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Rethinking retrofit of residential heritage buildings
Buildings & Cities, 2021 What are the opportunities and challenges for upscaling the energy retrofit of heritage buildings? Heritage buildings comprise approximately 20% of the UK building stock and are challenging to retrofit sensitively because of their heritage values and ...
Freya Wise, Alice Moncaster, Derek Jones
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Integrating low energy cooling and ventilation strategies in Indian residences
Buildings & Cities, 2022 Rapidly developing economies of countries in hot climates face the risk of a significant increase in CO2 emissions. This study developed strategies for low energy cooling and ventilation for Indian residences (LECaVIR). Ventilation and cooling techniques
Malcolm John Cook +7 more
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Automated Residential Energy Audits Using a Smart WiFi Thermostat-Enabled Data Mining Approach
Energies, 2021 Smart WiFi thermostats, when they first reached the market, were touted as a means for achieving substantial heating and cooling energy cost savings. These savings did not materialize until additional features, such as geofencing, were added.
Abdulrahman Alanezi +2 more
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Windows: a study of residents’ perceptions and uses in Sweden
Buildings & Cities, 2021 What are inhabitants’ perceptions and uses of windows in multi-dwelling buildings? This paper reports on a field study that explores daylight, the visual connection to the outside and the role of windows in the home during the day and night.
Kiran Maini Gerhardsson +1 more
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Residential Mortgage Services UK 2021
, 2021 Residential Mortgage Services UK A private home advance is a gigantic long stretch development taken out by at any rate one individuals to buy a home to live in.
Residential Mortgage Services UK
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Retrofit at scale: accelerating capabilities for domestic building stocks
Buildings & Cities, 2021 Highlights Retrofitting domestic buildings is essential for meeting targets to mitigate the catastrophic impacts of our changing climate. Current rates of retrofitting are far lower than necessary for achieving global net zero climate targets. To date in
Faye Wade, Henk Visscher
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Electric Vehicle User Behavior: An Analysis of Charging Station Utilization in Canada
Energies, 2023 For a user-centered deployment of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) infrastructure, it is vital to understand electric vehicle user charging behavior.
Tim Jonas, Noah Daniels, Gretchen Macht
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Interior in Residential Premises That Support Ageing in Place for Older Users
Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2023 One of the effective factors in enabling individuals to age in place and to spend their old age periods more actively and with better quality is the physical environmental characteristics of the dwelling and its immediate surroundings.
Tülay Zorlu, Hande Eyüboğlu
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Residential preferences and residential choices in a multiethnic context [PDF]
Demography, 1992 Abstract A study of the expressed preferences of four different ethnic groups in the Los Angeles metropolitan area shows strong desires for own-race combinations in the ethnicity of neighborhoods that individuals say they would choose when seeking a new residence.
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Residential Satisfaction as an Intervening Variable in Residential Mobility [PDF]
Demography, 1974 Abstract The stress-threshold model (Wolpert, 1965; Brown and Moore, 1970) assumes that people do not consider moving unless they experience residential stress. This paper develops a similar model of residential mobility in which residential satisfaction acts as an intervening variable between individual and residence variables and ...
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