Antonio Martinez-Molina

Antonio Martinez-Molina
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Drexel University | DU · Architecture Design and Urbanism

Ph.D., LEED Green Assoc. CPHD

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Additional affiliations
January 2017 - November 2017
University of Auckland
Position
  • Research Assistant
March 2017 - January 2018
Cardiff University
Position
  • Research Associate
July 2015 - November 2015
University of Ferrara
Position
  • Research Assistant
Education
September 2013 - June 2014
Valencian International University
Field of study
  • Education and Teaching
July 2011 - June 2016
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Field of study
  • Architecture
August 2010 - June 2011
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Field of study
  • Building Engineering

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Publications (51)
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Abstract In recent years, energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings have become high-interest topics among scholars. Research has demonstrated that retrofitting buildings to current energy efficiency and thermal comfort standards is essential for improving sustainability and energy performance and for maintaining built heritage of...
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Precise environmental monitoring within historic buildings is crucial for ensuring optimal conditions that guarantee the proper preservation of these structures, thereby maintaining their integrity and cultural legacy. Moreover, outdoor environmental conditions can potentially impact the indoor environment, especially in historic structures with de...
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Assessing indoor air quality (IAQ) in athletic facilities has become crucial to ensure a healthy environment for their occupants, a need that has increased significantly in correspondence with the active lifestyle of current society. In this study, we investigated IAQ in a cross-training facility in San Antonio, Texas, USA, across six ventilation s...
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This study investigates the impact of occupancy on indoor environmental conditions in three historic religious buildings located in different climate zones. In particular, Mission San Jose and Saydet Zgharta churches, with mechanical air conditioning, and Saint George Cathedral, with natural ventilation, were investigated. Environmental monitoring...
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Energy retrofits of historic buildings can potentially reduce energy consumption but encounter challenges due to their unique physical characteristics and high cultural value. A careful assessment of the inherent energy efficient features of these buildings ensures the necessary balance between energy optimization and historic preservation. This ca...
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This study explores the integration of advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies in historic buildings to optimize energy consumption management while preserving cultural heritage and ensuring occupant comfort. Fo-cusing on a historically significant church in San Antonio, Texas, two predictive control models, a Feedforward...
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Adverse health effects can arise from indoor air pollutants, resulting in allergies, asthma, and other respiratory problems among occupants. Concurrently, the energy consumption of residential buildings, particularly concerning heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, significantly contributes to global energy usage. To address th...
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The demand for housing that is both affordable and sustainable is a prevalent global phenomenon. Despite the multiple challenges, there is room for realizing advancements through innovative design methods, building materials, and technologies. This study delves into analyzing the energy performance and optimization strategies for three distinct hou...
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Purpose Exposure to indoor air pollutants poses a significant health risk, contributing to various ailments such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. These unhealthy consequences are specifically alarming for athletes during exercise due to their higher respiratory rate. Therefore, studying, predicting and curtailing exposure to indoor air c...
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Natural ventilation in hot climates has the potential to save energy by reducing the need to use mechanical systems. Particularly in historic buildings, it should be considered as a passive retrofit strategy before the addition of any mechanical systems to accommodate their unique indoor environmental characteristics and ensure their preservation....
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Recently, there has been a significant growth in the number of athletic facilities associated with the progressive demand of people trying to reverse the increasingly sedentary lifestyle of current society. Cross-training facilities have become more popular in recent years among these training centers. Therefore, a detailed investigation of their i...
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Better indoor air quality (IAQ) lowers the exposure to air pollutants that can lead to decreased lung function, and exacerbation of common recurring respiratory conditions, such as asthma. Due to the higher respiratory rate, these adverse effects are particularly dangerous for athletes during exercise. Thus, investigating, and mitigating exposure t...
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Rehabilitating disused historic buildings and optimizing their energy efficiency is an effective approach to decreasing energy consumption and ensuring the continuity of their life. Achieving a successful retrofit project should take into deliberation not only potential energy savings but also the preservation of the historic building’s character....
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During the gradual return to the new normality after the COVID-19 pandemic, offices, businesses, and fitness centers have taken precautions to minimize the spread through close contact, and indirectly via contaminated objects. Evidence has shown that inhalation of infected aerosol particles such as Particle Matter (PM) can also transmit the virus,...
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Successful energy retrofits of historic buildings are those that take into consideration energy savings, thermal comfort, and the conservation of cherished heritage values. This study proposes passive energy efficiency measures that abide by historic preservation standards and evaluates their impact on a wood-frame heritage residential building in...
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The wide use of sensor and information technologies in buildings resulted in the massive generation of data related to its operation. Thus, there is a need for identifying patterns in data that they may use for the optimal operation of the buildings. The case of non-residential building characteristically provides a big volume of data whose analysi...
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Construction workers are often faced with several safety and health risks due to their constant exposure to extreme weather elements and hazardous materials in form of chemicals, gases, particulate matter (PM), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Continuous automated sensing of these inclement environmental conditions and hazardous materials for...
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The adaptive reuse of historic buildings, as well as the maintenance of their optimal indoor environments for structural and collections preservation, are inherently complex, multifaceted goals. Moreover, indoor environments do not only affect collections and building—the occupants’ satisfaction must also be considered. In this study, a field inves...
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Interest in the topics of energy efficiency and thermal comfort integrated with building preservation in historic buildings is growing among researchers. Research has determined that an adequate indoor microclimate should be maintained, avoiding abrupt variations between indoor and outdoor environments which could damage artwork, the building itsel...
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Animal Vehicle Collision, commonly called roadkill, is an emerging threat to drivers and wild animals, increasing fatalities every year. Currently, prevalent methods using visible light cameras are efficient for animal detection in daylight time. This paper focuses on locating wildlife close to roads during nocturnal hours by utilizing thermographi...
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As education providers, universities play a pivotal role in developing and delivering quality education that contributes to the achievement of the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and the related “Sustainable Development Goals”. Given the large impact of the built environment industry on global emissions and climate change, integrating env...
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Animal Vehicle Collision (AVC) is relatively an evolving source of fatality resulting in the deficit of wildlife conservancy along with carnage. It’s a globally distressing and disturbing experience that causes monetary damage, injury, and human-animal mortality. Roadkill has always been atop the research domain and serendipitously provided heterog...
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Building technology can promote environmental sustainability and is a critical component of energy conservation. Well-functioning indoor microclimates do not only affect buildings, however—occupant health must also be considered. Recent research has demonstrated that sustainability and occupant health go hand-in-hand when designing or retrofitting...
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The maintenance of historic buildings' optimal indoor environments for structural integrity and collections' preservation, are inherently complex, multifaceted goals. Moreover, indoor environments do not only affect collections and building-the occupants' satisfaction must also be considered. This research evaluates the impact of thermal and humidi...
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Building type identification is an important task that may be used in confirming and verifying its legitimate operation. One of the main sources of information over the operation of a building is its energy consumption, with the analysis of electricity patterns being at the spotlight of a non-intrusive identification approach. However, electricity...
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One of the pillars in developing smart power systems is the use of load forecasting methods. In particular load forecasting accommodates decision making pertained to the operation of power market. In this paper, a new method for real-time updating very short-term load forecasting is proposed. The goal of the method is to accurately predict the load...
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Purpose The importance of sustainability in architecture currently necessitates the integration of innovative teaching strategies on the subject into architecture programs. This study aims to introduce and examine peer learning pedagogy by peer tutoring to educate architecture students in sustainable design. Design/methodology/approach Based on cla...
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Animal Vehicle Collision is an inviolability concern that comes with the cost of both humankind and animals. It has popularly resulted in millions of deer-vehicle collisions claims and fatalities. The only way to prevent the above-saddened statics is to drive wildlife safely away from roadways due to morbidity and injuries. This paper undrapes the...
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Wildlife vehicle collision, commonly called roadkill, is a nascent threat to both humans and wild animals. The collision results in property damage, injuries, death, and financial losses to society and mankind. An automobile system is integrated with alert notification, image processing, and machine learning models. This study explores a newer dime...
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Research on Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) in historic buildings has increased exponentially in recent years. Religious structures are a critical asset to the heritage building stock and a significant field of study due to the particular occupancy patterns and the impact of indoor microclimate on the occupants' thermal comfort satisfaction. Based...
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Integrated daylighting harvesting and electric lighting system is a key strategy to maximize energy saving and improve occupant comfort and productivity in buildings. However, providing desired amount of light and outdoor views to occupants without causing visual discomfort has been challenging in practice. Located in IECC Zone 6A, the design of a...
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Building quality and performance can be assessed in terms of indoor air quality, thermal comfort, lighting quality, and acoustic comfort, collectively referred to as "Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)." User satisfaction in buildings has been clearly linked to productivity, lower absenteeism, and employee retention among other outcomes. Conducted...
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Recent interest in the thermal comfort of historic buildings has grown exponentially. However, modern interventions for occupant comfort must not compromise other preservation aspects such as structural integrity. The introduction of mechanical heating or cooling systems to provide thermal consistency and comfort can have adverse effects on a build...
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In recent years, the interest in properly conditioning the indoor environment of historic buildings has increased significantly. However, maintaining a suitable environment for building and artwork preservation while keeping comfortable conditions for occupants is a very challenging and multi-layered job that might require a considerable increase i...
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Educational institutions around the globe have taken definitive steps to curtail the increasing dependence on energy in the built environment by promoting the education of sustainability-minded professionals. Since a large portion of the global energy dependence can be attributed to the building sector, integrating sustainability coursework within...
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Adaptive reuse of historic buildings as museums is an effective strategy for retaining heritage architectures while achieving environmental sustainability objectives. Building adaptation, retrofitting and preserving optimal environments for artwork and exhibit preservation are inherently complex, multifaceted tasks. However, indoor microclimates do...
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With attention increasingly shifting toward adaptation and energy upgrade of existing and historic buildings, research on Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) has grown notably in recent years. School buildings are a significant asset to the European building stock and an important field of investigation because of the peculiarities of the end users and...
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Thermal comfort is an important aspect of residential buildings other than the usual safety and security aspects. However, because of the recent rise of occupant’s expectation for thermal confort level, the operation cost due to energy consumption in the buildings has increased considerably. Typically more tan 80% of total energy consumption occurs...
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the thermal comfort of visitors of the Museum of History of Valencia, a historic building originally used as a tank that provided the city with potable water. A beautiful example of Valencian industrial architecture, the building was built in 1850 and it is considered the first public engineering work of th...
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This paper states the results of a large review of the literature on the topic of thermal comfort and energy efficiency assessment in historic buildings, which their original use has been modified to adapt them to new purposes. The reuse of historic buildings is being a very effective way to maintain them properly. Despite to that fact, the real ch...
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This paper presents the results of an extensive literature review on the topic of assessment of occupants' opinion of the internal environment in historical buildings, based upon their responses to questions relating to a range of discrete factors. The adaptive approach to modelling thermal comfort acknowledges that thermal perception in 'real worl...
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In this paper the building of the Museum of History of Valencia (2001), located in Mislata (Valencia, Spain) is analyzed from the energy point of view. The building was constructed in 1850, as general warehouse of drinkable waters of the city, supporting this use during more than one century. It is a beautiful example of the industrial Valencian ar...
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The enhancement of the energy efficiency in buildings implies the use of the energetic qualification to make the users aware of the importance not only of the use of efficient equipments, but also of the efficient buildings. The Spanish regulation (Real Decreto 235/2013) supersedes the exigencies of the European Union for existing buildings. In thi...
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In this paper a review of the different contributions realized in the area of historical buildings from the energetic point of view is shown. The information has been compiled and papers have been characterised depending on the situation of the building, the type of climate and of building, the method analysis, as well as if a simulation and / or v...
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The paper presents the results of two studies that Architettura>Energia Research Centre accomplished for Public Administrations as instrument for orienting a sustainable retrofit of historic settlements hit by earthquakes. The study has focused on Caporciano, a small town within the area around L’Aquila struck by the earthquake in 2009, and Apice V...
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This study reports the analysis of energy consumption of a historic building under a modeling program of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning system (HVAC) to improve the energy efficiency of the building. The building is a Museum located in Valencia (Spain), called “Museum of History of Valencia”. It was built in 1850, constructed as a water...
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Energy used in buildings represents the largest contribution in Europe of fossil fuel use and emissions of carbon dioxide. For these reasons, and to demonstrate the need for sustainable design buildings, a study of a building has been made to analyze its original state (with no energy saving design taken into account), and to arrive to possible imp...

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