Inevitably, the 21st century has initiated a series of developments in the construction industry, leading to its digitalization and resulting in a series of innovative approaches and practices. At the same time, the construction industry, being one of the main global environment polluters, should fulfil well-established, as well as novel, sustainability requirements in order to evolve in harmony with the rising concerns on the availability of natural resources. This overview study aims to present the main developments, research, and scientific challenges in the field of sustainable construction, emphasizing the field of energy. The study aims to present a state-of-the-art scientific discussion on the sustainable built environment topic by analyzing cutting edge topics in the fields of building elements and whole building energy assessment, of indoor air quality and low carbon buildings, as well as on sustainable energy systems and smart buildings. The study also presents the state-of-the-art in existing tools which are adopted for the assessment of the sustainable built environment, including the use of digital tools and building information modelling for the energy assessment of the built environment, as well as the application of Life Cycle Assessment on building-related processes. Cross cutting issues related to the analysis of the building sector in the Industry 4.0 era, such as sustainability management topics and environmental geomatics are also discussed. The study concludes in those fields which will be of interest of the scientific community in the following years, towards achieving the goals of the sustainable development of the building sector.
Measuring and monitoring sustainability plays an essential role in impact assessment of global changes and development. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) represents a reliable and adequate technique for assessing sustainability, especially in the field of municipal buildings management, where numerous parameters and criteria are involved. This study presents an MCDM model for the sustainable decision-making, tailored to municipal residential buildings facilities management. The main outcome of this research concerned normalized and weighted decision-making matrixes, based on the complex proportion assessment (COPRAS) and weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) methods, applied for ranking investment alternatives related to the management of the buildings. The delivered model was applied to 20 municipal buildings of Kaunas city municipality, located in Lithuania, which an EU member state employing practices and regulations in accordance with the EU acquis, as well as a former Soviet Republic. The proposed model aspires to enhance sustainability practices in the management of municipal buildings and to demonstrate a solid tool that will allow informed decision-making in the building management sector.
The Degree Certificates are giving reference to the joint programme. The doctoral candidates are jointly supervised, and must pass a joint examination procedure set up by the three institutions issuing the degrees. This Thesis is a part of the examination for the doctoral degree. The invested degrees are official in Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden, respectively. SETS Joint Doctorate was awarded the Erasmus Mundus excellence label by the European Commission in year 2010, and the European Commission's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, EACEA, has supported the funding of this programme. The EACEA is not to be held responsible for contents of the Thesis. vi Energy Management of Smart Cities Christian F. Calvillo Muñoz Energy Management of Smart Cities 1 Christian F. Calvillo Muñoz Chapter 7 Complete smart city energy model: aggregated DER and transport systems with active market participation Chapter 8 Conclusions, contributions and future work Chapter 1 Energy Management of Smart Cities 9 Christian F. Calvillo Muñoz 2 2 LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter presents the identification of energy systems task, corresponding to the smart city energy model methodology described in section 1.3. This includes the evaluation of energy systems available in a smart city, assessing their importance and possible synergies, in addition to the review of the existing models and tools, to select which ones could be used. The first part of the chapter introduces an overview of energy related work on planning and operation models within the smart city by classifying their scope into five main intervention areas. These areas are generation, storage, infrastructure, facilities, and transport. Then, more complex urban energy models integrating more than one intervention area are reviewed, outlining their advantages and limitations, existing trends and challenges, as well as some relevant smart cities applications. With this revision, important elements and possible synergies in the smart city are identified, and a framework for developing a comprehensive smart city energy model is proposed, along with some additional recommendations. Therefore, the main contributions of this chapter are, first, a comprehensive literature review of smart city energy systems and related modelling tools, classifying them in five intervention areas, and second, a framework with guidelines and recommendations for developing a comprehensive smart city energy model.
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