http://www2.fau.usp.br/cursos/graduacao/arq_urbanismo/disciplinas/aut0221/Material_de_Apoio/Certificacoes/Haapio_2008_Assessement_Tools.pdf

A critical review of building environmental assessment tools

In the last few decades, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has received increasing attention from the international scientific community, political institutions, and environmental governances for improving the comfort, health, and wellbeing of building occupants.[...].

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/11/1286/pdf

Indoor Air Quality and Health

The energy conservation through energy efficiency in the building has acquired prime importance all over the world. The four main aspects for energy efficiency in a building include first and foremost the nearly zero energy passive building design before actual construction, secondly the usage of low energy building materials during its construction, thirdly use of energy efficient equipments for low operational energy requirement and lastly integration of renewable energy technologies for various applications. These aspects have been discussed along with their economics and environmental impacts briefly in this paper. The first aspect is related to the prior design before construction of a solar passive building techniques adapted all over the world not only for passive heating/cooling but also for daylighting the building. Second is utilizing the low embodied energy building materials for building construction. The third aspect deals with the operational energy conservation using energy efficient equipments in the building. Lastly, the building has to include utility of integrated renewable systems for hot water heating, solar photovoltaic electrification, etc.

Renewable energy technologies for sustainable development of energy efficient building

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/260832/1/Pomponi_et_al-2016-Journal_of_Environmental_Management-AM.pdf

Embodied carbon mitigation and reduction in the built environment - What does the evidence say?

Sulphuric acid (H2SO4) was utilized as an activator for the preparation of activated carbon from a biomass solid waste, coconut leaves. The sulphuric acid-treated activated carbon (SAC) was used as low-cost adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue (MB) cationic dye from aqueous solution. Adsorption of MB using SAC from aqueous solution under equilibrium and kinetic conditions in batch mode was evaluated by varying adsorbent dose (0.2–2.5 g/L), solution pH (3–11), initial dye concentration (30–400 mg/L), contact time (0–180 min) and temperature (303–323 K). The Langmuir isotherm model showed better fit to the equilibrium data than the Freundlich model. The adsorption capacity (qm) of SAC increased with temperature where qm varied as follows: 126.9 (303 K), 137.0 (313 K) and 149.3 mg/g (323 K). The kinetic uptake results were well described by the pseudo-second-order (PSO) kinetic for each temperatures. The thermodynamic adsorption parameters (∆G°, ∆H° and ∆S°) were driven by favourable entropic ...

Adsorption of methylene blue onto activated carbon developed from biomass waste by H2SO4 activation: kinetic, equilibrium and thermodynamic studies

People spend most of their time in various indoor spaces and their health is exposed to different kinds of air pollutants. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) belong to a group of chemical substances polluting the indoor environment. They come into the interior of buildings mainly from internal sources in the form of building materials, flooring, composite wood products, adhesives and other consumer products. Their presence in indoor air is monitored, due to their carcinogenic and mutagenic effects on human health. Many studies of indoor environment contaminated by VOC have been published during the last years. The present study provides general overview of the occurrence and emission sources of VOCs in the indoor environment of different types of buildings. The most frequently monitored indoor organic pollutants in terms of their occurrence and health risk are BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes), terpenes (α-pinene and d-limonene) and aldehydes (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and benzaldehyde). Their concentrations in different indoor environments are variable and depend on factors such as emission characteristics of sources, microclimatic and ventilation conditions. Formaldehyde and toluene levels increased significantly with increasing room temperature. Benzene enters the indoor environment of buildings from external sources, especially from traffic or industrial areas. Formaldehyde, α-pinene and d-limonene originate from indoor sources as a part of building materials, furniture and household products.

Building Materials as Potential Emission Sources of VOC in the Indoor Environment of Buildings

The sustainability assessment methods used over the world were the basis of new system development for Slovak conditions. The proposed fields are site selection and project planning; building construction; indoor environmental quality; energy performance; water and waste management. The evaluated indicators were proposed on the basis of available information analysis from particular fields of building environmental assessment and also on the basis of our experimental experiences. The aim of this paper is to present developed building environmental assessment system oriented to energy performance and the significance weight determination. Percentage weight of fields and indicators was determined on the basis of their significance, according to mathematical method.

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Silvia Vilčeková

Papers

Building Materials as Potential Emission Sources of VOC in the Indoor Environment of Buildings

Multi-criteria analysis of building assessment regarding energy performance using a life-cycle approach

Investigation of Particulate Matters of the University Classroom in Slovakia

Energy performance indicators developing

Comparison of Environmental and Energy Performance of Exterior Walls