View No. 10 (2022): Towards Self-Sufficient High-Rises

Berk Ekici

306 Pages 

ISBN 978-94-6366-562-9 

Published: 2022-06-28

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  • Population growth and urbanisation trends bring many consequences related to the increase in global energy consumption, CO2 emissions and a decrease in arable land per person. High‑rises have been one of the inevitable buildings of metropoles to provide extra floor space since the early examples in the 19th century. Therefore, optimisation of high-rise buildings has been the focus of researchers because of significant performance enhancement, mainly in energy consumption and generation....