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Dalia Streimikiene and Tomas Balezentis
The paper deals with the problems linked to the energy renovation of multi-apartment buildings and developed a case study in Lithuania with the aim to assess the household?s willingness to pay for energy renovation and to define the main barriers prevent...
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Manuela Almeida, Ricardo Barbosa and Raphaele Malheiro
A large-scale energy renovation intervention in existing buildings has been consistently presented as the most significant opportunity to contribute to achieving the European targets for 2030 and 2050. One of the key points for such achievement is the co...
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Martin Eriksson, Jan Akander and Bahram Moshfegh
This paper focuses on multi-family buildings in a Swedish city district, erected between 1965 and 1973, which are now in need of renovation. For the two types of multi-family buildings in the district, tower buildings and low-rise buildings, dynamic ener...
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Manuela Almeida, Marco Ferreira and Ricardo Barbosa
The construction sector is facing increasingly strict energy efficiency regulations. Existing buildings have specific technical, functional and economic constraints, which, in fulfilling regulations, could lead to costly and complex renovation procedures...
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Qinqin Deng, Ming Shan, Guangchuan Zhang, Shengnan Zhang, Yanqing Liu and Xudong Yang
Compared with that in cities, energy efficiency of rural houses is lagging behind, with high total energy consumption, low efficiency and poor indoor thermal environment. Beijing is the first area to promote the energy-saving renovation of existing rural...
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Barbara Eschen Danielsen, Morten Niels Baxter and Per Sieverts Nielsen
Implementation of a new European Union directive on energy renovation in Denmark can be expected to have a strong impact on the country?s energy renovation requirements. Accordingly, an indicator framework has been developed with the aim of identifying a...
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Jong-Won Lee
Enhancing the efficiency of windows is important for improving the energy efficiency of buildings. The Korean government has performed numerous building renovation projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate energy poverty. To reduce the cos...
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Jesús Las-Heras-Casas, Luis M. López-Ochoa, Luis M. López-González and Pablo Olasolo-Alonso
One of the greatest challenges facing the European Union is the conversion of the existing residential building stock into nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEBs) by 2050 through energy renovation, given that the residential sector is one of the largest con...
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Vlatko Milic, Shahnaz Amiri and Bahram Moshfegh
The economic and environmental performance of a district heating (DH) system is to a great extent affected by the size and dynamic behavior of the DH load. By implementing energy efficiency measures (EEMs) to increase a building?s thermal performance and...
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Annette Henning
This article argues for the importance of recognizing local energy dilemmas and injustices that may arise in the wake of energy saving ambitions. Such energy justice dilemmas can occur anywhere, even in the wealthier parts of the world. Qualitative inter...
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Moa Swing Gustafsson, Jonn Are Myhren, Erik Dotzauer and Marcus Gustafsson
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Anti Hamburg and Targo Kalamees
The aim of the renovation of apartment buildings is to lower the energy consumption of those buildings, mainly the heating energy consumption. There are few analyses regarding those other energy consumptions which are also related to the primary energy n...
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Mikael Mangold, Magnus Österbring, Conny Overland, Tim Johansson and Holger Wallbaum
The European building stock was renewed at a rapid pace during the period 1950–1975. In many European countries, the building stock from this time needs to be renovated, and there are opportunities to introduce energy efficiency measures in the ren...
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Roberta Moschetti and Helge Brattebø
Buildings currently play a fundamental role for the achievement of the sustainable development goals as they are responsible for several environmental, social, and economic impacts. Energy renovation projects of existing buildings can support the reducti...
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Lovisa Högberg, Hans Lind and Kristina Grange
Sweden has adopted ambitious energy savings objectives for buildings, but at the current rate of energy efficiency investments the objectives are unlikely to be reached. In this article we report the early findings of how real estate owners reason and ac...
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Lovisa Högberg, Hans Lind and Kristina Grange
Sweden has adopted ambitious energy savings objectives for buildings, but at the current rate of energy efficiency investments the objectives are unlikely to be reached. In this article we report the early findings of how real estate owners reason and ac...
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Lina La Fleur, Patrik Rohdin and Bahram Moshfegh
This study addresses the life cycle costs (LCC) of energy renovation, and the demolition and construction of a new building. A comparison is made between LCC optimal energy renovations of four different building types with thermal performance, representi...
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Vidhyalakshmi Chandrasekaran, Jolanta Dvarioniene, Ausrine Vitkute and Giedrius Gecevicius
In Europe, more than 75% of buildings are energy inefficient according to current energy standards. These buildings account for 40% of total energy consumption. Therefore, addressing the energy efficiency of existing buildings through various renovation ...
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Marta Maria Sesana, Graziano Salvalai, Diletta Brutti, Corinne Mandin and Wenjuan Wei
Since 2002, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) has set up the path to improve the efficiency gains in the EU building sector, including measures that should accelerate the rate of building renovation towards more energy efficient system...
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Ming Hu
A comprehensive case study on life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) was conducted on a two- story education building with a projected 40-year lifespan in College Park, Maryland. The aim of this paper was to (1) create a life cycle assessment model, using an ed...
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