Dr Paula M. Esquivias

Brief Bio

Dr. Paula M. Esquivias is a building scientist with a background on Architecture and Architectural Engineering working on the field of sustainable building design and indoor environmental quality design and assessment. She works as Lecturer at the Department of Architectural Constructions at the University of Granada (UGr), Spain. She has participated in several research projects at the University of Seville (US) and University of Valladolid (Uva), Spain, covering aspects such as daylighting and visual comfort, thermal conditioning, thermal systems, renewable systems and passive strategies for thermal comfort. Her interest of research are about Climate-based Daylight Modelling, Metrics and Requirements, Building Conditioning, Energy Efficiency and Performance Simulations. Particularly, her interest is the global and integral assessment of the parameters involved in the indoor environmental quality and their interaction, to get healthy and low energy buildings. She has published different papers in reputed international journals and conferences and has also reviewed research papers for different high ranked international journals. She is member of the Spanish Commision of Lighting (CEIsp), the Green Building Council Spain (GBCe) and the Spanish Technnical Association of Heating and Cooling (ATECyR). She has also worked as building performance assessor for private companies.

Research areas

• Daylighting
• Climate-based daylight metrics
• Building Energy Performance

Affiliations

Lecturer
University of Granada
Paseo del Cauce nº 59, Valladolid, Spain
Email: paulam.esquivias@ugr.es
Tel: +34-983-423000 (ext.: 4412)
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-m-esquivias/

Publications

Solar radiation entering through openings: coupled assessment of luminous and thermal aspects
Journal: Energy and Buildings
Published: 2018

Optimization method for perforated solar screen design to improve daylighting using orthogonal arrays and climate-based daylight modelling
Journal: Journal of Building Performance Simulation
Published: 2017

A comparison of closed-form and finite-element solutions for heat transfer in a nearly horizontal, unglazed flat plate PVT water collector: Performance assessment
Journal: Solar Energy
Published: 2017

Climate-based daylight analysis of fixed shading devices in an open-plan office
Journal: Lighting Research and Technology
Published: 2016

Analysis of the accuracy of the sky component calculation in daylighting simulation programs
Journal: Solar Energy
Published: 2015

Climate-based daylighting analysis for the effects of location, orientation and obstruction
Journal: Lighting Research and Technology
Published: 2014

Towards Energy Demand Reduction in Social Housing Buildings: Envelope System Optimization Strategies
Journal: Energies
Published: 2012

Daylighting design with lightscoop skylights: Towards an optimization of proportion and spacing under overcast sky conditions
Journal: Energy and Buildings
Published: 2012