Energy mapping of existing building stock in Spain

Gangolells, Marta; Casals, Miquel; Forcada, Núria; Macarulla, Marcel; Cuerva, Eva

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.05.105

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“…Due to the low replacement rate of existing buildings -about 1-3% per year in EU countries [6] -the majority of buildings that will exist in 2050 is already built, with many of them having a low level of energy performance [7]. In this context, the retrofit of existing buildings offers significant opportunities for reducing energy consumption and GHG emissions [8].…”

Section: European and Spanish Building Stockmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It therefore seems clear that the residential building stock in EU-27 offers high potential for energy efficiency gains [11,12]. This large potential energy saving is particularly relevant to the Spanish context [7], where most residential buildings were constructed before 2001, when thermal regulations were modest [13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

Section: European and Spanish Building Stockmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using this software allows us to compare our results to the EPC database of real buildings [7], in order to test the accuracy of the results at the territorial level, which is our target scale. Therefore, as Spain's EPC registry becomes more complete [19], our database may be updated without conflicts.…”

Section: A C C E P T E Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Application of the cost-optimal methodology to urban renewal projects at the territorial scale based on statistical data—A case study in Spain

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As tomorrow's cities are already largely built, many strategies stress the importance of urban renewal processes to address current energy issues. This paper focuses on the Spanish residential building stock built until 2001, which has a low level of energy performance.Considering the current economic crisis, the future lies in renovating the built environment, which holds a significant energy-saving potential. This potential is here quantified by applying the cost-optimal methodology, initially proposed by the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, and which calculates costoptimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements at the building and component scale.The originality of our study lies in the application of this methodology at the territorial scale, comparing different retrofitting scenarios by scaling-up building-scale results through an archetypal approach. We also describe an Excel-based tool allowing two types of studies: (i) at the building scale, for one archetype in a particular climatic zone; (ii) at the territorial scale, to have an overview of all building archetypes and climatic zones simultaneously. Results include economic aspects, energy consumption and savings and associated emissions.The outcome can help construction-sector firms adapt their business plan, while also providing stakeholders with decision-support to promote a sustainable renewal of the building stock.

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Section: European and Spanish Building Stockmentioning

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Section: European and Spanish Building Stockmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Application of the cost-optimal methodology to urban renewal projects at the territorial scale based on statistical data—A case study in Spain

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“…The label is based on the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions per square meter generated by the building in one year. It is expressed as a letter ranging from A to G [13,14].…”

Section: Energy Performance Assessmentmentioning

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Influence of the different Spanish climatic conditions in energy efficiency of existing dwellings

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“…As a consequence, the cornerstone of the European energy policy has an explicit orientation to the conservation and rational use of energy in buildings [5]. As buildings tend to have long lifespans and there is currently low turnover in the sector, new building codes are not expected to have a significant impact on the building stock as a whole in the short-and medium-term [6]. Thus, to maximize the energy saving potential of the building sector, energy efficient initiatives must be focused on the existing building stock.…”

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A serious game enhancing social tenants' behavioral change towards energy efficiency

Casals

Gangolells

Macarulla

et al. 2017

2017 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS)

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A serious game enhancing social tenantsâ€™ behavioral change ... © CISTER Research Center AbstractThe energy consumption of the current building stock represents about 40% of the total final energy consumption in Europe. New gamification techniques may play a significant role in helping users adopt new and more energy efficient behaviours. This paper presents the advances achieved within the context of the EU-funded project EnerGAware -Energy Game for Awareness of energy efficiency in social housing communities. The main objective of the project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon2020 programme, is to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions in a sample of European social housing by changing the energy efficiency behaviour of the social tenants through the implementation of a serious game linked to the real energy use of the participants 19 homes 978-1-5090-5873-0/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE

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Energy mapping of existing building stock in Spain

Cited by 109 publications

References 13 publications

Application of the cost-optimal methodology to urban renewal projects at the territorial scale based on statistical data—A case study in Spain

Application of the cost-optimal methodology to urban renewal projects at the territorial scale based on statistical data—A case study in Spain

Influence of the different Spanish climatic conditions in energy efficiency of existing dwellings

A serious game enhancing social tenants' behavioral change towards energy efficiency

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