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Impact of climate change on the existing residential building stock in Turkey: An analysis on energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and occupant comfort

Renewable Energy, 2019
With the growing need for residential buildings as a result of population growth, the building sector is a high-priority area in climate change due to its large share of CO2 emissions, the significant energy saving opportunities it represents, and the ...
I. Dino, Çağla Meral Akgül
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Residential and commercial buildings

2012
In 2004, emissions from the buildings sector including through electricity use were about 8.6 GtCO2, 0.1 GtCO2-eq N2O, 0.4 GtCO2-eq CH4 and 1.5 GtCO2-eq halocarbons (including CFCs and HCFCs). Using an accounting system that attributes CO2 emissions to electricity supply rather than buildings end-uses, the direct energy-related carbon dioxide emissions
Levine, Mark   +11 more
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Residential building material stocks and component-level circularity: The case of Singapore

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
The residential built environment plays a crucial role in supporting many human activities. In urban areas however, high-rise residential buildings require significant investment of material resources, which are stacked for a long time over the building ...
M. Arora   +3 more
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Assessment of water consumption during production of material and construction phases of residential building projects

Sustainable cities and society, 2019
The growing global water crisis highlights the importance of the assessment of the amount of virtual water consumption -water consumed during production of material and construction- in residential building projects.
G. Heravi, M. Abdolvand
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Multi-criteria evaluation of medium-sized residential building with micro-CHP system in South Korea

Energy and Buildings, 2019
In this study, a medium-sized residential building is analyzed when an internal combustion engine-based combined heating and power (CHP) system is applied.
Yujun Jung, Joonbyum Kim, Hoseong Lee
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A Novel framework for integrating United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into sustainable non-residential building assessment and management in Jordan

Sustainable cities and society, 2019
Across the world, governments have developed strategies to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Sustainable buildings perform a significant function toward achieving the UN SDGs. Currently, there is a lack of information on
Rami Alawneh   +3 more
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Optimal decarbonization pathways for urban residential building energy services

Applied Energy, 2018
Strategies for decarbonizing residential building energy services can be divided into three categories: (1) shifting to less carbon-intensive fuels in the building energy supply mix, (2) adopting more energy-efficient end-use appliances, and (3 ...
B. Leibowicz   +5 more
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