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Zero energy buildings and sustainable development implications ― A review
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In this paper, a review of the works related to these two strategies is presented and issues pertaining to sustainable development implications and further research work required are also highlighted, including life cycle cost and environmental impacts, climate change and social policy issues.About:
This article is published in Energy.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 446 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Zero-energy building & Efficient energy use.read more
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Retrofitting an office building towards a net zero energy building
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the reduction of energy consumption of an office building in the campus of the Technical University of Crete as well as on the cover of minimized energy demands with renewable energy sources.
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Life Cycle Assessment of a solar thermal system in Spain, eco-design alternatives and derived climate change scenarios at Spanish and Chinese National levels
Jaume Albertí,Juliana Raigosa,Juliana Raigosa,Marco Raugei,Marco Raugei,Rafael Assiego,Rafael Assiego,Joan Ribas-Tur,Nuria Garrido-Soriano,Linghui Zhang,Guobao Song,Patxi Hernandez,Pere Fullana-i-Palmer +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the environmental performance of two scenarios: a solar thermal system for providing domestic hot water (DHW) used in conjunction with a traditional natural gas heating system, and the natural gas system on its own.
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Impact of façade design on indoor air temperatures and cooling loads in residential buildings in the tropical climate
TL;DR: In this article, a parametric study based on a validated model was carried out using EnergyPlus to evaluate the impacts of various facade design factors on indoor air temperatures and cooling loads.
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A comparative study on energy saving and economic efficiency of different cooling terminals based on exergy analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness potential for the solution of air conditioning terminal in ultra-low energy buildings in hot summer and cold winter region of China.
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Embodied energy and cost of building materials: correlation analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an improved input-output-based hybrid (IOH) model to calculate the complete, accurate and material-specific embodied energy of 21 commonly used building materials.
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