Sustainable Building Design in Cold Regions: High Performance Envelope and Façade-Integrated Photovoltaic/Solar Thermal Systems at High Latitudes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Northern housing entails both climatic and socio-economic challenges. Severe weather, high energy cost and fuel dependency on external supply call for a high-performance envelope system that can generate energy from renewable sources while functioning effectively as a passive building enclosure. In response to the challenges, a pre-fabricated building envelope system has been developed at Concordia University, Montreal, integrating solar-harnessing technologies onto a structural insulated panel (SIP) envelope system manufactured by industry. The envelope design aims to achieve low heat loss, on-site generation of electrical and thermal energy, as well as considerable cost offsets from fast construction, transportation savings, and energy production. This paper presents the experimental and simulation findings of the solar envelope prototype combining several modular components such as unglazed transpired collector (UTC), transpired glazing (TG), and photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) collectors on a SIP wall. Different façades incorporating solar collectors have been quantitatively evaluated and compared in respect to their suitability for cold climate.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".