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Editorial [to] Themed issue on sustainability in energy and buildings, part 1 (2017)
Journal Article
Calautit, J. K. (2017). Editorial [to] Themed issue on sustainability in energy and buildings, part 1. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 170(1), https://doi.org/10.1680/jensu.2017.170.1.1

This themed issue includes the selected papers from the proceedings of the seventh International Conference on Sustainability and Energy in Buildings 2015 (SEB15), which was successfully held in the vibrant city of Lisbon, Portugal and was organised... Read More about Editorial [to] Themed issue on sustainability in energy and buildings, part 1.

A novel design of a desiccant rotary wheel for passive ventilation applications (2016)
Journal Article
O'Connor, D., Calautit, J. K., & Hughes, B. R. (2016). A novel design of a desiccant rotary wheel for passive ventilation applications. Applied Energy, 179, 99-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.06.029

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Rotary desiccant wheels are used to regulate the relative humidity of airstreams. These are commonly integrated into Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning units to reduce the relative humidity of incoming ventilation air. To m... Read More about A novel design of a desiccant rotary wheel for passive ventilation applications.

Climatic analysis of a passive cooling technology for the built environment in hot countries (2016)
Journal Article
Calautit, J. K., Hughes, B. R., & Nasir, D. S. (2017). Climatic analysis of a passive cooling technology for the built environment in hot countries. Applied Energy, 186, 321-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.05.096

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The aim of this work was to determine the ventilation and cooling potential of a passive cooling windcatcher operating under hot climatic conditions by replicating the monthly wind velocity, wind direction, temperature and relativ... Read More about Climatic analysis of a passive cooling technology for the built environment in hot countries.

A passive cooling wind catcher with heat pipe technology: CFD, wind tunnel and field-test analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Calautit, J. K., & Hughes, B. R. (2016). A passive cooling wind catcher with heat pipe technology: CFD, wind tunnel and field-test analysis. Applied Energy, 162, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.10.045

Wind catchers are natural ventilation systems based on the design of traditional architecture, intended to provide ventilation by manipulating pressure differentials around buildings induced by wind movement and temperature difference. Though the mov... Read More about A passive cooling wind catcher with heat pipe technology: CFD, wind tunnel and field-test analysis.

A study of the impact of building geometry on the thermal performance of road pavement solar collectors (2015)
Journal Article
Nasir, D. S., Hughes, B. R., & Calautit, J. K. (2015). A study of the impact of building geometry on the thermal performance of road pavement solar collectors. Energy, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.09.128

Studies on RPSC (road pavement solar collectors) have shown the potential of reducing the UHI (urban heat island) effects by dissipating the heat from the pavement for energy harness. Several works have shown that the generated heat could be utilised... Read More about A study of the impact of building geometry on the thermal performance of road pavement solar collectors.

A study of passive ventilation integrated with heat recovery (2014)
Journal Article
O'Connor, D., Calautit, J. K., & Hughes, B. R. (2014). A study of passive ventilation integrated with heat recovery. Energy and Buildings, 82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.05.050

To meet the demand for energy demand reduction in heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, a novel design incorporating a heat recovery device into a wind tower was proposed. The integrated system uses a rotary thermal wheel for heat recove... Read More about A study of passive ventilation integrated with heat recovery.