building energy performance Articles
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Does organising matter? Tracing connections to environmental impacts in different housing estates
Much of the research on buildings and the environment is of a technical-economic nature. But so far, this has not led to any great changes in practice. This article brings organising into the research agenda: Does organising matter for the environmental performance of buildings? If so, how? This question is investigated by a comparative analysis based on an empirical approach. Two housing ...
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Do certified sustainable buildings perform better than similar conventional buildings?
The aim of this study is to assess the performance of sustainable buildings. Its objective is to compare certified green buildings with similar in location, size, age and function conventional buildings by testing hypotheses that green buildings perform better than conventional ones. Objective data including building costs, energy and water consumption, material recycling, indoor pollution ...
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Alta diagonal office building Barcelona, Spain - Case Study
Key Parameters Type of Facility – Existing Building (EB) Function –Office Building Area – 9 stories, 93,500 square feet Project Completed – 2012 Challenge: Sustainable design in a complete renovation of one of Barcelona’s most distinctive buildings in the heart of the city’s financial district. The building’s owner sought to transform an iconic ...
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Greening the Built Environment
ASTM Standards and Products Form the Foundation of Sustainable Construction Efforts Today, a major focal point for the worldwide building industry is the growing demand for sustainable construction. Sustainable, or “green,” construction is focused on the more effective use of resources and ultimately the creation of healthier, energy efficient, more environmentally friendly homes and ...
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Incorporating energy performance, sustainability of buildings into environmental due diligence
This article examines recent trends related to climate change and sustainability and their impacts on environmental due diligence. The authors say quantifying a building's energy and sustainability condition, performance, and potential will become commonplace and now is being incorporated into routine commercial real estate transactions. They believe commercial property sellers should consider ...
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Green Walls: The New Wall-Y Technical Manual Is Online
The Wall-Y Technical Manual is now available on our website, with updated data and a new graphic design. A useful tool to have all the technical specifications of our product and the prescriptions to correctly design systems for vertical green walls. Wall-Y, the high-strength Geoplast grid, is the ideal solution for creating green walls and for delimiting spaces in gardens or inside buildings. ...
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Measurements and Standards to Support Increased Energy Efficiency and Reduced Environmental Impact
“The world is facing twin energy-related threats: that of not having adequate and secure supplies of energy at affordable prices and that of environmental harm caused by consuming too much of it.” Daniel Hecker, economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2005 Buildings in the U.S. consume 72 percent of all electrical energy produced in this country. Emissions associated with ...
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Indoor Air Quality, Energy consumption and building performance: leveraging technology to improve all three - Forwood Cloud Wiser III Environmental Dynamics Group, Inc. Princeton, New Jersey USA
Abstract: Building owners and occupants expect more from their buildings today – both better indoor air quality (IAQ) and less energy consumption. Many facilities strive to design and commission a ‘smart building’ – one that is healthy, environmentally conscious and operating in the most efficient way possible. However, maintaining optimum IAQ often seems to be in conflict ...
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What Are the Benefits of Stainless Steel Perforated Sheet Plate?
Stainless steel perforated material can be used for a wide range of applications. That’s because this type of product has several interesting benefits for a variety of projects. Here you can have a look. 1. Excellent Corrosion and Rust Resistance This kind of sheet uses a stainless steel plate as substrate, an alloy material containing chromium to resist iron oxide formed by interaction ...
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How Germany plans to succeed in a nuclear free, low carbon economy
Germany has taken some fundamental energy decisions in recent months, ones that are interesting for other countries to study and learn from. The most “famous” decision recently has been to phase out nuclear power in the next ten years. This move builds on years of debate and a societal decision after Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident to move away from nuclear energy. ...
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Overview of reported national policies and measures on climate change mitigation in Europe in 2015
Information reported by Member States under the European Union Monitoring Mechanism Regulation This technical report presents a synthesis of the information on climate change mitigation policies and measures (PaMs) (1) reported in 2015 by Member States under the European Union (EU) Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (MMR) (2). The report aims to provide an overview of the main characteristics of ...
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Green Buildings: Economics and Policies
Introduction Green building has received increased attention over the past decade from both environmental economists and policymakers. While there is no single definition of “green buildings” or its related policy, researchers and organizations tend to emphasize resource efficiency in building and reducing the impacts of buildings on human health and the environment. Thus a growing ...
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