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Darcy, Michael P. "Work / Ethic: A Systemic Approach to Sustainable Urban Renewal." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427899699.

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Swan, Andrew D. "A decision-support system for the design of retrofit sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS)." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2003. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3635/.

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Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) is a generic term that refers to various measures aimed at minimising surface runoff (and consequent flooding and pollution problems) from urban catchments. SUDS technologies include local infiltration, storage and storm-water re-use devices. Although there is considerable international evidence of the successful incorporation of SUDS technologies in new developments, there is very little indication of the extent to which they represent a viable rehabilitation option for retrofit applications to problem urban catchments in the UK. It is believed that u

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Gaspary, Fernanda Peron. "O RETROFIT SUSTENTÁVEL COMO UMA ESTRATÉGIA PARA A REABILITAÇÃO CONSCIENTE DO PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL ARQUITETÔNICO." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/10998.

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This dissertation constitute a reflection on the sustainable Retrofit as a conscious strategy to rehabilitate the architectural cultural heritage. In this context, the concept of Retrofit is explored and associated with various dimensions of sustainable development. This research also reviewed aspects relating to diversities and similarities between models of interventions. The methodology accommodated bibliographic search, consultation on regulatory agencies of brazilian constructions, theoretical-historical survey and direct observation on case study of a building of historic heritage, the M

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Goff, Jason. "Sustainability and Affordability: How Single-Family Home Retrofits Can Achieve Both." The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/584147.

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Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project<br>Climate change and resource availability are arguably the two biggest challenges humanity faces going forward. An unprecedented body of scientific work has been compiled over the past thirty years that indicates humans have and continue to be the largest driver of these environmental concerns, and therefore must also be responsible for any solutions. Buildings and their construction account for nearly 40% of the total energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Water consumption by both buildings and thermoele

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Johnson, Nicolas R. "Building Energy Model Calibration for Retrofit Decision Making." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3507.

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Accommodating the continued increase in energy demand in the face of global climate change has been a worldwide concern. With buildings in the US consuming nearly 40% of national energy, a concerted effort must be given to reduce building energy consumption. As new buildings continue to improve their efficiency through more restrictive energy codes, the other 76.9 billion square feet of current building stock falls further behind. The rate at which current buildings are being retrofit is not enough and better tools are needed to access the benefits of retrofits and the uncertainties associated

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PASTORE, Luisa. "Sustainable Social Housing in Temperate Areas. Italy and Brazil: the use of vegetation as a retrofit strategy." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10447/91052.

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La tesi si pone come obiettivo l’individuazione di strategie sostenibili per il retrofit del Social Housing in aree a clima temperato, con particolare riferimento all'utilizzo della vegetazione per la riqualificazione degli spazi esterni e per l'incremento delle prestazioni dell'involucro edilizio. La ricerca parte dall’assunto che le regioni del sud Italia e le aree subtropicali del Brasile, accomunati da caratteristiche climatiche affini, si trovano attualmente impegnati nell'identificazione di politiche e soluzioni per la riqualificazione di interi quartieri destinati all'housing sociale,

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Warwick, F. "A GIS-based decision support methodology at local planning authority scale for the implementation of sustainable drainage." Thesis, Coventry University, 2013. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/d81ad7d3-9e17-4661-b7c8-350a8c36861d/1.

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Implementation of the Flood and Water Management Act (2010) will place increased responsibility on local planning authorities (LPAs) in England for planning approval and future maintenance of sustainable drainage (SUDS) installations. LPAs have limited experience in assessing SUDS, and there is a need for additional guidance to support decision making. A method was developed to analyse environmental and institutional characteristics of existing published datasets using a Geographical Information System (GIS), and to create maps indicating feasible locations for SUDS devices at the strategic sc

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Zhu, Dongrui. "Glass Curtain Wall Retrofit Through Modular Kinetic Facade To Design Safe, Energy Efficient, Sustainable Urban Office High-rise Facade." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617108007657155.

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Pelenur, Marcos. "Retrofitting the domestic built environment : investigating household perspectives towards energy efficiency technologies and behaviour." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245221.

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Retrofitting the UK domestic built environment presents an excellent opportunity to improve its energy performance. However, retrofitting homes is a complex challenge conflated by multiple factors. Due to this complexity, a shortfall exists between the full potential and realised adoption of energy efficiency measures in the UK, a phenomenon termed the ‘Energy Efficiency Gap’. While a number of technical or economic factors may help explain this gap, difficult to quantify factors, such as social motivations, barriers, and viewpoints towards energy are also significant and often under-emphasise

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Macrelli, Giacomo. "Comfort-aided design for sustainable retrofitting: a new working and living model for Bologna." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017.

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Il progetto di tesi è basato su strategie di retrofit applicate su un edificio abbandonato, situato a Bologna, sperimentando moderni strumenti di simulazione energetica e metodologie progettuali parametriche. Sono state valutate le condizioni microclimatiche esterne e di progettate soluzioni tecnologiche, avendo come scopo principale il rispetto delle condizioni di comfort. L’edificio è situato in un’area periferica a nord di Bologna, nel quartiere Bolognina. Si trova in prossimità della stazione ferroviaria, la nuova sede del Comune e fa parte di un ambizioso progetto urbanistico di riquali

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MARTSCHENKO, TATIANA. "Introducing sustainability measures to retail district retrofits : Edmonton’s Westmount Centre Case Study." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-235626.

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Many North American suburban shopping malls have become under-performing retail islands drifting in oceans of asphalt parking lots. This thesis examined three potential future scenarios for the aging retail shopping mall landscape; 1. Maintaining status quo 2. Upgrading the property for a mixed-use neighbourhood centre 3. Implementing strategies for attainable sustainability targets These scenarios were examined using a proposed retrofit of Edmonton, Canada’s Westmount Centre as a case study, to determine if this retrofitting approach could be a pilot for other districts. The principles of 203

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Bozorgi, Alireza. "A Framework for Integrating Value and Uncertainty in the Sustainable Options Analysis in Real Estate Investment." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26333.

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Real estate professionals, such as investors, owner-occupants, and lenders who are involved in the investment decision-making process are increasingly interested in sustainability and energy efficiency investment. However, current tools and techniques, both technical and financial, typically used for assessing sustainability on their own are unable to provide comprehensive and reliable financial information required for making high-quality investment decisions. Sustainability investment often includes non-cost benefits, value implications, as well as substantial risk and uncertainty that curre

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Labò, Simone. "Holistic sustainable renovation of Post-World War II reinforced concrete building under a life cycle perspective by means diagrid exoskeletons." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/128920.

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Enormous resources are being invested in Europe to foster environmental, economic, and social sustainability; however, such relevant effort to reach ambitious targets may be a missed chance, unless a deep and systematic intervention on the built environment is undertaken targeting sustainability, safety and resilience at the same time. This thesis provide a contribution to the scientific debate, focusing on holistic renovation from outside of reinforced concrete building by embracing a life cycle perspective. Effectiveness of such an approach to the renovation with respect to traditional ret

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Bergenwall, Joakim. "An Investigation into Stationary Pneumatic Waste Conveyance Systems in Residential Areas : With a Case Study of Retrofit Installations in Singaporean Public Housing Estates." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-292991.

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Rapid urbanization brings an increasing pressure on current waste collection and transportation methods to cope with ever-increasing waste streams in urban environments. Pneumatic Waste Conveyance Systems or PWCS is often seen as an alternative for replacing open-handling of waste in narrow and congested town environments. This research intends to find out when, where and why such systems would be implemented, and the entirety of stationary PWCS implementation and usage is being investigated, from government, experts, developers, suppliers, system owners/ operators, users to the general publi

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Ferrador, Filho Antonio Luiz. "Eficiência energética em edificações - estudo de caso tribunal de justiça de São Paulo." Universidade Nove de Julho, 2017. http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/1627.

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Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2017-05-22T19:18:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio Luiz Ferrador Filho.pdf: 5915578 bytes, checksum: 551fba401297a5d3da42829909edc17d (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-22T19:18:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio Luiz Ferrador Filho.pdf: 5915578 bytes, checksum: 551fba401297a5d3da42829909edc17d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23<br>The building sector is one of the largest consumers of energy in global terms, hence the importance of search for energy efficiency in this Field. According to the buildings life cycle, it is in t

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Smith, Kerry W. S. "Development of a transitioning approach to reduce surface water volumes in combined sewer systems." Thesis, Abertay University, 2016. https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/b7c5021f-2efe-421a-b32f-0ac3161fc511.

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The overarching goal of this research is to establish a successful forum for a transition from the existing paradigm of managing wastewater infrastructure to a more sustainable paradigm that achieves a more efficient utilisation of wastewater assets. A transitioning approach to support a more efficient utilisation of surface water and wastewater assets and infrastructure is proposed and developed. The determined transitioning approach possesses key stages namely developing the arena, developing the agenda, case study, and monitoring. The case study stage investigates a drainage utility identif

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Taylor, Paki (Paki A. ). 1974. "Applications of sustainable technology to retrofits in urban areas." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70341.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2001.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-205).<br>Energy Losses from old buildings comprise a significant percentage of the total residential energy consumption in the United States. Retrofitting buildings for conservation can greatly decrease the present energy demand and help prevent an eventual depletion of the world's natural resources. This investigation analyzes energy efficient measures applicable to retrofits in re

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Bisello, Adriano. "Smart and sustainable projects at the energy-district level. How to assess them based on the co-benefits paradigm." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425852.

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The main topic of this doctoral thesis is the co-benefit concept, here applied as an assessment paradigm to innovative urban projects. In this research, a co-benefit is defined as any positive impact or effect, regardless of the intentionality, exceeding the primary project goal. More specifically, because the projects here analyzed are those aiming at (re)developing smart and sustainable energy districts, CO2 emission reduction and energy savings are considered the twin primary goals. To investigate the applicability of the assessment paradigm, the work focuses both on methodological and oper

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Gradén, Svedlund Hanna. "Amfibiska hus : möjligheter och utmaningar att nyttja byggtekniken." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och naturresurser, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-81918.

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Climate change will increase the risk of floods from storms and rising sea levels in many countries with coasts, seas and rivers. In Sweden, climate change is going to affect the intensity and frequency of precipitation which, together with rising sea levels, will result in more floods in the future. In the last few years amphibious buildings have emerged as an alternative solution to building protective infrastructure such as walls and levees around communities. There are several different strategies for how communities can be protected against floods. Amphibious architecture is a strategy w

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Leyva, Alfonso Santiago. "Implementing ecologically-inspired landscape design retrofits within exurban neighborhoods." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32669.

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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Lee R. Skabelund<br>Since the mid-1960s a paradigm shift in environmental values has been initiated in Europe, parts of the United States, and many other parts of the world, culminating in a focus on green infrastructure based development (Ahern et al., 2007b). During the 1980s and 1990s sustainability and landscape ecology began to be important aspects of landscape architecture education and practice (Swaffield, 2002; Ahern, 2005). The effort to create sustainable cities, neighborhoods,

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Silva, Roberto Toffoli Simoens da. "Preservação e sustentabilidade: restaurações e retrofits." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16138/tde-18102013-150137/.

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Os campos da Preservação de Monumentos Históricos e da Sustentabilidade na Construção Civil, apesar de distintos, apresentam certo grau de complementaridade. São áreas que dependem de processos eminentemente coletivos para seu avanço, e que se consagram como tradições culturais importantes no enfrentamento da deterioração dos espaços urbanos contemporâneos. A matéria é atual e urgente. Entretanto, o debate sobre o projeto arquitetônico como instrumento de valorização cultural e requalificação ainda é incipiente. Como analisar as intervenções atuais em edifícios degradados? Qual a relevância da

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VITIELLO, UMBERTO. "A Sustainable Framework for the Optimization of Retrofit Strategies of Existing Buildings." Tesi di dottorato, 2017. http://www.fedoa.unina.it/12039/1/VITIELLO_UMBERTO_30.pdf.

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The construction industry is one of the major causes of both the consumption of natural resources and environmental pollution. Buildings have a significant environmental impact during their life-cycle, consuming huge amounts of energy and natural assets and affecting the air and water quality in our cities. The life-cycle of a building consists of two phases: design and facility management (FM). Raw materials such as steel, concrete, iron, wood and brick are used in the first stage, while natural resources like water, natural gas and energy are utilized throughout the entire life-cycle. In ad

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Schulz, Kari. "Warm homes, greener living: reducing energy poverty in Daniel McIntyre and St. Matthews through energy retrofits." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/5050.

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This research examines energy poverty in the Daniel McIntyre and St. Matthews (DMSM) neighbourhoods in the city of Winnipeg. Energy poverty, defined as households spending more than 6% of their income on energy expenditures, affects as many as 50% of households in DMSM. Energy poverty can be alleviated through energy retrofits for dwellings such as weather stripping; increasing insulation in exterior walls, the attic and basement; and installing a high-efficiency furnace. The recommendations include: establishing consistent housing and energy efficiency policies; increasing the flexibility

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