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WELL Building: Criteria for Residential Buildings in a Developing Country [PDF]

Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2023
Health, well-being, and productivity are the main notions for WELL buildings. Although the WELL building standard does exist to follow when designing a building, the concepts and elements might differ between developed and developing counties and types ...
Salma Husna Zamani, Rahimi A. Rahman, Liyana Mohamed Yusof   +2 more
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Assessment of Building Materials in the European Residential Building Stock: An Analysis at EU27 Level

Sustainability, 2023
Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption in the building sector requires not only improving the energy efficiency of buildings but also minimising material requirements, embodied emissions, and waste generation. Circular Economy (CE)
Claudio Zandonella Callegher, G. Grazieschi, Eric Wilczynski , U. F. Oberegger, S. Pezzutto   +4 more
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Analysis of heating behaviour based on occupancy patterns in residential building with radiant floor heating system [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
To achieve a carbon-neutrality, a reduction of heating energy consumption in residential building should be achieved. Although, lots of building energy policies were implemented to reduce heating energy consumption, it still accounts the largest share of
Shim Jisoo, Song Doo-sam
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A review of residential building archetypes and their applications to study building energy consumption

Architectural Science Review, 2023
In developing economies, residential energy consumption patterns have rapidly transformed with better energy access and service quality. Unlike other building types, residential buildings are more complex due to wide variations in their consumption ...
Bibhu Kalyan Nayak, S. K. Sansaniwal, Jyotirmay Mathur, T. Chandra, V. Garg, Rajat Gupta   +5 more
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Energy Audit of a Residential Building to Reduce Energy Cost and Carbon Footprint for Sustainable Development with Renewable Energy Sources

Advance in Civil Engineering, 2022
Electricity is a crucial part of our everyday lives. A limited number of resources can be utilized to generate power; hence, one must save these resources or electricity for future utilization. This is only possible by using energy most efficiently.
Anagha Darshan, Naman Girdhar, Rohan Bhojwani, Kanish Rastogi, S. Angalaeswari, L. Natrayan, P. Paramasivam   +6 more
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Life Cycle Assessment of Embodied Carbon and Strategies for Decarbonization of a High-Rise Residential Building

Buildings, 2022
The construction sector is responsible for the 40% of consumed resources, 40% of CO2 emissions, and approximately 40% of construction and demolition waste. For the assessment of the building, there exists a standardized method, life cycle assessment (LCA)
B. Alotaibi, S. Khan, M. A. Abuhussain, Nedhal Al-Tamimi, Rana Elnaklah, M. Kamal   +5 more
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Proposed Paradigms for Developing the Building Laws and Legislations of Residential Architecture in Aden City - South Yemen [PDF]

JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2020
Since 1990 to date, Aden City has witnessed several changes which have their negative repercussions on the situation of building in residential areas. During that period several building decisions and laws have been made. Some of these decisions and laws
Mamdouh Ali Yousef, Magdy Mohamed Radwan, Ebtesam AbdAllah Naser Amber   +2 more
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Embodied Carbon Emissions of the Residential Building Stock in the United States and the Effectiveness of Mitigation Strategies

Climate, 2022
According to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction published by the United Nations Environment Programme, global carbon emissions from the building sector in 2019 were nearly 14 gigatons (Gt), representing 38% of total global ...
Ming Hu
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The designed housing projects as an alternative for the informal building and their impact in addressing the heterogeneity of the urban escape in the built residential areas

Journal of Engineering, 2023
The phenomenon of informal building Spread recently in Iraqi residential areas, in general, and in Baghdad, in particular, due to the urgent housing need, on the one hand, and lack of commitment to building controls, on the other hand, to highlight the ...
Wahda Shukur Al-Hinkawi, safaa Aldeen Ali, Anwar Subhi Al-Qaraghuli   +2 more
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Wildfire Smoke Adjustment Factors for Low-Cost and Professional PM_2.5 Monitors with Optical Sensors

Sensors, 2020
Air quality monitors using low-cost optical PM2.5 sensors can track the dispersion of wildfire smoke; but quantitative hazard assessment requires a smoke-specific adjustment factor (AF).
William W. Delp, Brett C. Singer
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