Achieving energy efficient buildings via retrofitting of existing buildings: a case study

Zhou, Zhihua; Zhang, Shuzhen; Wang, Chendong; Zuo, Jian; He, Qing; Rameezdeen, Raufdeen

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.046

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“…Thus improving efficiency should improve wellbeing if, as a result, buildings' indoor temperatures are warmer and more inhabitants are able to achieve thermal comfort (Zhou et al, 2016). However respondents who lived in stuffy houses had poorer wellbeing.…”

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City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing?

Hiscock

Asikainen

Tuomisto

et al. 2017

Preventive Medicine Reports

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Climate change mitigation policies aim to reduce climate change through reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions whereas adaption policies seek to enable humans to live in a world with increasingly variable and more extreme climatic conditions. It is increasingly realised that enacting such policies will have unintended implications for public health, but there has been less focus on their implications for wellbeing. Wellbeing can be defined as a positive mental state which is influenced by living conditions. As part of URGENCHE, an EU funded project to identify health and wellbeing outcomes of city greenhouse gas emission reduction policies, a survey designed to measure these living conditions and levels of wellbeing in Kuopio, Finland was collected in December 2013. Kuopio was the northmost among seven cities in Europe and China studied. Generalised estimating equation modelling was used to determine which living conditions were associated with subjective wellbeing (measured through the WHO-5 Scale). Local greenspace and spending time in nature were associated with higher levels of wellbeing whereas cold housing and poor quality indoor air were associated with lower levels of wellbeing. Thus adaption policies to increase greenspace might, in addition to reducing heat island effects, have the co-benefit of increasing wellbeing and improving housing insulation.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing?

Hiscock

Asikainen

Tuomisto

et al. 2017

Preventive Medicine Reports

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“…A questionnaire survey by Gillingham given to owners identified energy efficiency policies as the most important drivers for building energy service market development [22]. Zhou's case study highlighted energy-saving technology for market development [23]. Hori's survey revealed a positive relation between CSR and energy-saving [24].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Dynamic Feedback Analysis of Influencing Factors of Existing Building Energy-Saving Renovation Market Based on System Dynamics in China

2019

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Existing buildings energy-saving renovation is an important means to cope with global warming and an essential component of achieving China’s energy conservation and pollution emissions reduction strategy goals. The development of the energy-saving renovation market is closely related to its influencing factors, which determine the reasons and conditions for the development of the system; therefore, it is necessary to study the influencing factors of energy-saving transformations. System dynamics was applied to explore the feedback relationship between the service subsystem, the demand market subsystem, and the market regulation subsystem. Analysis was performed for the intrinsic influencing factors of the development of the existing building energy-saving renovation market and the interaction law of feedback relationship. This paper discusses the basic characteristics of government incentives, Energy Service Company (ESCO) technology innovation, ESCO’s revenue, and owner’s awareness to promote the development of the existing building energy-saving renovation market. Base on those, it puts forward suggestions for promoting the market development of existing buildings energy-saving reconstruction. The findings provided a theoretical basis and guiding role for the Chinese government to formulate support policies for existing building energy-saving renovation. At the same time, it also provides reference for other countries to develop existing buildings energy-saving renovation market.

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“…The approach in this research can be applied to both new designs and existing buildings. Energy-saving policies in both Japan and China for existing buildings are discussed in Reference [17]. Both countries are facing several obstacles such as high transaction cost and a lack of innovation and awareness, which are very critical to reducing CO 2 emissions in the building sector.…”

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Feasibility Study and Impact of Daylight on Illumination Control for Energy-Saving Lighting Systems

Bunjongjit

Ngaopitakkul

2018

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The main goal of energy conservation should be reducing the consumption of energy resources. Due to energy and environmental concerns in recent years, to reduce energy consumption in a lighting system, which has been one of the prime targets of energy saving, daylighting has been investigated and has become one of the energy-efficiency techniques widely applied in buildings. This paper presents an analysis of T5 fluorescent luminaire lighting control using daylight in a building. The study is conducted in two parts; simulation of a lecture room using the daylighting function of the DIALux program is performed to estimate the effect of daylighting on a task area (workplane). Another part is an experimental setup to evaluate the performance of a lighting control unit that is installed for a T5 fluorescent luminaire with a dimmable electronic ballast. The efficiency of the lighting control in term of illumination on the task area and energy consumption are also evaluated and compared with the standard case. The simulation results show that daylighting increases illuminance on a task area, especially on the window side, so the lighting system can significantly reduce its power consumption compared with a standard case (without lighting control). The experimental result shows that upon installing the lighting control with daylighting, both the average illuminance and the energy consumption in each time period are decreased compared with in the standard case. Lighting control with daylighting tries to set the average illuminance on a task area to less than 500 lux, corresponding to the amount of daylight passing through window shutters. The obtained results are useful for the design of a T5 fluorescent luminaire with lighting control using daylighting in a building lighting system for energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption, including the average illuminance on the task area, according to a relevant standard.

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Achieving energy efficient buildings via retrofitting of existing buildings: a case study

Cited by 112 publications

References 30 publications

City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing?

City scale climate change policies: Do they matter for wellbeing?

Dynamic Feedback Analysis of Influencing Factors of Existing Building Energy-Saving Renovation Market Based on System Dynamics in China

Feasibility Study and Impact of Daylight on Illumination Control for Energy-Saving Lighting Systems

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