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Overview

Fabrizio Ascione is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and has a research focus primarily in engineering and environmental science. Their work extensively covers building energy and comfort optimization, as well as related fields such as environmental engineering and sustainable building design.

Their research topics include:

  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Energy Efficiency and Management
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Facilities and Workplace Management
  • Smart Grid Energy Management

Frequently published venues include:

  • Energy and Buildings
  • 2022 7th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)
  • Journal of Building Engineering
  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • Journal of Cleaner Production

Major recent publications by Ascione include:

  • "A real industrial building: Modeling, calibration and Pareto optimization of energy retrofit" (2020) published in Journal of Building Engineering
  • "Green Walls, a Critical Review: Knowledge Gaps, Design Parameters, Thermal Performances and Multi-Criteria Design Approaches" (2020) published in Energies
  • "The evolution of building energy retrofit via double-skin and responsive façades: A review" (2021) published in Solar Energy
  • "The role of the occupant behavior in affecting the feasibility of energy refurbishment of residential buildings: Typical effective retrofits compromised by typical wrong habits" (2020) published in Energy and Buildings
  • "Conceptual design of integrated seismic and energy retrofit interventions" (2021) published in Journal of Building Engineering (co-authored by Costantino Menna)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Fabrizio Ascione include:

  • Nicola Bianco
  • Gerardo Maria Mauro
  • Margherita Mastellone
  • Teresa Iovane
  • Giuseppe Peter Vanoli

Their scholarly contributions cover subfields such as building and construction, environmental engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, and social psychology with a notable emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering.

Ascione's research output reflects an intersection of technical and environmental perspectives aimed at advancing knowledge in energy retrofit, sustainable building practices, and occupant behavioral impact on energy consumption in the built environment.

Best Publications

  • Energy refurbishment of existing buildings through the use of phase change materials: Energy savings and indoor comfort in the cooling season

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Rosa Francesca De Masi;Filippo de’ Rossi

  • Green roofs in European climates. Are effective solutions for the energy savings in air-conditioning?

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Filippo de’ Rossi;Gianluca Turni

  • Artificial neural networks to predict energy performance and retrofit scenarios for any member of a building category: A novel approach

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Claudio De Stasio;Gerardo Maria Mauro

  • Building envelope design: Multi-objective optimization to minimize energy consumption, global cost and thermal discomfort. Application to different Italian climatic zones

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Gerardo Maria Mauro;Davide Ferdinando Napolitano

  • Earth-to-air heat exchangers for Italian climates

    Fabrizio Ascione;Laura Bellia;Francesco Minichiello

  • Simulation-based model predictive control by the multi-objective optimization of building energy performance and thermal comfort

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Claudio De Stasio;Gerardo Maria Mauro

  • Energy retrofit of historical buildings: theoretical and experimental investigations for the modelling of reliable performance scenarios

    Fabrizio Ascione;Filippo de Rossi;Giuseppe Peter Vanoli

  • Multi-stage and multi-objective optimization for energy retrofitting a developed hospital reference building: A new approach to assess cost-optimality

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Claudio De Stasio;Gerardo Maria Mauro

  • A new methodology for cost-optimal analysis by means of the multi-objective optimization of building energy performance

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Claudio De Stasio;Gerardo Maria Mauro

  • Optimization of building envelope design for nZEBs in Mediterranean climate: Performance analysis of residential case study

    Fabrizio Ascione;Rosa Francesca De Masi;Filippo de Rossi;Silvia Ruggiero

  • Energy retrofit of an educational building in the ancient center of Benevento. Feasibility study of energy savings and respect of the historical value

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Rosa Francesca De Masi;Filippo de’Rossi

  • Energy conservation and renewable technologies for buildings to face the impact of the climate change and minimize the use of cooling

    Fabrizio Ascione

  • Design of the Building Envelope: A Novel Multi-Objective Approach for the Optimization of Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Rosa Francesca De Masi;Gerardo Maria Mauro

  • CASA, cost-optimal analysis by multi-objective optimisation and artificial neural networks: A new framework for the robust assessment of cost-optimal energy retrofit, feasible for any building

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Claudio De Stasio;Gerardo Maria Mauro

  • Energy retrofit of educational buildings: Transient energy simulations, model calibration and multi-objective optimization towards nearly zero-energy performance

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Rosa Francesca De Masi;Gerardo Maria Mauro

  • Energy saving strategies in air-conditioning for museums

    Fabrizio Ascione;Laura Bellia;Alfonso Capozzoli;Francesco Minichiello

  • Resilience of robust cost-optimal energy retrofit of buildings to global warming: A multi-stage, multi-objective approach

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Rosa Francesca De Masi;Gerardo Maria Mauro

  • Analysis and diagnosis of the energy performance of buildings and districts: Methodology, validation and development of Urban Energy Maps

    Fabrizio Ascione;Rosa Francesca De Masi;Filippo de Rossi;Romano Fistola

  • A new comprehensive framework for the multi-objective optimization of building energy design: Harlequin

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Gerardo Maria Mauro;Giuseppe Peter Vanoli

  • Rehabilitation of the building envelope of hospitals: Achievable energy savings and microclimatic control on varying the HVAC systems in Mediterranean climates

    Fabrizio Ascione;Nicola Bianco;Rosa Francesca De Masi;Giuseppe Peter Vanoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Peter Vanoli
Giuseppe Peter Vanoli University of Molise
Nicola Bianco
Nicola Bianco University of Naples Federico II
Mattheos Santamouris
Mattheos Santamouris University of New South Wales
Maurizio Sasso
Maurizio Sasso University of Sannio
Francesca Ceroni
Francesca Ceroni Imperial College London
Andrea Prota
Andrea Prota University of Naples Federico II
Marco Di Ludovico
Marco Di Ludovico University of Naples Federico II
Anna Laura Pisello
Anna Laura Pisello University of Perugia

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