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Water savings and urban storm water management: Evaluation of the potentiality of rainwater harvesting systems from the building to the city scale

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
The main potential benefits of rainwater harvesting, namely water saving and storm water management, are easily evaluable at a building scale when well-known behavioral models are used. However, the evaluation is often more complex at an urban scale, due
Matteo Carollo   +2 more
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Building stock energy modelling in the UK: the 3DStock method and the London Building Stock Model

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2020
A brief history is provided of models of energy use in the UK building stock, with the focus on the non-domestic sector. This history leads to an account of the development, since 2009, of the 3DStock method for modelling complete building stocks, both ...
Philip Steadman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Energy use intensities in London houses

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2021
This research compares domestic metered energy data, for both gas and electricity consumption, against characteristics drawn from a building stock model of Greater London, UK.
Rob Liddiard   +6 more
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A Semantically Data-Driven Classification Framework for Energy Consumption in Buildings

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Encouraged by the European Union, all European countries need to enforce solutions to reduce non-renewable energy consumption in buildings. The reduction of energy (heating, domestic hot water, and appliances consumption) aims for the vision of near-zero
Angela Popa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of occupants’ behaviour on energy and carbon emission reduction in a higher education building in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article focuses on one of the case studies in the Carbon Brainprint research project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Chatterton, J., D. Parsons, J. Nicholls, P. Longhurst, M. Bernon, A. Palmer, F. Brennan, et al.
Box, William   +4 more
core   +1 more source

CONTAMINATION ASSESSMENT OF WATER RESOURCES AROUND WASTE DUMPSITES IN ABAKALIKI, NIGERIA; A MINI REVIEW [PDF]

open access: yesJournal CleanWAS, 2021
Monitoring of water quality is needed from time to time to avoid outbreak of severe water borne disease. This article review previous literature on impact of waste dumpsites on water quality around Abakaliki and its environs, with emphasis on active and ...
Ruth Oghenerukevwe Eyankware Ulakpa   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Presence of Waddlia chondrophila in hot water systems from non-domestic buildings in France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Postprint (author's final ...
Agustí Adalid, Gemma   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

An Innovative Solar-Biomass Energy System to Increase the Share of Renewables in Office Buildings

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Increasing the energy efficiency of residential and non-residential buildings is a crucial point towards the development of the sustainable cities of the future.
Valeria Palomba   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating energy performance in non-domestic buildings: A review

open access: yesEnergy and Buildings, 2016
Evaluation methods can be used to determine what constitutes good energy performance in a building. With an increasing focus on energy use of buildings worldwide, this evaluation assumes a fundamental importance. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the available methods for analysing, classifying, benchmarking, rating and evaluating energy ...
E.H. Borgstein   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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