building energy efficiency Articles
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Analysis of the impacts of building energy efficiency policies and technical improvements on China's future energy demand
In this paper, the LEAP (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system) 2000 model and scenario analysis were utilised to study the impact of implementing building energy efficiency policies and promoting related technical improvements on China's future building energy demand up to 2020. In the coming 20 years, China's building energy consumption is expected to increase and will be the main ...
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Valuation of urban sustainability and building energy efficiency: a case study
The general objective of the research is to set up a strategy of sustainable conservation at two levels: at city level, to conceive and plan interventions at block, street, neighbourhood scale; at building level to propose and design specific conservation and enhancement interventions that pay particular attention to the ecological and energy dimensions. Specific objective of the research is to ...
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Exergy analysis combined with LCA for building envelope energy efficiency retrofit
This article presents a kind of exergy analysis combined with LCA to evaluate the building envelope energy efficiency retrofit. A typical case in Ningbo city of China is analysed. The results show that it takes 15 years for the cumulative saved energy consumption in the use stage to equal the embodied energy of the newly added insulation materials in the product stage. Yet, it is impossible that ...
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Case study - Multi-tenant building energy efficiency
Buildings accounted for roughly 40% of total U.S. energy consumption in 2010, according to the United States Energy Information Association. “[New York] City's roughly 1 million buildings cost $15 billion a year to power and heat and account for 80% of the city's greenhouse gas emissions”(1). The proliferation of smart energy devices and building management systems will result in the ...
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10 measures to make buildings more energy efficient
Reducing the energy consumption of your bricks and mortar is fast becoming a no-brainer for any business, specially, with the Government setting its sights on existing buildings as a key focus in helping to meet its carbon reduction targets, and with the price of energy and carbon continuing to rise for the near future. But, while substantial money savings can be achieved from retrofitting your ...
By Vital Energi
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Survey: What will it take to make buildings more energy efficient?
Companies are unaware of the actual costs of their energy use. Less than a third have commissioned energy audits for their buildings. Further, two thirds of those surveyed overestimate the cost of energy efficient construction. A surprising 75 percent saw benefit in energy regulation and described lack of enforcement as a problem. The solution Not too much carrot and not too much stick, ...
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Building Management System helps DECC to cut carbon emissions by 20%
DECC surpasses 10:10 pledge to cut emissions by 10% in 2010 thanks to building management system and energy-efficiency ...
By Vital Energi
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Exergetic assessment of transmission–concentrated solar energy systems via optical fibres for building applications
Optical fibres solar energy transmission and concentration provide a flexible way of handling concentrated solar energy. Solar lighting with Fibre Optic Bundles (FOBs) can be considered a promising option for energy–efficient green buildings. This study deals with the exergetic analysis and performance assessment of a system based on the idea of Transmission–Concentrated Solar Energy via Optical ...
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SMEs demand help to the UK government to cut carbon emissions
A new report examines how SMEs can contribute to the government’s carbon emissions 2020 targets and recommends a range of measures. A new report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) titled “Making Sense of Going Green”, supports the government must include measures to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) cut carbon emissions through the upcoming Energy ...
By Vital Energi
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Sustainability as a matter of social context: information technologies and the environment
The paper focuses on the potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve the sustainability of residential buildings. While ICT can contribute to improving building energy efficiency (e.g., energy management systems) there are also plausible scenarios of an increasing energy demand triggered by ICT use. The main argument of this paper is that harnessing the sustainability ...
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Significance of design for energy conservation in buildings: building envelope components
Energy efficient buildings consist of using innovative technologies based on renewable energies and a good thermal insulation. Most strategies applied in design and many of the services offered by lodging establishments require the consumption of substantial quantities of energy, water and non–durable products. In most developing countries, it makes perfect sense to focus on the ...
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The Multifold Impacts of Building an Energy Efficient Home
After the breakout of a global pandemic in 2020, people have realized the fragility of human life and how little we can control when it comes to combating the raging impacts of nature. Humankind understands the severity of a situation only when we are forced to deal with the consequences on a personal level. Similarly, while combating covid-19, people all over the world were overwhelmed with the ...
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Riding down the experience curve for energy-efficient building envelopes: the Swiss case for 1970–2020
Energy efficiency potentials of building envelopes are significant and still largely untapped. Increasing concerns of policy-makers about non-sustainable energy use and climate change spur a growing research interest in this area. This paper fills part of the existing knowledge gap by focusing on experience curve aspects of energy efficiency measures that concern state-of-the-art insulation ...
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ECOMONDO and KEY ENERGY digital editions start Tuesday, November 3 with Costa, Patuanelli and Di Maio. The states general of the green economy open the morning
The green economy world has never stopped, in spite of the difficulties, even in the year of the pandemic. Confirmation arrives from Ecomondo and Key Energy, the Italian Exhibition Group expos dedicated, respectively, to the recovery of material and sustainable development and to renewable energies, which will run from tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd November, until Sunday 15th November on the IEG digital ...
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Project - FP194 - Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB) Cool
The Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB) Cool includes 11 countries across four continents spanning seven different climates: the Mediterranean, humid subtropical, tropical, equatorial, arid, mountain, and continental. These countries suffer from climate change with temperatures reaching levels that increase heat-related health risks.? Climate change will lead to an increase in ...
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Four rules to improve energy efficiency with Intelligent Buildings
The new wave of energy efficiency is based on waste reduction, instead of sacrifice and discomfort as it used to be years ago. Everything is automated now, with no need to turn down thermostats manually. A Building Management System is considered central to the concept of an ‘Intelligent Building’ and is a vital tool in any organisation’s drive to improve energy efficiency ...
By Vital Energi
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Project TREE - Transfer Renewable Energy Efficiency - Case Study
TREE stands for Transfer Renewable Energy & Efficiency. TREE is a German scholarship program. TREE facilitates know-how transfer and capacity building in renewable energies, energy efficiency and climate protection, for decision makers, high potentials and engineers from developing and emerging countries. The TREE project, started in 2008 and run by the Renewables Academy AG (RENAC), is ...
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US at top worldwide in EE innovation
This week’s energy news looks bad for the United States – at first glance. The nation has slipped to second behind China in clean energy investment. Moreover, five of the G-20 nations have surpassed the US for clean energy investment relative to size of economy. But look at little deeper into the report, “Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race,” and you’ll see ...
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3 Reasons Businesses are Investing in Energy Optimization
Businesses and commercial building owners are facing more pressure than ever to improve building energy efficiency. Whether these energy initiatives are implemented in response to societal pressures, financial volatility, or government mandates, energy optimization is becoming a more popular priority across industries. What is Energy Optimization? Energy optimization, is the process of ...
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