PLEA BEST PAPER AWARD

2020
Evyater Erell, Bin Zhou
The Effect of Increasing Vegetation Cover on Energy Demand for Heating and Cooling Buildings in a Dense Mediterranean City
2020
Ranny L. X. N. Michalski, Lucélia Rodrigues, Joana C. S. Gonçalves, Roberta C. K. Mulfarth, Leonardo M. Monteiro, Renata Tubelo, Alessandra R. P. Shimomura, Carolina O. Bley, Mariana S.Vitti, Daniel F. Bilesky, Maysa M. Guimaraes
The Environmental Performance Of Temporary Urban Interventions: Technical Assessment Of Regeneration Initiatives In The City Centre Of São Paulo, With Focus On Thermal And Acoustic Performance
2020
Lan Wang, Eric Wai Ming Lee
Critical Analysis on Research Trend on Passive and Low Energy Architecture Study Through Text Data Mining Technique in the Period of 2006 to 2018
2020
Haniyeh Monhammadpourkarbasi, Steve Sharples
Life Cycle Cost and Carbon Appraisal for a Prefabricated Residential Development in London
2018
(Best Paper Award)
Michael Kent, Steve Fotios and Sergio Altomonte
Experimental Biases in Discomfort Glare Evaluations
2018 (Best Paper Award)
Roshini Udyavar Yehuda and Archana Bhatnagar
Assessment of ThermODrain System on Thermal Comfort – Study of a Multi-storied Office Building in Nashik, India
2018 (Best Paper Award)
Caroline Karmann, Stefano Schiavon, Lindsay Graham, Paul Raftery and Fred Bauman
Occupant Satisfaction in 60 Radiant and All-air Buildings
2018 (Merit Award)
Christopher James Whitman, Oriel Prizeman, Julie Gwilliam, Andrew Shea and Pete Walker
Physical Monitoring of Replacement Infill Panels for Historic Timber-Framed Buildings in the UK: Comparing Hygrothermal Simulations and Dual Climate Chamber Testing
2018 (Merit Award)
Luis Santos and Luisa Caldas
Assessing the Glare Potential of Complex Fenestration Systems: a Heuristic Approach based on Spatial and Time Sampling
2017
Daniel Fosas, Dima Albadra, Sukumar Natarajan and David Coley
Overheating and health risks in refugee shelters: assessment and relative importance of design parameters
2016
Navid Hatefnia, Amir Barakati, Marjan Ghobad, Azar Eslam Panah
A Novel Methodology to Assess Mean Radiant Temperature in Complex Outdoor Spaces
2016
Jae Yong Suk, Marc Schiler and Karen Kensek
Is Exterior Glare Problematic? Investigation on Visual Discomfort Caused by Reflected Sunlight on Specular Building Facades
2016
Juan Montoliu-Hernandez and Jorge Rodriguez-Alvarez
Crisis Architecture: Colonising unfinished residential structures
2015
Yuchiro Kodama, Naoshi Kaneko, Futoshi Miyaoka, Koji Takemasa, Khuplianlam Tungnung and Bruna Bajramovic
Passive Town Kurobe Model – A sustainable community project in Kurobe
2014
Rajat Gupta and Matt Gregg
A quiet revolution: Mapping energy use in low carbon communities
2014
Parisa Izadpanahi and Hisham Elkadi
The Catalyst Role of School Architecture in Enhancng Children’s Environmental Behavior
2013
Anne-Francoise Marique, Marine Penders and Sigrid Reiter
From zero energy building to zero energy neighbourhood: Urban form and mobility matter
2013
Ian McChugh, Gregory Keeffe
Ideahaus: A Comfortable Home for the UK’S Future Climate
2013
Lorenzo Olivieri, Estefania Caamano-Martin, Francesca Olivieri, Javier Nella Gonzales
Design, Development And Construction Of An Outdoor Testing Facility For STPV Modules
2012
Doris Hooi Chyee Toe and Tetsu Kubota
Reanalysing the ASHRAE RP-884 Database to Determine Thermal Comfort Criteria for Naturally Ventilated Buildings in Hot-Humid Climate
2012
Frans Josstens and Laure Itard
Building Management for a Good Indoor Climate and Low Energy Use: How much coordination is needed between facility manager and technical manager?
2011
Jaime M. L. Gagne, Marilyne Andersen, Leslie K. Norford
An Interactive Performance-based Expert System for Daylighting Design
2009
Ihab Elzeyadi
Architectural Pride and Environmental Prejudice: The effect of personal status, historical value, and indoor décor on occupants indoor environmental quality in offices
2008
Giles Bruce
High Density, Low Energy: Achieving Useful Solar Access for Dublin’s Multi-storey Apartment Developments
2007
Griet Verbeek and Hugo Hens
Life Cycle Inventory of Extremely Low Energy Dwellings
2006
Edward Ng
Air Ventilation Assessment System for High Density Planning and Design
2005
Maria Cristina Munari Probst and Christian Roecker
Integration and Formal Development of Solar Thermal Collectors
2004
Amanda Gail Kenton, Shaun Fitzgerald and Andrew Woods
Theory and Practice of Natural Ventilation in a Theatre
2004
Dominique Derome, Daniel Pearl and Andreas Athienitis
Engaging Engineering and Architectural Students in the Integrated Design Process (IDP) for a Competition Entry Demonstration House – the Solar Decathlon
2003
Brian Ford and Camila Diaz
Passive Downdraught Cooling: hybrid cooling in the Malta Stock Exchange
2003
David Pearlmutter, Pedro Berliner and Edna Shaviv
Analyzing the microclimatic influence of urban canyon geometry with an open-air scale model
2002
André Potvin, A.L. Heureux, B. Saricoglu and K. Zarnovican
Assessing Environmental Comfort – Towards a systemic quantitative and qualitative approach
2002
Yasmine Mansouri, Francis Allard and Marjorie Musy
Building envelope design for natural ventilation
2001
Luisa Caldas, Leslis Norford and Joao Rocha
An evolutionary model for sustainable design
2000
Steven Beckers, Pierre Lallemand and Jean-François Roger France
The Berlaymont Building: The European Commission headquarters designed to be a model of environmentally conscious building
2000
Brian Ford, Camilo Diaz and Mark Hewitt
Passive downdraught cooling : Architectural integration in Seville
2000
Elizabeth Francis
The application of Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling (PDEC) to non-domestic buildings: Office building prototype desing in Catania Italy
2000
Argiro Dimoudi and Marialena Nikolopoulou
Vegetation in the urban environment : Microclimatic analysis and benefits
2000
Khandaker Shabbir Ahmed
Comfort in urban spaces: Defining the boundaries of outdoor thermal comfort for the tropical urban environments
2000
Bruce Forwood, Srinivas Tapedalli and Simon Hayman
Modelling thermal adaptation and thermal preferences in outdoor urban environments
2000
Ljubica Mudri and Jean-Dominique Lenard
Comfortable and/or pleasant ambience: Conflicting issues ?
2000
Katerina Parpairi, Nick Baker and Koen Steemers
Daylighting quality through user preferences: Investigating libraries
2000
Toshiya Chikada and Takashi Inoue
CO2 emission concerning daily activities in residences
2000
Yair Etzion, Boris A. Portnov and Evyatar Erell
A GIS framework for studying post-occupancy climate-related changes in residential neighbourhoods
2000
Mary Ann Steane
Building in the climate of the New World… A cultural or environmental response?
1999
Marci Webster-Mannison
Environmentally sensitive design in practice
1998
David Pearlmutter
Street canyon geometry and microclimate: Designing for urban comfort under arid conditions
1997
Susan Roaf and Manuel Fuentes
The Oxford Photovoltaic House: Lessons for the future UK PV industry
1988
Jean Bouillot
The Bioclimatic Domestic Space Components: Variations of their Architectural Translations on the Periphery of the Mediterranean Sea