New paper published in Building and Environment
M. Moustapha co-authored a new paper proposing a methodology for the identification of robust strategies in building renovations. The paper is a result from a collaboration with the Chair of Sustainable Construction at ETH Zurich, the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland and the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
The paper titled Statistical method to identify robust renovation choices for environmental and economic performance offers a framework for the sequential assessment of renovation strategies in terms of economic and environmental performance of a building. The methodology, which is applied to three residential buildings with different construction periods, gives new insights into common renovation practice. State-of-the-art uncertainty quantification techniques such as polynomial chaos expansions and Sobol’ indices were used to find design solutions within an affordable computational budget.
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