The envelopes in historic buildings must be preserved as aging historic buildings continue to be used. Conservation is necessary to improve the energy performance of historic buildings. The target building of this study has an exposed rafter structure. Modern historical …
Urban mining is regarded as an important strategy to replace primary raw materials in the building sector. This study presents a bottom-up dynamic building stock model to explore the potential of urban mining to reduce primary material consumption and greenhouse …
Building energy retrofit is not only an efficient approach to increase energy efficiency through technical installations, but also has great potential to improve social acceptance through co-creation. However, there are many existing residential buildings with low energy efficiency in need …
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 traditional construction. These buildings …
Building energy-saving retrofit projects (BERPs) have been widely implemented due to pressure to reduce emissions to meet carbon neutrality targets. However, it is still not clear which kind of BERP is most efficient during implementation. This paper proposed a three-stage …
Building databases are important assets when estimating and planning for national energy savings from energy retrofitting. However, databases often lack information on building characteristics needed to determine the feasibility of specific energy conservation measures. In this paper, machine learning methods …
This article discusses how the existing regulatory, informative, and financial instruments for the renovation of existing building stock in Spain could be combined to produce a national ‘Building Renovation Passport’, that is expected to be introduced by the European Commission …
Over the last few decades, the construction sector's energy consumption has increased tremendously. Buildings consume both embodied energy (EE) and operational energy (OE) during their life cycle. EE is consumed by processes associated with construction, whereas OE is spent operating …
In 2030, 80% of the world's population will live in cities, when cities are responsible for over 70% of global carbon dioxide emissions. As the built environment accounts for 40% of the global primary energy consumption, changes need to take …
The main purpose of this paper is to present the use of super thermal insulation materials for a historical building through a calculation-based case study. The development of the insulation materials is based on the objective of making buildings as …