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There is a significant number of historical buildings with different destinations in Romania and all of these are yet dealing with major problems in terms of energy efficiency. The legal status of these buildings involves various restrictions concerning solutions that might be applied in order to ensure its? energy efficiency. Therefore, applying the classic solutions to maintain the thermal comfort within patrimony buildings becomes very hard to accomplish or even impossible in some cases. The purpose of the stud...

Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with complex thermal factors. There are three main factors that can affect the human comfort, which must be considered by engineers before designing progressive indoor technologies; effective temperature, relative humidity and air motion. Building occupants are a rich source of information about indoor environmental quality and its effects on comfort and productivity. Subjective evaluation of indoors is an important part of assessing the quality ...

Historical buildings are a major part of European and national cultural heritage which people all around the world decided should be preserved for the future. In order to conserve both the construction elements and the thermal comfort, it is crucial to find the optimal configuration of the energy related equipment. These units, besides fulfilling the parameters of thermal comfort, are also subject to the EU Ecodesign and energy labeling requirements and must meet a series of architectural restrictions. This articl...

The paper analysis the influence of indoor temperature in case of a 2-room?s apartment built in the years 1975-1985, upon the thermal heating energy consumption. Thus, the thermal energy consumption is determined considering the thermal insulation measurements of the buildings elements taking in account a variation of the indoor temperature from 20?C until 24?C, according to the Romanian calculus methodology. The resulted values are compared with the experimental measurements realized for a 2 rooms apartment with ...