Buildings, 2013 The UK government, responding to concerns over climate change impacts, has undertaken to reduce CO2 emissions to 80% of 1990 levels by 2050. This scale of reduction will require major improvements in the energy efficiency of the existing UK building ...
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Sustainable Design of a Nearly Zero Energy Building Facilitated by a Smart Microgrid
Journal of Renewable Energy, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014 One of the emerging milestones in building construction is the development of nearly zero energy buildings (NZEBs). This complex concept is defined as buildings that on a yearly average consume as much energy as they generate using renewable energy sources.
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Defining absolute environmental limits for the built environment [PDF]
, 2006 The question addressed is whether it is possible to define working limits on environmental impacts from the built environment in terms of global carrying capacity.
Lowe, R
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Long Term Experience of the Passivhaus Standard in North East England: Does Airtightness Decay? [PDF]
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A new way of thinking about environmental building standards: Developing and demonstrating a client-led zero-energy standard [PDF]
, 2015 There are over 70 low energy and carbon standards in use around the world. None of these standards have been designed by the clients who pay for and occupy the buildings in question.
Coley, D, Mitchell, A, Parkin, A
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2019 In tropical climates ventilation introduces high levels of moisture into dwellings, leading to raised values of indoor relative humidity and air temperatures, creating occupant thermal discomfort.
R. Sigalingging, D. Chow, S. Sharples
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Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) for building construction industry - A review of the contemporary developments and future directions [PDF]
, 2011 This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Applied Energy. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and ...
Alam, M, Limbachiya, MC, Singh, H
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Lessons learnt from design, off-site construction and performance analysis of deep energy retrofit of residential buildings [PDF]
, 2019 The article introduces the process of deep energy retrofit carried out on a residential building in the UK, using a ‘TCosy’ approach in which the existing building is completely surrounded by a new thermal envelope. It reports on the entire process, from
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In-use Energy Performance Study Of Automated Smart Homes
Journal of Sustainable Design and Applied Research in Innovative Engineering of the Built Environment, 2019 Domestic energy demand has been high on the carbon reduction agenda for some time. Today new homes are being designed following the “fabric first” principle which is reducing heat demand, but it is shifting the design challenge to ventilation.
J. MIles, K. A. Kelly, P. Sassi
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Low energy housing retrofit in North England: Overheating risks and possible mitigation strategies [PDF]
, 2018 In the drive to reduce space-heating demand and associated CO2 emissions as well as tackle fuel poverty, dwelling overheating and summer-time occupant thermal discomfort might be the unintended consequences of low-energy building retrofits.
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