Energy Retrofitting Technologies of Buildings: A Review-Based Assessment
Energies, 2023 Demand for energy and resources is increasing day by day. The construction industry plays a major role in the consumption of energy and resources. Buildings that were built before energy-efficient sustainable practices became popular consume a larger ...
U. G. D. Madushika +3 more
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The District Energy-Efficient Retrofitting of Torrelago (Laguna de Duero – Spain) [PDF]
, 2019 The urban growth is estimated to reach up the 66 % by 2050 and consequently the need of resources within the cities will increase significantly. This, combined with the 40 % of energy consumption and 36 % of CO2 emissions of the building sector, makes ...
Arrizabalaga, E +10 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Climate change impacts have been increasingly noticeable worldwide, especially as energy concerns have increased. Because buildings consume significant amounts of energy, sustainably retrofitting existing buildings has become essential.
Shouib Nouh Ma'bdeh +3 more
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Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams Retrofitted with Modularized Steel Plates
Applied Sciences, 2021 Many structural retrofitting methods tend to only focus on how to improve the strength and ductility of structural members. It is necessary for developing retrofitting strategy to consider not only upgrading the capacity but also achieving rapid and ...
Min Sook Kim, Young Hak Lee
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Study on Influence of Joint Locations and Hydraulic Coupling Actions on Rock Masses’ Failure Process
Energies, 2022 Distribution of joints and fissures under hydraulic coupling condition is particularly critical to the stability of surrounding rock masses in underground engineering construction. In this paper, DDARF (Discontinuous Deformation Analysis for Rock Failure)
Yunjuan Chen +4 more
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Comparing Energy Improvements and Financial Costs of Retrofitting Interventions in a Historical Building [PDF]
, 2016 In Italy, energy improvements of historical buildings are one of the key aspects to reach the EU 2020 goals on energy efficiency. Many papers are available in literature to recover and retrofit historical buildings, considering different types of ...
Carbonara, Elisa, Tiberi, Mariagrazia
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OptEEmAL: Decision-Support Tool for the Design of Energy Retrofitting Projects at District Level [PDF]
, 2019 Designing energy retrofitting actions poses an elevated number of problems, as the definition of the baseline, selection of indicators to measure performance, modelling, setting objectives, etc.
De Tommasi, L +12 more
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Retrofitting Memory: Retrofitting a Non-Physical Architecture [PDF]
, 2021 <p>This project looks at how destroyed architecture, although physically lost, fundamentally continues to exist within human memories as a non-physical entity. The site chosen is Avonside Girls’ High School in Christchurch, New Zealand, a school heavily damaged during the February 22nd earthquake in 2011.
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Investigation of the Effects of Link Beam Length on the RC Frame Retrofitted with the Linked Column Frame System [PDF]
Civil Engineering Infrastructures Journal, 2020 This study investigates the effect of different link beam lengths in the Reinforced Concrete (RC) frame retrofitted with the Linked Column Frame (LCF) system.
Alireza Ezoddin +2 more
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Financing Capture Ready Coal-Fired Power Plants in China by Issuing Capture Options [PDF]
, 2007 ‘Capture Ready’ is a design concept enabling fossil fuel plants to be retrofitted more economically with carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies, however financing the cost of capture ready can be problematic, especially in the developing ...
Gibbons, Jon +3 more
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