Energy-efficient houses built according to the energy performance requirements introduced in Denmark in 2006

Tommerup, Henrik M.; Rose, Jørgen; Svendsen, Svend

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2006.12.011

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“…However, the building industry has an even larger energy and environmental footprint as it is one of the human activities with the largest environmental impact. As noted by Dixit et al [5], the construction industry depleted two-fifths of global raw stone, gravel, and sand; one-fourth of virgin wood; and it consumes 40 percent of total energy and 16 percent of fresh water annually [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. These figures are more or less similar in any developed country.…”

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confidence: 56%

Energy Costs of Energy Savings in Buildings: A Review

Dutil

Rousse

2012

Sustainability

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Abstract:It is often claimed that the cheapest energy is the one you do not need to produce. Nevertheless, this claim could somehow be unsubstantiated. In this article, the authors try to shed some light on this issue by using the concept of energy return on investment (EROI) as a yardstick. This choice brings semantic issues because in this paper the EROI is used in a different context than that of energy production. Indeed, while watts and negawatts share the same physical unit, they are not the same object, which brings some ambiguities in the interpretation of EROI. These are cleared by a refined definition of EROI and an adapted nomenclature. This review studies the research in the energy efficiency of building operation, which is one of the most investigated topics in energy efficiency. This study focuses on the impact of insulation and high efficiency windows as means to exemplify the concepts that are introduced. These results were normalized for climate, life time of the building, and construction material. In many cases, energy efficiency measures imply a very high EROI. Nevertheless, in some circumstances, this is not the case and it might be more profitable to produce the required energy than to try to save it.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 56%

Energy Costs of Energy Savings in Buildings: A Review

Dutil

Rousse

2012

Sustainability

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“…(Turner & Frankel 2008) Another approach, mostly used by building engineers, uses dynamic building simulation models to simulate the hourly load profiles of heat demand, cooling demand and electricity demand. Figure 1-3 shows that actual energy consumption within buildings naturally differs from calculations carried out by advanced building simulation models, but that the errors tend to increase the more energy efficient the buildings become (Turner & Frankel 2008) (Tommerup et al 2007) (Langseth et al 2011) (Borg 2015).…”

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The impact of Zero Energy Buildings on the Scandinavian energy system

Seljom

Lindberg

Tomasgård

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Energy

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“…They also state that the study shows that high-mass buildings are able to provide a higher quality in terms of "internal environment". Tommerup (2007) presents the results from measurements and discusses how to develop typical single-family houses to meet new energy requirements without compromising on either economy or construction. Tommerup has studied energy-efficient houses built according to the new energy performance requirements in Denmark.…”

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confidence: 99%