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Twenty first century standards for thermal comfort : fostering low carbon building design and operation [PDF]
, 2010 Nearly 50% of energy consumed in the developed world is consumed in buildings. Despite regulation intent, many new buildings are energy profligate. Thermal comfort standards are partly responsible for this increase in consumption. In this volume, Roaf et
Boerstra, A. +4 more
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Multistage Optimization toward a Nearly Net Zero Energy Building Due to Climate Change
Energies, 2022 Climate change is one of the major problems of the planet. The atmosphere is overloaded with carbon dioxide caused by fossil fuels that are burned for energy.
Kimiya Aram +2 more
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Development of the NZEBs concept in Member States: Towards nearly zero energy buildings in Europe. [PDF]
, 2016 The current energy policy framework foresees a substantial reduction of energy consumption in buildings by 2020. According to the recast of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD), Nearly zero energy buildings (NZEBs) represent the European ...
D'AGOSTINO Delia, ZANGHERI Paolo
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Energies, 2020 With the increasing number of nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB) due to increase of global awareness on climate change, the new concepts of design and control must be developed because of great NZEB dependency on detailing and multidisciplinary approach.
Sanjin Gumbarević +3 more
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Development of prefabricated retrofit module towards nearly zero energy buildings [PDF]
, 2013 The building sector is an energy intensive sector, with great potential to reduce energy needs and environmental pollution. Several measures are being taken to increase the energy efficiency and avoid energy consumption in this sector.
Balaras +17 more
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Energy Exploration & Exploitation, 2021 To achieve zero-energy building target, both China and the US have planned pathway by formulating guidelines and standards. China has published National China technical standard for nearly zero energy building (CTS-NZEB), which defines detailed ...
Yiting Kang +5 more
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Feasibility Study and Passive Design of Nearly Zero Energy Building on Rural Houses in Xi’an, China
Buildings, 2022 Since the advent of reforms and opening-up of China, the focus has been on urban development. However, rural development has garnered attention in recent years.
Han Chang +4 more
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Retrofit of a UK residential property to achieve nearly zero energy building standard [PDF]
, 2018 It is currently agreed upon that one of the major challenges in the construction industry is the energy efficiency of existing buildings. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and United Nations (UN) have reported that the concentration of global ...
Bahadori-Jahromi, Ali +4 more
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Applying Renewable Energy Technologies in an Integrated Optimization Method for Residential Building’s Design [PDF]
, 2019 Designing a Zero Energy Building (ZEB) requires an optimal choice of the materials of a building envelope. Different material properties and window areas could be selected to generate a set of possibilities of the design of a building, being the demand
Aparicio Ruiz, Pablo +3 more
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Buildings, 2021 Container-based lightweight buildings offer a high ecologic and economic potential when they are designed as nearly zero-energy container buildings (NZECBs).
Johannes Koke +5 more
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