Dynamic life cycle impact assessment (DLCIA) in a sustainable building planning process [PDF]
Scientific ReportsBuilding sector significantly contributes to the anthropogenic environmental impacts. To promote sustainable construction, life cycle assessment (LCA) serves as a useful tool to quantify the environmental impacts of a building and suggest improvement ...
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Correlation Between Density of Residential Areas and Solar Energy Potential in Xining City [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 In urban scale, solar energy utilization potential is closely related to residential density. Taking Xining City as an example, this paper explored how density of urban residential area affects solar energy utilization potential of urban housing.
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Influence of airtightness of steel sandwich panel joints on heat losses [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Energy saving ordinances requires that buildings must be designed in such a way that the heat transfer surface including the joints is permanently air impermeable.
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Towards the evaluation of a thermal compartmentation renovation concept through in-situ measurements [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Facing the energy transition, Dutch social housing corporations are expected to fulfil a pioneering role in realising fossil fuel free and CO2 neutral dwellings and neighbourhoods.
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Evaluation of the energy performance and cost-benefit of innovative technologies in butcher’s shops [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The CO2 emissions and energy use of SMEs in the tertiary sector (e.g. small food and non-food shops, restaurants, offices, pubs, etc.) are high and there are few initiatives to reduce because this target group is difficult to reach due to small scale and
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Thermal resilience to overheating assessment in a Belgian educational building with passive cooling strategies during heatwaves and power outages [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Airtight and highly insulated educational buildings are subjected to overheating risks, even in moderate climates, due to unforeseeable events like frequent heatwaves (HWs) and power outages (POs) leading to heat-stress and negative impact on the health ...
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Buildings, 2021 National design guides provide essential guidance for the design of building drainage systems, which primarily ensure the basic objectives of preventing odor ingress and cross-transmission of disease through water-trap seal retention.
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Steady-State Hydraulic Analysis of High-Rise Building Wastewater Drainage Networks: Modelling Basis
Buildings, 2021 A model is presented which allows steady-state pressure profiles in high-rise wastewater drainage networks to be related to intake air flowrates and discharge water flowrates.
Colin Stewart +4 more
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Building Sustainability Assessment [PDF]
Sustainability, 2010 Although social, economic, and cultural indicators are of substantial importance to the concept of sustainable building, this concept is usually related to environmental characteristics. Any building level assessment method is complex and involves contradictory aspects. Moreover, emphasizing qualitative criteria only increases confusion.
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Drivers and barriers to energy-efficient technologies (EETs) in EU residential buildings
Energy and Built Environment, 2021 To achieve carbon targets, the European Union (EU) aims to promote nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB). To enable the necessary transition, technical solutions need to converge with socio-economic factors, such values and awareness of stakeholders ...
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