Energy efficiency in buildings: What drives the investments? The case of Lombardy Region

Aste, N.; Caputo, Paola; Buzzetti, Michela; Fattore, M.

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2015.09.003

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“…Nduka & Ogunsanmi, 2015;Ng, 2013;Shazmin et al, 2016). On the other hand, some studies have attributed the motivators related to the environmental and social aspects, such as; protection of the environment and ecosystem, control of climate change, waste reduction, and improving the quality of life as the most important factors (Abidin & Powmya, 2014;Aste et al, 2016;Bond, 2010;Lee et al, 2013;MacNaughton et al, 2016;Rustom, 2014;Usman & Gidado, 2015;Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013).…”

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“…(Lam et al, 2010), (Bond, 2010), (Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013), (Lee et al, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Abidin & Powmya, 2014), (Rustom, 2014), (D. Nduka & Ogunsanmi, 2015), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Azar & Al Ansari, 2017), 2 Control of climate change. (Bond, 2010), (Gündoğan, 2012), (Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013), (Lee et al, 2013), (Rustom, 2014), (Aste et al, 2016) 3 Compatibility with environmental regulations (McGraw-Hill, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Dodge, 2016), (Shen et al, 2016), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017) 4…”

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“…Providing a good opportunity for investment returns (Construction, 2008), (Chan et al, 2009), (M. Azizi & Sakina, 2010), (Gündoğan, 2012), (Azis et al, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Yang et al, 2017), 11 Increasing occupant productivity (Construction, 2008), (Chan et al, 2009), (Ng, 2013), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), 12 Increasing occupancy rate (Construction, 2008), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017) 13 Increasing rental and sale value (Construction, 2008), (Chan et al, 2009), (Azis et al, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Usman & Gidado, 2015) 14 Providing lower annual energy cost (Construction, 2008), (Lam et al, 2010), (Gündoğan, 2012), (Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013), (Ng, 2013), (Windapo, 2014), (Rustom, 2014), (D. Nduka & Ogunsanmi, 2015), (Aste et al, 2016), (Shen et al, 2016), (Shazmin et al, 2016), (Deutsche, 2016), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Azar & Al Ansari, 2017) …”

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“…Creating of better future opportunities (Ng, 2013), (Deutsche, 2016) 26 Self-identity (M. Azizi & Sakina, 2010), (Bond, 2010), (Abidin & Powmya, 2014), (Darko, Zhang, et al, 2017), (Olubunmi et al, 2016), (Olanipekun, 2016), (Deutsche, 2016) 3 9.375 (Gündoğan, 2012), (McGraw-Hill, 2013), (Waidyasekara & Fernando, 2013), (Rustom, 2014), (Usman & Gidado, 2015), (Dodge, 2016) (Bond, 2010), (Azis et al, 2013), (Lee et al, 2013), (Dahiru et al, 2014), (Windapo, 2014), (Aste et al, 2016), (MacNaughton et al, 2016), (Shazmin et al, 2016), , (Azar & Al Ansari, 2017), (Yang et al, 2017), Handan Gundogan (2012), pointed out in her study that, in Turkey "Reducing negative impacts of buildings on environment" was the primary motivation for the implementation of green buildings, followed by "Decreased use of natural resources", "Control of the climate change", and "Increased water and air quality" respectively (Gündoğan, 2012).…”

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Motivators for Green Buildings: A Review

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2018

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Motivators can be defined as specific catalysts that drive people to act in a certain way. These motivators are important for promoting green buildings and have a clear impact on decision-makers to adopt and implement the green building concept in architectural practice. This paper presents a comprehensive literature review to identify the important motivators for the adoption of green buildings among the stakeholders of the construction industry, the categorization and efficiency of green building motivators, and also the strategies for green building motivators.By reviewing 32 relevant studies conducted in different countries from 2008 to 2017, a total of 26 factors were identified as the main motivators to promote green buildings. These green building motivators were categorized into environmental, economic, and social motivators. With regard to efficiency, it was found that all green building motivators, whether environmental, economic or social are important for promoting green buildings and to determine a priority among these categories was not possible. The strategies for the adoption of green building motivators were also found. It is notable that the government has the greatest role to motivate stakeholders to adopt and implement the green building concept.The literature review of this study has a wide scope, covering most of the countries in the world, including developed and developing countries from the West to East. Hence, unlike most studies on the main issue of this paper that focus on a specific country or region, this in-depth research led to the development of a list of motivators for green buildings, derived from an extensive range of nations, which vary from environmental, economic, and social ISSN 2164-7682 2018 http://emsd.macrothink.org 138 aspects. This paper is expected to provide valuable information for decision-makers in the construction industry, namely, governmental authorities, design teams, and owners of projects regarding what motivate people to help further promote green buildings. The findings may also be useful for researchers to pursue further analyses on similar topics. Environmental Management and Sustainable Development

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“…The operating costs were evaluated with reference to the Italian scenario by assuming the unit cost of natural gas equal to 0.09 €/kWh [27]. Table 9 highlights the initial investment and the energy saving obtained during the first year since the retrofitting.…”

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Energy Retrofitting Strategies and Economic Assessments: The Case Study of a Residential Complex Using Utility Bills

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Promotion of retrofit actions on existing buildings is a goal in Italy, since most of them were built before the 80 s when little attention was paid to energy saving. This paper presents an integrated passive design approach to reduce the heating demand and limit the costs of a representative existing residential complex located in Bologna, in the northern part of Italy. To this purpose, we explored different scenarios upon actions taken on the building structure: (1) High efficiency windows; (2) additional insulation on the external walls; or (3) the simultaneous application of high efficiency windows and improved thermal envelope, on both external walls and roofing. The numerical optimization has been performed dynamically using TRNSYS simulation tool, to evaluate energy consumptions in different structural conditions. Then, the developed model has been calibrated by the real consumption data deduced from energy bills (years 2009-2015). Finally, the energy results obtained in the above mentioned different scenarios have been evaluated under an economic assessment of cost investment: It has been highlighted that the payback time (PBT) results to be strongly influenced by the national policies of fiscal incentives. According to the present model, the most profitable condition is obtained when additional insulation on the external walls is applied: The total amount of energy saving resulted to be equal to 930.4 MWh, with an optimal PBT of roughly six years, when tax refund was contemplated.

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