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Paula Martin-Goñi, Jaume Avellaneda and Josep María González
The aim of this paper is to explore the rehabilitation strategies for multi-family dwellings on the level of function and techniques. The study employs its own methods of analysis using a sample of selected cases as a reference. Nearly 20% of EU building...
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Juliana May Sangoi, Taylana Piccinini Scolaro and Enedir Ghisi
The performance of water heating systems must be evaluated considering energy consumption and efficiency in storing and distributing hot water, together with building and climate characteristics. This work aims to analyse the performance of different wat...
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Bader Alaifan and Elie Azar
A net-zero energy community (NZEC) is a promising paradigm that can directly contribute to a sustainable building sector and infrastructure. This research presents a unique empirical techno-economic optimization and evaluation approach for NZEC potential...
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Jorge Cárdenas-Rangel, German Osma-Pinto and Julián Jaramillo-Ibarra
The energy characterization of buildings can be done by bottom-up methods such as energy simulation models (samples or archetypes). A sample consists of the selection of real buildings and an archetype is a theoretical building that represents them. Neve...
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Grant Mosey and Brian Deal
The United States faces twin crises of housing affordability and environmental degradation. Under these clouds, the nation is experiencing an explosive growth in new construction multi-family housing. This paper seeks to evaluate how designers might opti...
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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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Daniel Satola, Martin Röck, Aoife Houlihan-Wiberg and Arild Gustavsen
Improving the environmental life cycle performance of buildings by focusing on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along the building life cycle is considered a crucial step in achieving global climate targets. This paper provides a systemati...
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Michael Wurm, Ariane Droin, Thomas Stark, Christian Geiß, Wolfgang Sulzer and Hannes Taubenböck
Cities are responsible for a large share of the global energy consumption. A third of the total greenhouse gas emissions are related to the buildings sector, making it an important target for reducing urban energy consumption. Detailed data on the buildi...
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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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Artur Wyrwa and Yi-kuang Chen
This article presents a bottom-up approach for calculation of the useful heat demand for space heating and hot water preparation using geo-referenced datasets for buildings at the city level. This geographic information system (GIS) based approach was ap...
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