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Façades play an important role in architecture, with deep implications in both the quality of the indoor environment and the appearance of the building. R&D in the field of energy conservation is moving toward advanced integrated façades (AIFs): these are innovative and dynamic façades deeply connected with the building equipment. Their dynamic features allow the energy performance of the façade to be optimized, adapting its behavior to different boundary conditions. The substantial lack of synthetic performance parameters to assess and to characterize the energy performance of AIFs is one of the main limitations to the widespread of these technologies. This inconvenience is due to the fact that conventional synthetic metrics (such as U-value and g-value) cannot be fully applied with these technologies. The research activity presented in the paper is an attempt to investigate new synthetic metrics able to characterize the thermal behavior of an AIF. A multiple linear regression (MLR) approach is adopted to identify synthetic parameters able to replicate the energy performance of the façade as a function of the main boundary conditions, e.g., solar irradiance and thermal gradients.
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Goia, F., Bianco, L., Serra, V., Perino, M. (2014). Energy Performance Assessment of Advanced Integrated Façades by Means of Synthetic Metrics. In: Li, A., Zhu, Y., Li, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 263. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39578-9_3
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