Database of energy, environmental and economic indicators of renovation packages for European residential buildings

Dipasquale, Chiara; Fedrizzi, Roberto; Bellini, Alessandro; Gustafsson, Marcus; Ochs, Fabian; Bales, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109427

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“…The maximum consumption legally allowed differs across the Member States, but nevertheless, it has consistently been lowered compared to the benchmark of those built up in the second half of the 20th century, when the majority of European cities experienced major growth. Technically speaking, the feasibility of low energy or even net-zero residential buildings has been confirmed [92], as well as the specifications of intervention packages for those already build [93] and guidelines for the implementation of nearly zero-energy neighborhoods [94]. However, action plans for improving the existing building stock still deserve research because of the need to couple construction works and systems enhancement into the daily life of occupants-buildings are usually inhabited and not empty-and the existence of various economic perspectives [95], social habits or behaviors and decision-making capacities [96].…”

Section: The Marginal Implicit Value Of Energy Efficiency In Buildingsmentioning

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Assessing Multiple Benefits of Housing Regeneration and Smart City Development: The European Project SINFONIA

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2020

Sustainability

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The urban energy transition towards more sustainable energy production and consumption systems is at the top of the European Union political agenda. Several demonstration projects are dealing with the deep-energy retrofit of real-estate assets to show how technological and societal innovation can provide new investment opportunities while enhancing citizens’ quality of life by delivering multiple benefits. In this framework, the EU smart city project SINFONIA has developed and tested a new comprehensive framework to define, identify, and evaluate the main multiple benefits expected from similar initiatives. The present contribution reviews the three assessment exercises carried out in the lighthouse city of Bolzano during the project execution, consisting of an investigation of the users’ stated preferences, an evaluation of consumers‘ revealed preferences and a multicriteria analysis of homeowners’ priorities. It offers an overview of the main achievements and sheds light on further investigatory paths applicable to Positive Energy Districts assessment.

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Section: The Marginal Implicit Value Of Energy Efficiency In Buildingsmentioning

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Assessing Multiple Benefits of Housing Regeneration and Smart City Development: The European Project SINFONIA

Bisello

2020

Sustainability

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“…Also, manufacturing of the various components of BEMS including smart meter, sensing devices, smart appliances, the controller can create employment opportunities, thus linking to the target of SDG 8.3 [285]- [288]. BEMS can act as a sustainable model to promote economic growth [289]- [291] which can be linked to the target of SDG 9.1. The effective utilization of energy between supply and load can be achieved through the implementation of microgrid [292], distributed power generation [293], smart grid [294], and virtual power plant [295] which is related to the target of SDG 12.1.…”

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Intelligent Controllers and Optimization Algorithms for Building Energy Management Towards Achieving Sustainable Development: Challenges and Prospects

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Buildings account for a significant amount of energy consumption leading to the issues of global emissions and climate change. Thus, energy management in a building is increasingly explored due to its significant potential in reducing the overall electricity expenses for the consumers and mitigating carbon emissions. In line with that, the greater control and optimization of energy management integrated with renewable energy resources is required to improve building energy efficiency while satisfying indoor environment comfort. Even though actions are being taken to reduce the energy consumption in buildings with several optimization and controller techniques, yet some issues remain unsolved. Therefore, this work provides a comprehensive review of the conventional and intelligent control methods with emphasis on their classification, features, configuration, benefits, and drawbacks. This review critically investigates the different optimization objectives and constraints with respect to comfort management, energy consumption, and scheduling. Furthermore, the review outlines the different methodological approaches to optimization algorithms used in building energy management. The contributions of controller and optimization in building energy management with the relation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) are explained rigorously. Discussions on the key challenges of the existing methods are presented to identify the gaps for future research. The review delivers some effective future directions that would be beneficial to the researchers and industrialists to design an efficiently optimized controller for building energy management toward targeting SDGs.INDEX TERMS Building energy management, controller, optimization, scheduling, sustainable development goals I. INTRODUCTIONPresently, buildings take the lead in consuming a substantial amount of energy, indicating about 40% of global energy consumption, which is responsible to release one-third of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [1], [2]. Another report demonstrates that buildings hold 49% of the total energy worldwide in which 60% of the energy is consumed for heating and cooling purposes [3], [4]. The poor management and ineffective control approach of appliances used in the building may result in a significant loss of energy in a

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“…Generally, an office can be considered to be an entire building, a part of the building or just a room with the main objectives being to provide a comfortable, healthy and safe work environment for the users. Considering the entire building, according to the project iNSPIRE [30,31] most of the office buildings (85%) in Spain are built with reinforced concrete and masonry; other structures include glass combined with stainless steel or concrete. Office buildings in Germany generally are built with a reinforced concrete structure including a curtain wall facade.…”

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“…In Finland almost half of non-residential buildings use wood as a construction material. However, the use of concrete and bricks has increased over the years with a reduction of the average global heat transfer, U, value [30,31] towards the direction of meeting the requirements established by EU legislation [32]. In this framework, the present study focused on offices whose envelopes were constructed in accordance with the latest national building codes of the corresponding countries [33][34][35].…”

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An Innovative Solar-Biomass Energy System to Increase the Share of Renewables in Office Buildings

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Increasing the energy efficiency of residential and non-residential buildings is a crucial point towards the development of the sustainable cities of the future. To reach such a goal, the commonly employed intervention measures (for instance, on facades and glass) are not sufficient and efforts in reaching a fully renewable energy generation are mandatory. In this context, this paper discusses the applicability of a system with solar and biomass as the main energy sources in different climates for heating, cooling, domestic hot water and electricity generation in office buildings. The energy system includes solar thermal collectors with thermoelectric generators, a biomass boiler, a reversible heat pump/organic Rankine cycle and an adsorption chiller. The results showed that the system can operate with a share of renewables higher than 70% for all energy needs, with up to 80% of the overall energy demand supplied only by solar and biomass sources even in the northern locations.

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Database of energy, environmental and economic indicators of renovation packages for European residential buildings

Cited by 22 publications

References 14 publications

Assessing Multiple Benefits of Housing Regeneration and Smart City Development: The European Project SINFONIA

Assessing Multiple Benefits of Housing Regeneration and Smart City Development: The European Project SINFONIA

Intelligent Controllers and Optimization Algorithms for Building Energy Management Towards Achieving Sustainable Development: Challenges and Prospects

An Innovative Solar-Biomass Energy System to Increase the Share of Renewables in Office Buildings

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