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Nakielska, Magdalena, and Krzysztof Pawłowski. "ENERGY AUDIT, ENERGY PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE - WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM?" Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego / Inżynieria Środowiska 166, no. 46 (2017): 96–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.6039.

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The current state of law regarding the modernization and thermal protection of buildings consists of several regulations. Each of them refers to the energy intensity of buildings, but refers to another document. Three concepts related to energy consumption in a building: Energy Audit, Energy Performance of the building and Energy Performance Certificat of the building. Concepts similar, but different in terms of content and purpose to serve. In addition to the legal basis of individual documents, the article included the results of a survey aimed at presenting the average citizen's knowledge o

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Millán-Martínez, Marlón, Germán Osma-Pinto, and Julián Jaramillo-Ibarra. "Estimating a Building’s Energy Performance using a Composite Indicator: A Case Study." TecnoLógicas 25, no. 54 (2022): e2352. http://dx.doi.org/10.22430/22565337.2352.

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Several studies have analyzed the integration of energy-saving strategies in buildings to mitigate their environmental impact. These studies focused mainly on a disaggregated analysis of such strategies and their effects on the building's energy consumption and thermal behavior, using energy engine simulation software (EnergyPlus, TRNSYS, and DOE2) or graphical interface software (DesignBuilder, eQuest, and ESP-r). However, buildings are complex systems whose energy behavior depends on the interaction of passive (e.g., location and construction materials) and dynamic (e.g., occupation) compone

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Joseph, Benedicto, Tatiana Pogrebnaya, and Baraka Kichonge. "Semitransparent Building-Integrated Photovoltaic: Review on Energy Performance, Challenges, and Future Potential." International Journal of Photoenergy 2019 (October 20, 2019): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5214150.

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Buildings consume large amounts of energy, and their transformation from energy users to producers has attracted increasing interest in the quest to help optimize the energy share, increasing energy efficiency and environmental protection. The use of energy-efficient materials is among the proposed approaches to increase the building’s energy balance, thus increasing the performance of building facades. Semitransparent building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV), being one of the technologies with the potential to increase a building’s energy efficiency, is considered as a feasible method for rene

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Shang, Luming, Sofia Dermisi, Youngjun Choe, Hyun Woo Lee, and Yohan Min. "Assessing Office Building Marketability before and after the Implementation of Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure Policies—Lessons Learned from Major U.S. Cities." Sustainability 15, no. 11 (2023): 8883. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15118883.

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An increasing number of U.S. cities require commercial/office properties to publicly disclose their energy performance due to the adoption of energy benchmarking and disclosure policies. This level of transparency provides an additional in-depth assessment of a building’s performance beyond a sustainability certification (e.g., Energy Star, LEED) and may lead less energy-efficient buildings to invest in energy retrofits, therefore improving their marketability. However, the research is scarce on assessing the impact of such policies on office building marketability. This study tries to fill th

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Ebuy, Habtamu Tkubet, Hind Bril El Haouzi, Riad Benelmir, and Remi Pannequin. "Occupant Behavior Impact on Building Sustainability Performance: A Literature Review." Sustainability 15, no. 3 (2023): 2440. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15032440.

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Occupant behavior controls a building’s energy system to adapt the indoor environment, significantly increasing building energy consumption. Occupant behavior, which refers to the occupancy inside a building and their interaction with building systems (windows, blinds, thermostats, lighting and appliances, etc.), has been largely overlooked in building energy performance analysis. These factors make it essential to design sustainable buildings. It is widely acknowledged in the literature that there is an alarming performance gap between the estimated and actual energy consumption in buildings.

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Verhaeghe, Charlotte, Audenaert Amaryllis, and Stijn Verbeke. "Contrasting Definitions of High Energy Performance Buildings." E3S Web of Conferences 172 (2020): 16005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202017216005.

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The rising interest in low energy building has led to an inflation in related terminology: (nearly) zero energy buildings, or (n)ZEBs, passive houses, positive energy buildings and districts, off-grid buildings, energy autarkic buildings, etc. Each of these terms involves (sometimes subtle) differences in interpretations, system boundaries, included energy end uses, etc. This paper maps the differences and overlaps in applications of various cases of residential High Energy Performance Buildings (HEPBs), aiming to contribute in the development of a novel taxonomy to evaluate the extent to whic

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Faniama, Virara, Hanadi Hanadi, Hadi Christian, et al. "Energy Audit Based on Energy Consumption Intensity for Energy Conservation in University Buildings." Jurnal Otomasi Kontrol dan Instrumentasi 16, no. 1 (2024): 53–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5614/joki.2024.16.1.6.

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Energy auditing is an essential step in optimizing energy use in commercial buildings. This research explores the application of energy auditing with the Energy Consumption Intensity method to improve energy efficiency in campus buildings. Considering the changes in occupancy and activity patterns in the university environment can provide a comprehensive insight into the associated energy consumption patterns. The audit analyzed the building's energy consumption and identified potential energy savings to improve energy efficiency. Energy data was collected and analyzed to evaluate the building

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Abbas, Safeer, Omer Saleem, Mujasim Ali Rizvi, Syed Minhaj Saleem Kazmi, Muhammad Junaid Munir, and Shahid Ali. "Investigating the Energy-Efficient Structures Using Building Energy Performance Simulations: A Case Study." Applied Sciences 12, no. 18 (2022): 9386. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12189386.

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The use of energy efficient structures in the local construction industry assists in promoting green building concepts, leading to economical and eco-friendly solutions for self-sustained structures. The main aim of this study was to examine and compare the energy performance of various local buildings. Detailed 3D building models (house, office, and warehouse buildings) were constructed and investigated for their cost and energy savings using building energy simulation tools (green building studio and insight). Moreover, the effects of various building materials for walls, window panels, and

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Guerra-Santin, Olivia, Aidan Christopher Tweed, and Maria Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster. "Learning from design reviews in low energy buildings." Structural Survey 32, no. 3 (2014): 246–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ss-08-2013-0030.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the usability of design reviews to inform designers about low carbon technologies and building performance. The design review of three domestic and two non-domestic case studies are evaluated. Design/methodology/approach – Data collection and analysis methods include interviews and meetings with design teams and contractors, design tools audit and revision of drawings and project documentation. In addition, building's envelope and systems, and in-use performance evaluations are used to inform design teams about the actual performance of the b

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Harris, Sophia K., David P. Moore, Michael Roberts, and Rachel Thompson. "PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE BUILDING CHOICES THROUGH HUMANIZED ENERGY PERFORMANCE LABELS." International Journal of Research in Engineering 4, no. 1 (2024): 6–10. https://doi.org/10.55640/ijre-04-01-02.

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Building energy consumption is a significant contributor to global energy demand and environmental impact. Efforts to promote sustainable building choices among consumers and stakeholders often rely on energy performance labels, yet their effectiveness can be limited by complex technical information. This article explores the potential of "humanized" performance labeling to enhance understanding and influence decision-making regarding sustainable buildings. Humanized labels translate technical energy performance data into relatable, understandable metrics and narratives that resonate with indi

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Ekström, Tomas, Stephen Burke, Lars-Erik Harderup, and Jesper Arfvidsson. "Proposed method for probabilistic risk analysis using building performance simulations and stochastic parameters." E3S Web of Conferences 172 (2020): 25005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202017225005.

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As parts of the world continue the work of mitigating the impact of climate change, many countries strive for continued reductions in energy demand from buildings by implementing more stringent building regulations. Consequently, the importance of accurate and efficient building performance simulations to predict the energy use of a building design increases. As observed in earlier studies, there are performance gaps between the predicted annual energy demand from building energy performance simulations based on deterministic methods compared to the monitored annual energy use of a building. T

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Filonenko, O. I., O. I. Yurin, and O. A. Kodak. "ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS." ACADEMIC JOURNAL Series: Industrial Machine Building, Civil Engineering 1, no. 50 (2018): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.26906/znp.2018.50.1075.

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The problem of the Ukrainian housing stock energy performance is under consideration. Analysis of the outer walling thermal protection condition has been performed for the basic building construction solutions through the example of Poltava. The housing stock is represented by brick, large-block and panel system buildings, erected in the 50–80-th of the last century. The actual values of heat transfer resistance of the outer walls, windows, covers and other building enclosure are 3–5-fold less than the permissible minimum dimension according to the present-day requirements. The article present

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Kim, Young Ki, Lindita Bande, Kheira Anissa Tabet Aoul, and Hasim Altan. "Dynamic Energy Performance Gap Analysis of a University Building: Case Studies at UAE University Campus, UAE." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (2020): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010120.

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As a result of an increasing demand for energy-efficient buildings with a better experience of user comfort, the built environment sector needs to consider the prediction of building energy performance, which during the design phase, is achieved when a building is handed over and used. There is, however, significant evidence that shows that buildings do not perform as anticipated. This discrepancy is commonly described as the ‘energy performance gap’. Building energy audit and post occupancy evaluation (POE) are among the most efficient processes to identify and reduce the energy performance g

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Bano, Farheen, and Vandana Sehgal. "A Comparative Study: Energy Performance Analysis of Conventional Office Buildings at Lucknow." Journal of Design and Built Environment 20, no. 1 (2020): 24–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jdbe.vol20no1.3.

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In this study, the energy consumption of three government and three private office buildings in Lucknow was investigated, and the energy performance index (EPI) for each building was determined. The main purpose of this research was to assess the energy usage of the buildings and identify factors affecting the energy usage. An analysis was performed using data from an energy audit of government buildings, electricity bills of private office buildings, and an on-site visit to determine building envelope materials and its systems. The annual energy consumption of buildings has been evaluated thr

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Hoxha, Visar. "Measuring energy heating performance of apartment buildings in Kosovo built after 2003." Facilities 38, no. 5/6 (2019): 395–420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/f-12-2018-0153.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to quantify the energy heating performance of apartment buildings in Kosovo built after 2003 and compare it against the energy heating performance of buildings in member states of EU and selected European countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper takes a case study approach focussed on the assessment of the heating energy performance of the building. This approach facilitated a detailed calculation of the selected materials’ energy performance used in a representative building structure in Kosovo comparing with passive buildings standard and energy

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Dascalaki, Elena G., Poulia A. Argiropoulou, Constantinos A. Balaras, Kalliopi G. Droutsa, and Simon Kontoyiannidis. "Benchmarks for Embodied and Operational Energy Assessment of Hellenic Single-Family Houses." Energies 13, no. 17 (2020): 4384. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13174384.

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Building energy performance benchmarking increases awareness and enables stakeholders to make better informed decisions for designing, operating, and renovating sustainable buildings. In the era of nearly zero energy buildings, the embodied energy along with operational energy use are essential for evaluating the environmental impacts and building performance throughout their lifecycle. Key metrics and baselines for the embodied energy intensity in representative Hellenic houses are presented in this paper. The method is set up to progressively cover all types of buildings. The lifecycle analy

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Abrahamsen, Fredrik Ege, Sturla Grina Ruud, and Alemayehu Gebremedhin. "Assessing Efficiency and Environmental Performance of a Nearly Zero-Energy University Building’s Energy System in Norway." Buildings 13, no. 1 (2023): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010169.

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Increasing awareness of climate issues in recent decades has led to new policies on buildings’ energy consumption and energy performance. The European Union (EU) directive 2010/31/EC, i.e., the energy performance of buildings directive (EPBD), is one of the measures initiated to achieve climate and energy goals by reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector. The EPBD required all new buildings to be nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs) by 2021. Nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs) are buildings with a very-high-energy performance and nearly zero or low-energy requir

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Enggarsiwi, Astri Resmi, Sri Yuliani, and Yosafat Winarto. "Thermal Performance of Tall Building Envelope Design in Tropical Urban Region." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1361, no. 1 (2024): 012018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1361/1/012018.

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Abstract The construction sector contributes to producing carbon gas emissions of more than 40%, using materials from nature that are quite large, donating waste, and reducing areas for water catchment and green areas. This research focuses on what needs to be considered in the design of energy-efficient buildings is the variable building envelope. Building envelope design is critical in promoting sustainable and energy-efficient tall buildings. Envelope design consists of characteristics and configuration of building materials, that contribute to thermal performance. The performance of a buil

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Prastowo, Ferdiansyah Ibnu, Albert Eddy Husin, and Nur Amalia. "Improving Project Performance Based on Building Information Modelling 6D & LCCA in High-Rise Office Building." ASTONJADRO 12, no. 2 (2023): 368–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.32832/astonjadro.v12i2.8787.

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Of the total 5.9 million existing buildings, the Office occupies the 2nd position of the most types of buildings with 16% of the Total Total. The least used aspect of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the ability to obtain building energy models using the 6D BIM methodology. This digital information model is to simulate building energy and improve building energy systems. In this way, 6D BIM simulation allows us to make building design and operational decisions. In the case of increased energy, which leads to greater quality and comfort in the sustainable use of buildings. This issue has

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Ingeli, Rastislav, Katarína Minarovičová, and Miroslav Čekon. "Architectural Elements with Respect to the Energy Performance of Buildings." Advanced Materials Research 1020 (October 2014): 561–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1020.561.

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Buildings account for 40% of the primary energy use and 24%of the generation of green house gases worldwide. Therefore, a reduction of the specific energy demand of buildings and increased use of renewable energy are important measures of climate change mitigation. On the 18th of May 2010 a recast of the EPBD was approved which further clarifies the intention that buildings shall have a low energy demand. The recast of the EPBD specifies that by the end of 2020 all new buildings shall be “nearly zero-energy buildings”. A nearly zero-energy building is defined as a building with a very high ene

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Hanushchak-Yefimenko, Liudmyla. "ENERGY CERTIFICATION AND ENERGY AUDIT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS A METHODOLOGICAL TOOL TO IMPROVE THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF THE UNIVERSITY." Management 34, no. 2 (2022): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/2415-3206.2021.2.2.

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. Improving the energy performance of buildings is one of the least expensive ways to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Building energy performance certification increases public knowledge about energy conservation and allows consumers and other decision makers to compare buildings based on their lifetime performance. In addition, energy performance certifications are an incentive for owners to improve the efficiency of existing buildings.METHODS. It is proposed to use in the process of energy certification and energy audit of university buildings

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Pitonak, Anton, and Martin Lopusniak. "Analysis of Energy Sources on Energy Indicators Performance." Applied Mechanics and Materials 861 (December 2016): 198–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.861.198.

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In the members states of the European Union, portion of buildings in the total consumption of energy represents 40%, and their portion in CO2 emissions fluctuates around 35%. The European Union is trying to protect the environment by reducing energy demand and releasing CO2 emissions into the air. Energy performance is the quantity of energy, which is necessary for heating and domestic hot water production, for cooling and ventilation and for lighting. Based on results of energy performance, individual buildings are classified into energy classes A to G. A global indicator (primary energy) is

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Anđelković, Aleksandar S., Miroslav Kljajić, Dušan Macura, et al. "Building Energy Performance Certificate—A Relevant Indicator of Actual Energy Consumption and Savings?" Energies 14, no. 12 (2021): 3455. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14123455.

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A building energy performance gap can be illustrated as the difference between the theoretical (methodologically defined) and the actual energy consumption. In EU countries, Energy Performance Certificates are issued when buildings are constructed, sold, or leased. This information is the first step in order to evaluate the energy performance of the building stock. In Serbia, when issuing an energy certificate, the adopted national methodology recognizes only energy consumption for heating. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the energy gap and estimate the relevance of an Energy Per

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Mohd Salleh, Mohd Najib, Mohd Zin Kandar, and Siti Rasidah Md Sakip. "User Perception of High-Performance Schools." Journal of ASIAN Behavioural Studies 3, no. 10 (2018): 191–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v3i10.318.

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 Energy demand in buildings can reduce by improving energy efficiency. MS1525 has recommended that energy efficiency for Non-Residential Buildings in Malaysia to be not more than 135kWh/m²/year. A school building is a non-residential building and has major social responsibilities. Based on the theory of building energy-efficiency, energy efficiency can be achieved through three main factors: a) design of buildings; b) design of services; and c) user behavior. This study aims to investigate the user perceptions in High-Performance Schools. Keywords: User perception; building energy

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Moga, Ligia, and I. Moga. "Building Design Influence On The Energy Performance." Journal of Applied Engineering Sciences 5, no. 1 (2015): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jaes-2015-0005.

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Abstract Energy efficient design is a high priority in the national energy strategy of European countries considering the latest requirements of the European Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings. The residential sector is responsible for a significant quantity of energy consumptions from the total amount of consumptions on a worldwide level. In residential building most of the energy consumptions are given mainly by heating, domestic hot water and lighting. Retrofitting the existing building stock offers great opportunities for reducing global energy consumptions and greenhouse gas

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Alghamdi, Abdulaziz, Guangji Hu, Husnain Haider, Kasun Hewage, and Rehan Sadiq. "Benchmarking of Water, Energy, and Carbon Flows in Academic Buildings: A Fuzzy Clustering Approach." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (2020): 4422. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114422.

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In Canada, higher educational institutions (HEIs) are responsible for a significant portion of energy consumption and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Improving the environmental performance of HEIs is an important step to achieve nationwide impact reduction. Academic buildings are among the largest infrastructure units in HEIs. Therefore, it is crucial to improve the environmental performance of academic buildings during their operations. Identifying critical academic buildings posing high impacts calls for methodologies that can holistically assess the environmental performance

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Kim, Hye Gi, Hyun Jun Kim, Chae Hwan Jeon, Myeong Won Chae, Young Hum Cho, and Sun Sook Kim. "Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code." Energies 13, no. 18 (2020): 4955. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13184955.

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Building energy codes are key policy tools for improving building energy efficiency by defining the minimum requirement for the energy performance of new buildings. In Korea, the building energy code was focused on prescriptive criteria for a long time but is now gradually introducing performance criteria. However, switching to performance criteria is not straightforward because of the resistance of the market to abandoning the well-consolidated prescriptive criteria. The objective of this study is to derive appropriate measures to strengthen the prescriptive criteria and the performance crite

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Kraus, Michal, and Filip Konečný. "The Evaluation of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in the Czech Republic." Advanced Materials Research 649 (January 2013): 15–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.649.15.

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The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive requires that all new buildings must be nearly zero energy buildings by 2020. A nearly zero energy building is a building that has a very high energy performance. The current absence of evaluating the nearly zero energy buildings encourages to set up simple and explicit methodology for evaluation nZEB in the Czech Republic. The evaluation of the nearly zero building is based on the annual balance of energy.

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Kampelis, Nikolaos, Georgios I. Papayiannis, Dionysia Kolokotsa, et al. "An Integrated Energy Simulation Model for Buildings." Energies 13, no. 5 (2020): 1170. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13051170.

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The operation of buildings is linked to approximately 36% of the global energy consumption, 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. Assessing the energy consumption and efficiency of buildings is a complex task addressed by a variety of methods. Building energy modeling is among the dominant methodologies in evaluating the energy efficiency of buildings commonly applied for evaluating design and renovation energy efficiency measures. Although building energy modeling is a valuable tool, it is rarely the case that simulation results are assessed against the building’s actual energy

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Kim, Min-Hwi, Haneol Kim, Jong-Kyu Kim, and Young-Sub Ahn. "Experimental energy performance in electrified renewable energy-sharing community." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2600, no. 4 (2023): 042017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2600/4/042017.

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Abstract In this study, the empirical results of renewable energy self-sufficiency for communities consisting of residential and nonresidential buildings were analyzed. These buildings were combined with a grid-connected electrified community. The community was primarily powered by building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems, and cooling and heating water were supplied by geothermal and hydrothermal source heat pump systems. The community building comprised 56 detached houses and two office buildings. The community’s primary electricity generation was provided by a 500 kWp BIPV, approximat

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Bernardo, Hermano, and Filipe Oliveira. "Estimation of Energy Savings Potential in Higher Education Buildings Supported by Energy Performance Benchmarking: A Case Study." Environments 5, no. 8 (2018): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments5080085.

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This paper presents results of work developed in the field of building energy benchmarking applied to the building stock of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal, based on a thorough energy performance characterisation of each of its buildings. To address the benchmarking of the case study buildings, an energy efficiency ranking system was applied. Following an energy audit of each building, they were grouped in different typologies according to the main end-use activities developed: Pedagogic buildings, canteens, residential buildings and office buildings. Then, an energy usage indica

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Zare, Niloofar, Ali Shafaat, and Somayeh Asadi. "Review of energy performance gap and solutions in residential buildings." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1085, no. 1 (2022): 012013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1085/1/012013.

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Abstract The energy consumption in the world due to economic development, rising population, and technological developments is growing, which has led to an increase in global warming. Therefore, there is a strong need to develop new strategies to reduce energy consumption. Buildings account for about 40% of global energy consumption. Since occupancy time in residential buildings is longer than in commercial and office buildings, residential buildings have a more significant impact on energy consumption. Due to this issue, efforts are being made to optimize energy consumption in residential bui

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Iqbal, Muhammad. "PERFORMANCE LABELLING OF BUILDINGS." Jurnal Arsitekno 3, no. 3 (2019): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.29103/arj.v3i3.1215.

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Pelaksanaan konstruksi bangunan yang cukup tinggi pada abad ini telah menggunakan sumber daya material dan energi yang cukup besar baik pada saat pembangunan maupun masa penggunaan bangunan tersebut. Hal ini dapat menyebabkan krisis energy dan memicu pemanasan global jika tidak adanya fungsi pengendalian dan penilaian terhadap hasil pembangunan serta rekomendasi terhadap pembangunan kedepan. Dalam rangka menjaga keberlanjutan sumber energy perlu dikembangkan program-program khusus untuk meningkatkan kesadaran para pemain kunci dalam dunia konstruksi, sepert iperancang, pengembang, pemilik bang

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Kim, Hye Gi, and Sun Sook Kim. "Development of Energy Benchmarks for Office Buildings Using the National Energy Consumption Database." Energies 13, no. 4 (2020): 950. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13040950.

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In an effort to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings, it is necessary to first evaluate the energy performance of those buildings. Since it is difficult to obtain detailed information on existing buildings, the challenge is how to conduct reliable energy performance assessments with this limited information. As a result, many countries have adopted evaluation systems based on measured energy consumption data for existing buildings. This study aims to analyze the building energy consumption and characteristics using Korea’s national building database and provide an energy perform

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Cho, Kyung, and Sun Kim. "Energy Performance Assessment According to Data Acquisition Levels of Existing Buildings." Energies 12, no. 6 (2019): 1149. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12061149.

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Existing buildings are likely to consume more energy and emit more greenhouse gases than new buildings because of inevitable deteriorations in physical performance. Accordingly, retrofitting of existing buildings is considered essential to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector. However, assessing the energy performance of existing buildings accurately has limitations because building materials undergo physical deterioration and the actual operational conditions differ from as-built documentation. There is also a difference in the level of data acquisit

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Taylor, Jonathon, Yanchen Liu, Borong Lin, et al. "Towards a framework to evaluate the ‘total’ performance of buildings." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 39, no. 5 (2018): 609–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143624418762662.

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Internationally, buildings are a major contributor to carbon emissions. Despite significant advances in the technology and construction of energy-efficient buildings, in many cases a performance gap between designed and actual performance exists. While much research has investigated the drivers of the building energy performance gap – both static and transient– there has been considerably less research into the total performance gap, defined here as performance gaps in building energy use, occupant satisfaction and Indoor Environmental Quality parameters such as thermal comfort and air quality

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Levermore, Geoffrey. "Maxmaladaptation, occupant behaviour and energy performance gap." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 42, no. 5 (2021): 533–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01436244211000990.

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Occupant behaviour is a key factor in the energy consumption and performance of a building. However, it is difficult to model and simulate hence there is often a mismatch between the predicted and actual performance of a new or refurbished buildings and surprising variations in the consumptions of similar and identical buildings. Although environmental conditions affect people significantly, there are also non-environmental factors including how well employers manage people and how well dwelling occupants understand their controls. Rarely are these factors considered in building performance, e

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Wong, James Pow Chew. "Building energy performance assessment for existing commercial buildings with heritage values." MATEC Web of Conferences 277 (2019): 03018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201927703018.

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The building sector accounts for 19% of Australia's energy consumption and around 23% of the greenhouse gas emissions. In 2005, commercial buildings in Australia were responsible for 10% or 26 megatonnes (Mt) of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. They are two effective ways to reduce the building sector's emissions, namely constructing new energy efficient buildings or retrofitting existing buildings. Due to the life expectancy of existing building stock the greatest reduction in emissions before 2030 could be achieved through retrofits. Building performance assessment and evaluation uses

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Yezioro, Abraham, and Isaac Guedi Capeluto. "Energy Rating of Buildings to Promote Energy-Conscious Design in Israel." Buildings 11, no. 2 (2021): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11020059.

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Improving the energy efficiency of existing and new buildings is an important step towards achieving more sustainable environments. There are various methods for grading buildings that are required according to regulations in different places for green building certification. However, in new buildings, these rating systems are usually implemented at late design stages due to their complexity and lack of integration in the architectural design process, thus limiting the available options for improving their performance. In this paper, the model ENERGYui used for design and rating buildings in I

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Mutani, G., V. Todeschi, and S. Santantonio. "Urban-Scale Energy Models: the relationship between cooling energy demand and urban form." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2177, no. 1 (2022): 012016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2177/1/012016.

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Abstract To enhance the quality of life in cities, it is necessary to improve the energy performance of buildings together with a sustainable urban planning especially in high-density contexts. Previous works investigated the building shape, the urban morphology, and the local climate conditions to optimize the energy performance for space heating of buildings. The aim of this study is to validate a GIS-based engineering model to simulate the hourly energy demand for space cooling in residential buildings at neighborhood scale and to assess the relationship between the urban form and the energ

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Teni, Mihaela, Ksenija Čulo, and Hrvoje Krstić. "Renovation of Public Buildings towards nZEB: A Case Study of a Nursing Home." Buildings 9, no. 7 (2019): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings9070153.

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Recently, the European Union set new rules for the Energy Performance of Buildings emphasizing the need to facilitate the cost-effective renovation of existing buildings into nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB). Within this framework, the aim of this paper is to investigate and evaluate the energy performance of existing public buildings before and after renovation into nearly zero-energy buildings. Since the general quality of existing buildings in Croatia has changed over different periods of construction, the presented research was conducted on a representative nursing home designed corresp

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Fedorczak-Cisak, Małgorzata, Elżbieta Radziszewska-Zielina, Bożena Orlik-Kożdoń, Tomasz Steidl, and Tadeusz Tatara. "Analysis of the Thermal Retrofitting Potential of the External Walls of Podhale’s Historical Timber Buildings in the Aspect of the Non-Deterioration of Their Technical Condition." Energies 13, no. 18 (2020): 4610. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13184610.

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The paper discusses thermal quality improvement in historic buildings. It is based on a case study of a wooden historical building in an architectural style typical of Zakopane, located in the Podhale region of Poland. The building’s historical value and timber structure prevent the application of typical thermal retrofitting solutions. This paper presents an analysis of the possibilities of the improvement of energy performance of a historic building (villa) which included: a review of the available energy performance improvement solutions applicable to this type of building, with a particula

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Fernandes, Joana, Maria Catarina Santos, and Rui Castro. "Introductory Review of Energy Efficiency in Buildings Retrofits." Energies 14, no. 23 (2021): 8100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14238100.

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Energy-efficient building retrofits must be approached from three perspectives: law regulation approach, financial incentives approach, and practice approach. The concepts of zero energy building and life cycle energy building are presented as the basis for energy retrofits. Multi-criteria boards to assess the decision-making process are reviewed, analysed, and categorised under an architectonic perspective. Some examples are presented, with different packages of measures, from deep to non-invasive energy retrofits. Passive and active energy generation systems, together with control and manage

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P. S., Nimlyat,. "Computer Simulations In Buildings: Implications For Building Energy Performance." IOSR Journal of Engineering 4, no. 3 (2014): 56–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/3021-04345662.

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Michalak, Piotr, Krzysztof Szczotka, and Jakub Szymiczek. "Audit-Based Energy Performance Analysis of Multifamily Buildings in South-East Poland." Energies 16, no. 12 (2023): 4828. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16124828.

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Multifamily buildings account for about half of all residential buildings in Poland and about 70% of the urban population live in them. Most of them require thermal refurbishment. Evaluation of a building’s energy performance with the use of correlation models has been very rarely used in relation to buildings in Poland. This method is simple, fast and can improve the decision process on thermal modernisation. It is especially important at the pre-design stage of planned investments. This paper presents an attempt to develop correlations that could be used in the energy assessment of multifami

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Uriarte, Irati, Aitor Erkoreka, Pablo Eguia, Enrique Granada, and Koldo Martin-Escudero. "Estimation of the Heat Loss Coefficient of Two Occupied Residential Buildings through an Average Method." Energies 13, no. 21 (2020): 5724. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13215724.

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The existing performance gap between the design and the real energy consumption of a building could have three main origins: the occupants’ behaviour, the performance of the energy systems and the performance of the building envelope. Through the estimation of the in-use Heat Loss Coefficient (HLC), it is possible to characterise the building’s envelope energy performance under occupied conditions. In this research, the estimation of the HLC of two individual residential buildings located in Gainsborough and Loughborough (UK) was carried out using an average method. This average method was dev

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Salih, Kawar T. "Finding Alternative Methods for Controlling the Power Shortage in Kurdistan through Improving Buildings’ Energy Performance." Academic Journal of Nawroz University 7, no. 4 (2018): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v7n4a281.

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The power shortage is one of the major problems in developing countries. Kurdistan Region of Iraq suffers from this issue, like other developing countries. Especially, after the economy crises that has started in 2014. However, all its efforts for tackling this challenge has been in providing more energy supply stations and more fuel provision. Few studies have been found in the region that seek the relation between the quality of buildings and energy consumption. It is questioned if the building sector in Kurdistan is well managed and environmentally sufficient to consume minimum amount of en

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Deng, Qinqin, Shengnan Zhang, Ming Shan, and Ji Li. "Research on Envelope Thermal Performance of Ultra-Low Energy Rural Residential Buildings in China." Sustainability 15, no. 8 (2023): 6931. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15086931.

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Rural energy consumption plays an important role in energy consumption due to the improvement of rural residents’ living quality requirements in China. Ultra-low energy rural residential buildings are proposed to decrease rural energy consumption. First of all, this paper aims to provide the definition of ultra-low energy rural residential buildings, which is to reduce 50% of the building energy consumption of the rural residential benchmark building according to the Chinese standard for energy efficiency of rural residential buildings. Secondly, this paper presents the heat transfer coefficie

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Wan, Shiyu, Grace Ding, Goran Runeson, and Yisheng Liu. "Sustainable Buildings’ Energy-Efficient Retrofitting: A Study of Large Office Buildings in Beijing." Sustainability 14, no. 2 (2022): 1021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14021021.

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Energy-efficient retrofitting has emerged as a primary strategy for reducing the energy consumption of buildings. Buildings in China account for about 40% of total national energy consumption. Large office buildings account for the most. Less than 5% of the building area of existing office buildings is energy efficient. Energy-efficient retrofitting for sustainable buildings is a complicated system that involves various sustainable dimensions and operational technical schemes. Making multi-criteria decisions becomes a challenging problem for stakeholders. Based on the theory of sustainability,

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Sung, Uk-Joo, and Seok-Hyun Kim. "Development of a Passive and Active Technology Package Standard and Database for Application to Zero Energy Buildings in South Korea." Energies 12, no. 9 (2019): 1700. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12091700.

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There is much research on zero energy buildings. In this paper, technologies and policies to improve the building energy efficiency of zero energy buildings are presented. The zero energy building certification system in Korea is introduced, and the evaluation is carried out based on the energy self-reliance rate that enables zero energy buildings. Zero energy buildings are able to minimize energy consumption due to the application of highly efficient building materials and equipment technology. In this research, to increase the prevalence of zero energy buildings in Korea, the authors propose

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