RUBIO BELLIDO , Carlos

La presente tesis doctoral ha demostrado hasta qué punto es trascendente el conocimiento de adaptación al medio de las ciudades históricas. La relación entre ser humano, arquitectura y su medio que se pone de manifiesto en estas ciudades es un valor a respetar, preservar y del que aprender. La ciudad existente y lo ya construido requiere de un...

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This document analyzes the energy behavior based on the thermal comfort of a sample house from the Ecuadorian program "Casa para Todos" in four cities of the country. It includes the modeling of the block in a software specialized in the environmental and energy simulation of buildings, DesignBuilder, studying its behavior in each locality with...

The design and construction of buildings is currently subject to a growing set of requirements concerning sustainability and energy efficiency. This paper shows a case study of the Torre Sevilla skyscraper, located in the city of Seville (in the south of Spain), which has high-tech energy-efficient features and which uses air-conditioning...

Internationalizing university studies can be something of a challenge for courses related to engineering and architecture because their content is mainly focused on the standards of the country. In this regard, the content of the degree programmes in building engineering in Spain is based on the Spanish Building Technical Code. For this reason,...

Building Simulation Software tools support designers to analyse and identify certain users´ behavioural patterns; besides, they can predict future trends about the energy demand and consumption in buildings, as well as CO2 emissions, design analysis, energy efficiency, or lighting. These tools allow to collect and report information about such...

Solar protections are often designed as passive strategies in buildings, both for thermal and lighting performance. In this sense, the importance of the balance between these two parameters could be crucial in the early stages of design. The purpose of this research is to compare the variation solar protection strategies (glazing with solar...

Most of the operational energy needed by the housing sector is used to compensate energy losses or thermal gains through the building's envelope. As a result, any improvement in the thermal behavior will provide important opportunities to reduce energy consumption. This research analyzes improvements in the thermal envelope in social housing in...

The implementation of the solar protections laid out in the regulations and certification systems decreases cooling demands, although it has an uncontrolled and even unforeseen effect on daylighting. Achieving a balance between both requirements is a challenge for facade design, energy behavior, and lighting performance since restricting solar...

Recently, the energy saving potential from using setpoint temperatures based on adaptive comfort has been studied. This study proposes a computational approach, the Adaptive-Comfort-Control-Implementation Script (ACCIS), to extend the air-conditioning usage to adaptive comfort. ACCIS transforms PMV-based into adaptive setpoint building energy...