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Cost–benefit analysis for green façades and living wall systems
Katia Perini,Paolo Rosasco +1 more
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In this article, the authors presented a cost-benefit analysis of different vertical greening systems (green facades and living wall systems) considering personal and social benefits and costs over their life cycle.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 269 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cost–benefit analysis & Life-cycle cost analysis.read more
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Deterrents to the adoption of green walls: a hybrid fuzzy-based approach
Sanaz Tabatabaee,Mojtaba Ashour,Saeed Reza Mohandes,Haleh Sadeghi,Amir Mahdiyar,M. Reza Hosseini,Syuhaida Ismail +6 more
TL;DR: Considering the dearth of studies on hindrances to the adoption of GWs, this paper provides a comprehensive outlook of the issue, providing knowledge that can be used as a building block for future scholars within the field.
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Dealing with the eco-design paradox in research and development projects: The concept of sustainability assessment levels
Natalia Chebaeva,Miriam Lettner,Julia Wenger,Josef-Peter Schöggl,Josef-Peter Schöggl,Franziska Hesser,Daniel Holzer,Tobias Stern +7 more
TL;DR: A systematic classification system for the available sustainability assessment methods is described and the concept of sustainability assessment levels is inductively derived from the well-known concept of technology readiness level to support the early integration of sustainability assessments in research and development.
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Living Wall (Vertical Greening): Benefits and Threats
TL;DR: In this paper, different types of living wall systems as a method of sustainable development and their opportunities and threats were discussed, as well as their potential benefits and threats for sustainable development.
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Green Façade Effects on Thermal Environment in Transitional Space: Field Measurement Studies and Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the thermal effects of the green facades foliage and found that three typologies of GFs are more effective in regulating the thermal environment in the summer.
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Holistic analysis and prediction of life cycle cost for vertical greenery systems in Singapore
TL;DR: This study established a prediction model for the life cycle cost (LCC) of VGS using the data from forty cases of three types of V GS and selected the OPLS model as it has relatively good prediction performance and can avoid the collinearity issue encountered by the other two methods.
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