Theodoros Theodosiou

Theodoros Theodosiou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | AUTH · School of Civil Engineering

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September 2020 - present
Hellenic Open University
Position
  • Professor
March 2018 - present
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
January 2016 - December 2019
International Hellenic University
Position
  • Professor
Education
October 1996 - June 2000
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Field of study
  • Passive cooling of buildings - Green roofs

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Publications (114)
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This literature review addresses the Life Cycle Energy Analysis (LCEA) of residential buildings. As the fluctuation in the choice of functional units, boundaries of the system, life cycle inventory (LCI) methods, metrics and impact indicators complicated the potential comparability, the guidelines of Product Category Rule (PCR) 2014:02 for building...
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One of the major motivations behind the effort for the transition from linear models to circular ones in the building sector is related to the need for the minimization of resources depletion. Water holds a prominent position among those resources. The building sector is responsible for appreciable water consumption and, hence, represents an import...
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Humanity in our days is fighting with climate change effects and the depletion of natural resources. In this direction, the adoption of sustainable and circular practices is considered vital and in most cases is prescribed by regulations. The construction sector is responsible for massive amounts of energy consumed during the extraction of raw mate...
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Tall buildings have become a prevalent typology around the world. They carry benefits for the entrepreneur (profits) and the local authority (municipal taxes), the architect and the tenants (prestige). Yet little is known about the actual needs of the building itself, the fact that its different levels are exposed to different climatic conditions,...
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Towards the achievement of zero-emission buildings, conventional envelope solutions have started to become outdated. The concept of Dynamic thermal insulation is an innovative approach, still under development, that attracts a continuously and fast growing scientific and research interest, mainly due to its perfect alignment with the targets of a z...
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The construction sector is responsible for a large part of CO 2 emissions, consumption of resources and generation of waste globally. Although the importance of construction and demolition waste management in a circular and sustainable way has been acknowledged on an academic and policy level, there are still steps needed to be taken both in terms...
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Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) effective management is of vital importance, especially regarding the climate-neutral economy target set for 2050. The common practice of landfilling them during the past decades and ignoring the environmental impacts is now obsolete, with countries around the world adopting national regulations for their pro...
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Towards the achievement of nZEB and the enormous effort for mitigating climate change effects, new sustainable construction strategies are continuously introduced and adopted in the building sector. Thermal insulation is considered a fundamental strategy before moving to more complex ones. Over the past 50 years, thermal insulation is mainly concei...
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Regarding the constantly increasing cooling demands in the building sector due to climate change effects, strategies for reducing the cooling demands are vital. Among the major strategies is thermal insulation, however, overheating phenomenon during the summer months is a frequent problem in over-insulated buildings. In this study, a typical dwelli...
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Development and use of preconstruction have been exhibited for several decades. Numerous modules, ranging from the simplest to the most advanced concepts, have been suggested to ameliorate the layout of building structures, with respect to a broad spectrum of needs. This study aims to unfold the fire defensiveness of an innovative precast concrete...
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Although modern prefabricated buildings may offer many advantages, such as a significant reduction in cost and time, improved quality and accuracy in manufacture, easy dismantle and reuse of its components, etc., they have not gained the attention they deserve in the construction market yet. In this paper, a holistic approach for the formation of p...
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The energy consumption mitigation of the building sector, one of the most energy-consuming, is a major target of the European policy. Recent studies indicate that increased thermal protection may burden the energy performance of a building in warm and hot regions by increasing the overheating risk during the warm season. In this study, a building i...
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Improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings is of outmost importance for reducing their environmental footprint. Recent studies demonstrate that a highly insulated building envelope may burden the building’s performance during the cooling period, especially in regions with hot summers. In this study, the energy performance of a residen...
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Green roof installation is considered to be an effective practice in restoring green spaces to high – density urban areas, in an effort to mitigate environmental problems that arise from their growing expansion. The present study attempts to further investigate this claim by assessing the environmental and economic life cycle benefits and challenge...
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Green roofs constitute a prominent urban green infrastructure solution and are considered to be able to enhance urban sustainability and resilience. Existing literature, however, lacks a holistic evaluation of their life cycle impacts. In this study, a comparative environmental and economic life cycle analysis between green and flat roofs under Med...
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The paper concerns the development of an innovative building module with advanced thermophysical and mechanical properties that will be used in constructing sustainable prefabricated buildings with high structural, hygrothermal, energy, acoustic, fire and environmental performance at the minimum possible time and cost. In this paper, the configurat...
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This work aims to analyse the thermal performance of a clay hollow‐brick masonry wall under a fire action referring to the standard time‐temperature curve (EN1991‐1‐2). For this fire exposure, temperature profile calculations underline the thermal response of certain wall configurations, while resulted temperatures of the non‐exposed surface can...
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Heading towards more energy-efficient buildings, legislative requirements are becoming increasingly demanding. A decade ago, the thermal bridge effect was a known deficiency of building facades but, beyond design guidelines, no qualitative or quantitative requirements occurred in order to minimize its impact. The implementation of international sta...
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Despite the multiple advantages of prefabricated compared to conventional buildings, such as significant reductions in cost and time, improved quality and accuracy in manufacture, easy dismantling and reuse of components, reduction in environmental degradation, increase of productivity gains, etc., they still share a small part of the European buil...
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Tall buildings around the world are increasing at an accelerating pace. However, this fast-pace development is not in tandem with today’s environmental considerations towards reducing high carbon emissions, mainly relating to the building sector (close to 50% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions). The vast scale and energy demands of tall buildings ca...
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This paper investigates different strategies towards advancing the energy efficiency of a high-rise office building by focusing on the building envelope. More specifically, the focus is on the thermal properties of the building envelope and the effect of altitude on energy performance. The studies are focused on Tel Aviv, Israel, a city with a vibr...
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The increased rates of urbanization and industrialization of the 20th and 21st centuries have dramatically changed the land use and cover of modern cities, contributing to the degradation of the urban microclimate and the rise of the ambient urban air temperatures. Given the multiple negative energy, environmental and social consequences of urban w...
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Towards the zero energy and emission future, near Zero Energy Buildings (nZEBs) lead the path for the building construction sector. European legislation provides normative provisions for the definition of nZEBs and their cost-optimal levels within the context of EPBD recast and Delegated Regulation No.244 (2012). However, that same framework unilat...
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This study evaluates the effect of the morphological characteristics of 4 urban districts in Thessaloniki, Greece on the vertical profile of the Tair inside the various urban canyons under different meteorological conditions. ENVI-met v.4 microclimate simulations are conducted for the 4 selected case study areas, while different meteorological boun...
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This paper presents the primary findings of a research project, aiming to introduce an innovative building module with improved thermophysical and mechanical properties that will serve as a bearing element and/or as an internal partition wall in prefabricated residential buildings. This new building module will comply with current requirements as r...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the energy performance of residential buildings, through a case study of a typical domestic house located in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. The building’s energy performance is simulated and analysed using the DesignBuilder software. The study then performs a parametric analysis, in which deviation in various...
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The Greek EPB regulation was recently reformed. During this procedure a scientific workgroup produced a series of Technical Guidelines for energy efficiency interventions in the existing building fabric constructed before 1955 (year of the 1 st building code), in order to be implemented in the new legislation. These old buildings differ in architec...
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The numbers of high-rise buildings around the world increase rapidly. However, this fast pace is not in tandem with the expertise gained on how to design this building typology to best adjust it to local climates. In addition, the increased transparency of the building envelope from the mid-twentieth century onwards, resulted in high-energy loads,...
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The numbers of high-rise buildings around the world increase rapidly. However, this fast pace is not in tandem with the expertise gained on how to design this building typology to best adjust it to local climates. In addition, the increased transparency of the building envelope from the mid-twentieth century onwards, resulted in high- energy loads,...
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Replacing conventional pavements with the corresponding high albedo ones constitutes a well-known technique to improve outdoor thermal environment of modern cites. Since most of the existing studies assess the impact of the high albedo pavements at the pedestrian’s height and with respect to thermal comfort, this study aims to examine the effect of...
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Double-skin facades (DSFs) are a technology that lies behind innovative energy efficient facade systems. While it provides a potential for high energy efficient buildings, other important parameters, like point thermal bridge problems, are in most cases overlooked. The aim of this study is to investigate the magnitude of this approach and the effec...
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Increased urban air temperatures due to urbanization affect the buildings’ energy performance and the outdoor thermal comfort. Aiming on the establishment of adaption strategies, urban microclimate studies using numerical simulation tools are gaining great scientific attention. The ENVI-met model is one of the most widely employed dynamic simulatio...
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Within the existing European building stock, a large share is built before 1960, when there were only a few or no requirements for energy efficiency. Given that only a small portion of these buildings have undergone major energy retrofits, it is easily concluded that the oldest part of the building stock contributes greatly to the high energy consu...
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Aiming at the improvement of a dense urban area's microclimatic conditions, this study examines by simulation means, the application of highly reflective materials as a mitigation strategy. However, as significant albedo changes may occur due to weathering and aging, the study investigates the surface (Tsurf) and air (Tair) temperature cooling pote...
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On the way to achieve the demanding energy efficiency targets that adopt and even surpass the requirements of near Zero Energy Buildings, numerous techniques and systems have been proposed and constructed, aiming not only at improving the thermophysical characteristics of the building envelope, but even convert it to a smart, adaptive or energetic,...
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Predicting buildings' heating and cooling needs through dynamic simulation methods requires the input of hourly weather data, so as to represent the typical meteorological characteristics of a specific location. Hence, the so called 'typical weather years' (TWY), mainly deduced from multi-year records of meteorological stations outside the urban ce...
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This paper investigates the public and professional attitudes towards an innovative energy efficient façade refurbishment system, in Mediterranean countries, including Greece, Italy and Spain. Two types of multiple choice questionnaires were developed and addressed to two different target groups: building professionals and users. The survey questio...
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Electricity generation on site is a design challenge aiming at supporting the concept of energy-autonomous building. Many projects worldwide have promoted the installation of photovoltaic panels on urban buildings, aiming at utilizing a large area to produce electricity. In most cases, photovoltaics are considered strictly as electricity generators...
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With world population becoming progressively urbanized, approximately 55% to date, the typology of the skyscraper is promoted as potentially socially and economically successful solution. However, an important challenge set on a worldwide basis is how to reduce their high-energy demands, environmental and social imbalances to meet growing strict re...
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Towards the EPBD recast 2010/31/EU and the nearly zero energy building (nZEB), this review addresses the whole life cycle energy analysis of residential buildings. Life Cycle Energy Analysis (LCEA) of 90 case studies of residential buildings is evaluated with a specific focus on the normalization procedure that follows the principles of Product Cat...
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The assessment of a building's energy performance as a design factor in the early design stages is a very demanding and complex procedure. Over the last decades, a number of tools and methods have been developed to address performance-related design questions, mostly using Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms. Parametric modelling offers dynamic...
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Resent developments on the requirements regarding the thermal efficiency of buildings and building envelopes, have increased the need for energy retrofit of building envelopes. Cladding systems and ventilated facades are among the most attractive solutions to these problems due to a variety of reasons, including aesthetics, moisture control, servic...
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In order to effectively design nearly Zero Energy Buildings, the assessment of energy performance in the early design stages through simulation is an important, although very demanding and complex, procedure. Over the last decades, various tools and methods have been developed to address performance-related design questions, mostly using Multi-Obje...
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Towards zero emission and zero energy buildings, literature reviews highlight the importance of embodied energy and embodied carbon emissions. The current review analyses 95 case studies of residential buildings, as an effort to identify the range of embodied carbon emissions and the correlation between the share of embodied energy and carbon for d...
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The building sector is responsible for more than 40% of the EU’s total energy consumption. To reduce the energy consumption in buildings and to achieve the EU’s fossil fuel saving targets for 2020 and beyond 2050, the energy efficient retrofitting strategies are critically important and need to be implemented effectively. This paper presents a dyna...
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In this study, three different Typical Weather Years (TWYs) generated in Meteonorm using different techniques are compared with each other and with an actual hourly climate dataset of a calendar year. The impact of different hourly weather files on building's annual energy needs is then assessed via dynamic simulations of a typical building. The an...
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The present study investigates the impact of different intervention scenarios regarding morphological characteristics of an urban district of Thessaloniki on microclimatic parameters such as surface, air and mean radiant temperature distribution during a typical summer day. The proposed intervention scenarios include the total replacement of concre...
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As of 2007 more than half of the world’s population is living in urban areas (a figure expected to rise to 60% by 2030). Thus, the liveability of the high-density city is gradually becoming a central point of focus and concern. A successful skyscraper model of urban planning could provide the possibility to increase city-space vertically as opposed...
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Considering the nearly zero energy building (nZEB) and the increased measures for the improvement of the energy efficiency, the international literature indicates an extended use of specialized materials and technical installations. An increase in the embodied energy follows that use, with a final share between 74% and 100% in the total life cycle...
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During the last decades, standards on building construction have risen sharply to integrate new, ambitious demands regarding energy efficiency, as well as thermal and optical comfort in the design procedure. Building simulation software assists in the accurate calculation of a hypothetical or existing building's performance on several aspects; but...
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Almost four years after the implementation deadline of the energy performance of buildings Directive recast (2010/31/EU) and after being referred to the Court of Justice of the EU by the European Commission, Greece has not yet proceeded with the necessary calculations and legislative measures on the minimum, cost-optimal energy performance requirem...
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In an urban environment, green roofs represent a sustainable solution for mitigating stormwater volumes and hydrograph peaks. So far, many literature studies have investigated the hydraulic efficiency and the subsurface runoff coefficient of green roofs, showing their strong variability according to several factors, including the characteristics of...
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Cladding systems have become an attractive solution in energy renovation of existing buildings since they combine multiple benefits. In such systems, the use of a metallic frame and brackets, which penetrates the thermal insulation layer, creates point thermal bridges that are usually neglected by thermal insulation regulations due to their calcula...
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The paper focuses on the assessment of the windows’ contribution to the energy performance of buildings in the warmer regions of Europe. This is derived by calculating the cooling energy index qc and the area weighted energy needs for different window configurations installed on a reference room for two different building uses, office and residenti...