By Dr Gloria Pignatta

Conference Papers

Manapragada NVSK; Pignatta G, 2021, 'CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE BUILDING SKINS FOR BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION AND UHI MITIGATION: TRANSIENT BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION WITH THERMOCHROMIC COATINGS', in CEES2021 Proceedings, Portugal, presented at CEES2021, Portugal, https://cees2021.uc.pt/projectos/cees2020/atas/pdfs/ID25.pdf

Pignatta G, 2020, 'A simplified approach for designing sustainable Near Zero Energy Settlements', in Soares Gonçalves JC (ed.), Planning Post Carbon Cities: 35th PLEA Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, A Coruña, 1st-3rd September 2020: Proceedings, Universidade da Coruna, A Coruña, Spain, presented at PLEA2020, A Coruña, Spain, 01 September 2020 - 03 September 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.17979/spudc.9788497497947

Pignatta G, 2019, 'Modeling and simulation of radiative cooling materials for microclimate analysis', Singapore, presented at ICCM2019, Singapore, 09 July 2019 - 13 July 2019

Santos L; Pignatta G; Nevat I; Norford L, 2019, 'Climate-informed decision-making for urban design: Assessing the impact of urban morphology on urban heat island', Hyderabad, India, presented at IC2UHI2019, Hyderabad, India, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27948

Meier IA; Isaac S; Kolokotsa D; Gobakis K; Pignatta G, 2019, 'Towards Zero Energy Settlements – A brief note on commissioning and POE within the EU ZeroPlus Settlements', in IOP Conference Series : Earth and Environmental Science, IOP Publishing, Thessaloniki, pp. 012038 - 012038, presented at SBE19, Thessaloniki, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/410/1/012038

Pignatta G, 2019, 'An extensive study on the relationship between energy use, indoor thermal comfort, and health in social housing', Bari, Italy, presented at PLEA 2020, Bari, Italy

Pignatta G; Acero JA; Koh E; Rufenacht L; Li X; Norford LK, 2018, 'Improving Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Singapore By Implementing Green Mitigation Strategies: A Sensitivity Analysis', The City College of New York, NY, presented at 10th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC10) - 14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, The City College of New York, NY, 06 August 2018 - 10 August 2018

Acero JA; Pignatta G; Koh E; Rufenacht LA; Li X; Norford LK, 2018, 'Influence of Height and Thermal Characteristics of Green Facades in Pedestrian Thermal Comfort', The City College of New York, NY, presented at 10th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC10) - 14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, The City College of New York, NY, 06 August 2018 - 10 August 2018

Acero JA; Pignatta G; Norford LK, 2018, 'Use of Clustered Meteorological Data for Microclimate and Thermal Comfort Analysis in a Tropical Area', The City College of New York, NY, presented at 10th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC10) - 14th Symposium on the Urban Environment, The City College of New York, NY, 06 August 2018 - 10 August 2018

Pignatta G; Li X; Norford LK, 2017, 'Goals and approach of the "Cooling Singapore" project', Perugia, Italy, presented at 17th CIRIAF National Congress, Perugia, Italy, 06 April 2017 - 07 April 2017

Artopoulos G; Pignatta G; Santamouris M, 2017, 'From the sum of Near-Zero Energy buildings to the whole of a Near-Zero Energy housing settlement: the role of communal spaces in performance-driven design', London, presented at Living and Sustainability: An Environmental Critique of Design and Building Practices, Locally and Globally. AMPS, London, 09 February 2017 - 10 February 2017

Pignatta G; Chatzinikola C; Artopoulos G; Papanicolas CN; Serghides DK; Santamouris M, 2016, 'Winter survey on the indoor environmental quality in low and very low income households in Cyprus', Singapore, presented at 4th IC2UHI, Singapore, 30 May 2016 - 01 June 2016

Chatzinikola CK; Pignatta G; Serghides D; Santamouris M, 2016, 'Winter Indoor Thermal Comfort in Low Income Households in Cyprus', Nicosia, Cyprus, presented at 5th International Conference on RES and EE, Nicosia, Cyprus, 05 May 2016 - 06 May 2016

Pignatta G; Pisello AL; Cotana F, 2016, 'Environmental analysis of innovative and sustainable "cool skins" for building roofs', Assisi, Italy, presented at 16th CIRIAF congress, Assisi, Italy, 07 April 2016 - 09 April 2016

Pisello AL; Piselli C; Pignatta G; Fabiani C; Ubertini F; Cotana F; Santamouris M, 2016, 'Net Zero Energy settlements in Europe: first findings of the Zero-Plus Horizon 2020 project', Assisi, Italy, presented at 16th CIRIAF National Congress, Assisi, Italy, 07 April 2016 - 09 April 2016

Aquino A; Barbanera M; Belloni E; Bianchi C; Cappellini P; Castaldo VL; Castellani F; Coccia V; Cotana F; Cotana S; Goretti M; Moretti E; Piscini F; Pisello AL; Palladino D; Pertosa M; Petrozzi A; Pignatta G; Presciutti A; Rotili A; Vergoni M, 2015, 'Energy performance certification of offices and education buildings: the case study of the University of Perugia', Bologna, Italy, presented at 33rd Convegno Nazionale AICARR, Bologna, Italy, 15 October 2015 - 15 October 2015

Pisello AL; Pignatta G; Piselli C; Castaldo VL; Cotana F, 2015, 'Effect of dynamic characteristics of building envelope on thermal performance in summer conditions: in field experiment', Perugia, Italy, presented at 15th CIRIAF National Congress, Perugia, Italy, 09 April 2015 - 11 April 2015

Pisello AL; Castaldo VL; Piselli C; Pignatta G; Cotana F, 2015, 'Combined thermal effect of cool roof and cool facade on a prototype building', Turin, Italy, pp. 1556 - 1561, presented at 6th International building physics conference (IBPC), Turin, Italy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.205

Rosso F; Pisello AL; Pignatta G; Castaldo VL; Piselli C; Cotana F; Ferrero M, 2015, 'Outdoor thermal and visual perception of natural cool materials for roof and urban paving', Chicago, USA, pp. 1325 - 1332, presented at International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction (ICSDEC), Chicago, USA, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.11.394

Pisello AL; Castaldo VL; Pignatta G; Cotana F, 2014, 'Evaluation of the thermal-energy performance of naturally "cool" gravel covering for cool roof and cool pavement application: a case study', Venice, Italy, presented at 3rd IC2UHI, Venice, Italy, 13 October 2014 - 15 October 2014

Pisello AL; Castaldo VL; Pignatta G; Cotana F, 2014, 'Experimental analysis of the thermal-optical properties of polyurethane waterproof liquid membrane for cool roof application', Venice, Italy, presented at 3rd IC2UHI, Venice, Italy, 13 October 2014 - 15 October 2014

Cotana F; Pisello AL; Cotana S; Petrozzi A; Pignatta G; Cesari G; Colauta F, 2014, 'Energy use and enhancement of biomasses around water resources', Perugia, presented at 5th World Lake Conference, Perugia, 01 September 2014 - 05 September 2014

Pisello AL; Pignatta G; Castaldo VL; Cotana F, 2014, 'The effect of lake microclimate on thermal-energy behavior of buildings', Perugia, Italy, presented at 15th World Lake Conference, Perugia, Italy, 01 September 2014 - 05 September 2014

Bonamente E; Merico MC; Rinaldi S; Pignatta G; Pisello AL; Cotana F; Nicolini A, 2014, 'Environmental impact of industrial prefabricated buildings: Carbon and Energy Footprint analysis based on an LCA approach', Taipei, Taiwan, presented at The 6th International Conference on Applied Energy – ICAE2014, Taipei, Taiwan, 30 May 2014 - 02 June 2014

Pisello AL; Castaldo VL; Pignatta G; Cotana F, 2014, 'Experimental analysis of natural gravel covering as cool roof and cool pavement', Perugia, Italy, presented at 14th CIRIAF National Congress, Perugia, Italy, 04 April 2014 - 05 April 2014

Bonamente E; Merico MC; Rinaldi S; Pignatta G; Pisello AL; Cotana F; Nicolini A, 2014, 'Environmental impact of industrial prefabricated buildings: Carbon and Energy Footprint analysis based on an LCA approach', in Energy Procedia, pp. 2841 - 2844, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.12.319

Rossi F; Cotana F; Coccia V; Pisello AL; Bonamente E; Palombo M; Pignatta G; Morini E, 2013, 'Modelling of Urban Canyon: Analytical and experimental remarks', Athens, Greece, presented at 34th AIVC Conference, Athens, Greece, 25 September 2013 - 26 September 2013

Conference Posters

Abousaeidi M; Pignatta G; Nazarian N, 2023, 'Developing a decision-making tool for utilizing low-cost retrofit techniques to reduce heat gain in social housing', Sydney, presented at ICUC-11, Sydney, 28 August 2023 - 01 September 2023

Pignatta G; Naderi S; Heslop S; Chen D; Sproul A; Macgill I, 2023, 'Investigating pre-cooling benefits through varying building envelope optical properties: Enhancing energy efficiency and thermal comfort in the Australian residential sector', Sydney, presented at ICUC-11, Sydney, 28 August 2023 - 01 September 2023

Naderi S; Pignatta G; Heslop S; Chen D; Sproul A; Macgill I, 2023, 'Solar pre-cooling during heatwaves: reducing thermal discomfort in residential buildings', Sydney, presented at ICUC-11, Sydney, 28 August 2023 - 01 September 2023

Naderi S; Heslop S; Chen D; MacGill I; Pignatta G; Sproul A, 2022, 'Data-driven assessment of solar pre-cooling and pre-heating in Australian housing', Milan, presented at WCPEC-8, Milan, 26 September 2022 - 30 September 2022

Pignatta G; Li X; Norford LK, 2017, 'Mitigate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon to improve thermal comfort in outdoor areas of tropical Singapore'

Pignatta G, 2017, 'Overview Urban Airshed, Urban Heat Island and thermal comfort'

Conference Presentations

Pignatta G, 2023, 'Optimising external walls' insulation for cost-effectiveness and environmental impact: An evaluation of geopolymer thermal insulation systems in New South Wales, Australia', presented at CEES 2023, Funchal, Portugal, 27 June 2023 - 30 June 2023

Pignatta G, 2023, 'A noise barrier to mitigate low as well as high frequency noise', presented at Acoustics 23, Sydney

Pignatta G, 2022, 'Novel and Sustainable Geopolymer Material for Building Elements', presented at Med Green Forum 2022, Florence, Italy, 20 July 2022 - 22 July 2022

Pignatta G, 2022, 'Solar pre-cooling: Pros, Cons, and Opportunities', presented at IAQVEC technical seminar series 2021-2022, 13 January 2022, https://youtu.be/87a_whefANA

Pignatta G; Balazadeh N, 2021, 'ASSESSMENT OF HYBRID VEHICLES USING PORTABLE EMISSION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (PEMS) AS A TRANSITION FOR FULL E-MOBILITY ACHIEVEMENT IN POSITIVE ENERGY DISTRICTS', presented at CEES2021, Portugal, https://cees2021.uc.pt/projectos/cees2020/atas/pdfs/ID37.pdf

Pignatta G, 2019, 'Targeting Net-Zero Energy Settlements: the Italian journey in the Zero-Plus framework.', presented at 6th Jeffrey Cook Workshop in Desert Architecture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Marcus Family Campus, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 25 November 2019 - 26 November 2019

Conference Abstracts

Abousaedi M; Nazarian N; Pignatta G, 2025, 'To what extent can passive thermal retrofits address climate extremes in non-HVAC social housing?', in AHRC 2025, Sydney, presented at AHRC2025, Sydney, 18 February 2025 - 21 February 2025

Pignatta G, 2023, 'Effect of solar pre-cooling on reducing thermal discomfort in residential buildings during heat waves', in IC2UHI 2023, Melbourne, presented at 6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (IC2UHI 2023), Melbourne

Shayan N; Heslop S; Chen D; Macgill I; Pignatta G; Sproul A, 2022, 'Data-Driven Assessment of Solar Pre-Cooling and Pre-Heating in Australian Residential Housing', in WCPEC-8 proceedings, Milan, presented at WCPEC-8, Milan, 26 September 2022 - 30 September 2022

Meier I; Isaac S; Kolokotsa D; Gobakis K; Pignatta G, 2020, 'A brief note on commissioning and POE within the EU Zero-Plus Settlements', in IAQ Conference, Athens, Greece, presented at IAQ2020, Athens, Greece, 14 September 2020 - 16 September 2020

Pignatta G, 2019, 'A simplified approach for designing sustainable Near Zero Energy Settlements Environmental impact analysis applied in the framework of the European ZERO-PLUS project', in PLEA2020, A Corugna, Spain, presented at PLEA2020, A Corugna, Spain, 01 September 2019 - 02 September 2019

Reports

Easthope H; Palmer J; Sharam A; Nethercote M; Pignatta G; Crommelin L, 2023, Delivering sustainable apartment housing: New build and retrofit, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne, 400, http://dx.doi.org/10.18408/ahuri7128201, https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/final-reports/400,%20doi:%2010.18408/ahuri7128201

Saliari M; Laskari M; Assimakopoulos M-N; Mavrigiannaki A; Kostas G; Kolokotsa D; Pignatta G; Piselli C; Pisello AL; Carlucci S; Kyprianou M; Jolivel T; Meir I, 2021, D7.7: REPORT ON THE ENERGY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF FOUR NET ZERO ENERGY SETTLEMENTS, https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5d93cb8e0&appId=PPGMS

Santamouris M; Haddad S; Garshasbi S; Paolini R; Yang J; Mohan Kumar DI; Barker A; Pignatta G, 2019, Current and Future Energy and Environmental Quality of the Built Environment in Darwin

Santamouris M; Yang J; Haddad S; Paolini R; Pignatta G, 2019, Development of a Building Energy Legislation for Comoros

Santamouris M; Yang J; Haddad S; Paolini R; Pignatta G, 2019, Development of a Building Energy Legislation for Madagascar

Santamouris M; Yang J; Haddad S; Paolini R; Pignatta G, 2019, Development of a Building Energy Legislation for Mauritus

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