersDr Veronika Kotradyová (Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)
Paper deals with phenomena of taste for modern or traditional approach by creating built environment and its elements with particular surfaces. It is related to the research project Identity- SK- common platform of design, architecture and social sciences, where is a main goal to explore regional identity within socio-cultural sustainability and well-being and the possibilities of its...
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Ms Urška Smrke (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology)
Residential satisfaction is a frequently studied topic in recent decades as it can offer important insights into the quality of residential environment, beneficial both from theoretical perspective as well as for practical purposes. One of the most prominently used methods of measuring residential satisfaction is the use of self-assessment questionnaires measuring satisfaction by assessing...
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Anna Sandak (InnoRenew CoE)
Plants evolved during 460 million years to a constantly changing environment and became well adapted to different climatic conditions (Koch and Barthlott, 2009). Due to their immobility as individuals, plants are an excellent biological material for detecting climate phenomena. Living organisms use smart, optimized and elegant solutions to survive, thanks to continuous selection and mutation...
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Benedikt Neyses (Division of Wood Science and Engineering, Luleå University of Technology)
The densification, i.e. transverse compression of solid wood can lead to improvements in the mechanical properties, and this opens up new applications for low-density wood species, in particular. For the past one hundred years, many efforts have been made to mass-produce densified wood products, but despite being available on the market, they still are niche products with annual production...
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Marco Fellin (CNR-IVALSA)
Earthquakes are an unpredictable potentially deadly phenomena. Buildings anti-seismic technology can effectively reduce the risk of injuries, however the anti-seismic performances of many buildings in Italy and other countries are still weak. Lack of funds, logistics and bureaucracy are still delaying the adoption of this technology on large scale. As a result citizens spend hours everyday in...
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Mrs Eva Prelovšek Niemelä (InnoRenew CoE)
Temporary housing solutions are needed in civil protection for offering shelter to people in disaster-affected areas and other displaced persons. Often, shipping containers are used for this purpose, and while some studies highlighted the positive aspects (Zhang and Elmpt, 2014; Hong 2017) and their sustainability (Islam et al., 2016), others have pointed out the need for better and more...
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Mr Aarne Johannes Niemelä Niemelä
The natural environment encourages learning and playing. Many studies have proven that children can develop more complex and creative play in nature due to diversity of materials and objects in comparison to indoors or standardized playgrounds (Kos, 2013). Through play, children learn about themselves and the physical, social and cultural environment in which they live. This develops empathy...
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Michael Mrissa (InnoRenew CoE)
Collecting sensor data in buildings raises several challenges, such as handling sensor hardware and platform heterogeneity, the distributed nature of sensors, network vulnerability to disconnections, and optimization of resource usage (network, processing power, etc.).
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Slobodan Peulić (University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy)
Sustainable approaches in retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency are becoming inevitable in the time of global climate change. Retrofitting existing building stock can be effective in reducing global energy consumption and decreasing resource over-exploitation. However, less developed EU member states and neighboring developing countries show reluctance towards healthy and renewable...
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Dr Anja Jutraz (Asist. dr.)
INTRODUCTION. It is important how we design, maintain and renovate school environments, as they are designed for children, who are the most vulnerable population and they spend in school on average around 8 hours per day. Quality school environment influences different dimensions of our health. Through the entire life cycle of the building following parameters have to be considered: noise,...
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Mrs Faksawat Poohphajai (InnoRenew CoE)
Wood is a versatile, natural and environmentally friendly material that has attracted attention for sustainable building for many years. However, wood is susceptible to deterioration during weathering and biological attacks, and, therefore, wood products require protective measures to extend their service life in outdoor applications. For sustainable use, the environmental impact of such...
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Ms Hajnalka Juhász (Hungary, University of Pécs, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology)
The biggest stress on the sustainability of our environment is caused by the construction industry. More than 30% of the global pollution emissions are caused by the development of the built environment without ecological awareness. It is time for the conscious design process, to shape our built environment in a sustainable and humane way, in accordance with nature. The creative students and...
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Dr René Herrera (Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department, University of the Basque Country)
The hydrophilic nature of wood is based on its structural anisotropy and its strong affinity to hydroxyl functional groups (mainly due to the polysaccharides present in its structure), making wood very reactive with water. The environmental factors can cause instability to the wood matrix and its deterioration, thus, several wood modification techniques have been developed to ensure its...
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Dr Izabela Burawska-Kupniewska (Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW)
The classification of logs in the forest is the first stage in the evaluation of wood's technical quality and serves as the point of departure for subsequent tasks needed to trade and evaluate wood. For ages, wood quality was assessed without the use of advanced technologies, and only by visual inspection (Berglund et al. 2015). In reality, many properties of wood are mutually correlated,...
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Dr Veerapandian Ponnuchamy (Innorenew CoE)
Cellulose is one of the major abundant biopolymers on earth, roughly half of all plants constitute of it. It is composed of linearly dispersed glucose polymers that are strongly bonded through hydrogen bonds. Two distinct phases of cellulose can be seen in a typical wood, namely crystalline and amorphous region. The ratio of crystalline and amorphous region controls the typical properties such...
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Stefania Fortino (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd,)
Renewable wooden products exposed to continuously variable outdoor climates are strongly affected by the moisture levels in the material. High moisture contents accumulated in wood dur-ing long periods, in combination with favorable temperatures, represent a risk for the durability of thermally modified wood products because of the decay development. In this context, numer-ical simulations can...
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Ms Dóra Zetz (Marcel Breuer Doctoral School, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology)
Office buildings represent one of the most common public building with extremely high cool-ing energy demand and corresponding negative environmental impact in Central Europe. Due to the high wall-window ratio of this building type, the indoor thermal and visual comfort suffers, as a consequence of characteristic summer overheating and winter heat loss.
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The current office building design... -
Mr Gregor Lavrič (Pulp and Paper Institute, Ljubljana)
UV LED printing technology can be used for printing directly on wood which enables new options for unique printed wooden elements in the interior and exterior design. With the appropriate design and processing technology all kinds of wood samples and end products (doors, furniture elements etc.) can be enriched and their added value can be raised. Depending on the application’s end use, a pre...
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Dr Zsolt Benkő (University of Szeged, Department of Technology)
Smart home systems can make the living more comfortable. Moreover they may provide ways to save energy, thus they can help to achieve sustainable buildings. The possibilities are wide and the energy savings can be as high as 45%. To achieve such high values the capabilities of the smart home system must be known to the person using it. The Department of Technology possesses a working smart...
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Dean Lipovac (InnoRenew CoE & UP IAM)
It has been shown that certain indicators of human stress can improve in interior spaces with visible wood (e.g., Burnard and Kutnar, 2019). Due to the scarcity of studies, additional research is needed to confirm and clarify current findings. Ideally, human stress responses in indoor environments should be captured by combining measures of physiological arousal, affective states, and...
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Mr Kristóf Roland Horváth (Marcel Breuer Doctoral School, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology)
A fundamental problem of the sustainable built environment development represents the poor optimisation content in the design process. While first studies focus on algorithms for only one particular subsystem (e.g. insulation, shading, heating generation, etc.), the overall complete building optimisation is still missing. Though, the patented Energia Design Method applies sophisticated energy,...
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Nastja Podrekar (InnoRenew CoE)
The very first environment where a human is exposed to long term sitting is school envi-ronment. School furniture could be one of the external risk factors for musculoskeletal pain among students. The aim of this study was to evaluate school furniture as a risk factor for musculoskeletal pain among Slovenian students. The study was divided into two parts. First-ly, a review regarding the...
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Nezka Sajincic
Building practices can have a large impact on human health and the environment, so it is crucial to strive towards sustainability and use of renewable materials in all stages of the construction process. As academic research accumulates, detecting trends can illuminate current developments in both research and practice.
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Our aim was to explore recent trends in scientific publications in five... -
Hana Remešová (University of Primorska)
Current research suggests that natural materials such as straw can be a suitable insulation alternative to reduce energy demands in the construction and building industry particularly during service due to its excellent thermal properties, low embodied energy, carbon storage, and acceptable mechanical properties (Chaussinand, Scartezzini, Nik, & Nik, 2015; Maraldi, Molari, Molari, & Regazzi,...
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22. The Influence of Four Commercial Wood-surface Treatments on Mould-fungi Growth in a Pure CultureOlena Myronycheva (Lulea University of Technology)
The increased concern regarding mould on wood-based building materials has raised demand for sustainable biocidal treatments to protect early contamination during the construction stage of timber buildings. By providing surface protection for all type of wood-based construction elements already at the construction site will reduce the mould-associated risk for not only the construction...
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Mr Jaka Pečnik (University of Primorska, InnoRenew Centre of Excellence)
Australian sawn-board product is regulated by timber’s physical and mechanical properties to ensure safe operating performances in context specific applications. Contemporary and emerging timber resources however, are lacking the traditional properties of commercially sawn products, namely density. One technique used to improve timber properties is densification through thermo-hydro-mechanical...
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Dr Laetitia Marrot (Innorenew CoE, Livade 6, Izola)
Integration of sensors or any other diagnostic technology directly into a material or structure is a way to increase the safety level of the construction and provide other features as online diagnostics, predictive maintenance or a functionality of early warning in case of component failure. Many of the available embedded sensor technologies suffer from limited lifetime or necessity to have a...
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Balázs Dávid (InnoRenew CoE)
Structural design is a complex process of several stages that is used for the design and development structural plans. The stages of this of this process (planning, design and detailing) have to be performed sequentially, each stage using the output of the previous one as its input. As these stages are complex even separately, efficient solution methods can be useful to aid the decision-making...
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Mr Marko Kovačević (Competence Center for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry - Wood K Plus)
Cross laminated timber (CLT) is one of the most popular engineered wood products. The main species used for this product is spruce. To respond to the strongly increasing demand of CLT, it will become necessary to also investigate additional raw material resources for its production. Pine – having in mind its availability, mechanical properties and ability to grow even in regions with poor...
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