Energy performance indoor environmental quality retrofit — a European diagnosis and decision making method for building refurbishment

Jaggs, Michael; Palmer, J E G

doi:10.1016/s0378-7788(99)00023-7

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“…Many energy retrofit programs are now underway, often implemented by energy utilities. June 18, 2012 P. 2 A variety of protocols, tools, and standards are available from energy utilities and state, federal and private energy organizations as well as from research projects to guide the selection and implementation of energy retrofits for homes [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Additionally, more sophisticated and time consuming algorithm-based approaches to identify retrofit strategies exist [11,12].…”

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Protocol for maximizing energy savings and indoor environmental quality improvements when retrofitting apartments

Noris¹,

Delp²,

Vermeer³

et al. 2013

Energy and Buildings

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The current focus on building energy retrofit provides an opportunity to simultaneously improve indoor environmental quality (IEQ). Toward this end, we developed a protocol for selecting packages of retrofits that both save energy and improve IEQ in apartments. The protocol specifies the methodology for selecting retrofits from a candidate list while addressing expected energy savings, IEQ impacts, and costs in an integrated manner.Interviews, inspections and measurements are specified to collect the needed input information. The protocol was applied to 17 apartments in three buildings in two different climates within California. Diagnostic measurements and surveys conducted before and after retrofit implementation indicate enhanced apartment performance.

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“…Many energy retrofit measures will influence indoor environmental quality (IEQ), including thermal comfort conditions, acoustic conditions, and levels of indoor air pollutants that affect health [6,7,8,[15][16][17]. Changes in IEQ can be positive or negative, and some retrofits will not impact IEQ.…”

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Protocol for maximizing energy savings and indoor environmental quality improvements when retrofitting apartments

Noris¹,

Delp²,

Vermeer³

et al. 2013

Energy and Buildings

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“…Among the common terms are alteration, adaptation, renovation, rehabilitation, refurbishment, retrofitting, restoration, reconstruction, retro-commissioning, modernization, transformation, tune-up, see for example [21,[26][27][28][29]. The use of a diverse terminology is due to the varied type and scale of buildings, the large range of actions, and the variety of reasons and motivations for making an intervention, e.g., preservation, technical, functional or social obsolescence [30,31].…”

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“…Some authors use the term renovation to indicate a minimum of interventions [30] while others find the term to indicate more consistent upgrading [34]. Some authors use the term retrofit to emphasize the act of improving a building to a higher standard [28,35], for example in respect to objectives for sustainable building [19].…”

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Unveiling the Process of Sustainable Renovation

Thuvander

Femenías

Mjörnell³

et al. 2012

Sustainability

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Renovation processes are complex and there is a risk of underestimating architectural, cultural, and social values in favor of exterior and interior upgrading, energy efficiency and financing. A synthesized, systematic process is needed for making decisions about renovation measures. The aim of this paper is to survey decision-making procedures aimed for sustainable renovation. We inventory existing tools and methodologies based on (a) a literature review and (b) results from a workshop with participants from the Swedish buildings sector, academia, and other stakeholders. Our results show that there are many tools available but few seem to have reached acceptance in renovation. None of the more established methods and tools addresses a complexity that balances material and immaterial values and they are often too specific. There is a need for simplified tools, especially for evaluating more intangible, experienced values. Instead of one comprehensive tool preferably a methodology for renovation should be developed with references to different tools. In the building sector, renovation should be considered a service-minded process rather than a merely technical one as often is the case in new construction. There is a need to clarify the process and the meaning of the terms, and that need is even more urgent when it comes to the values that are more difficult to define.

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“…The criteria mainly focus on the energy efficiency, the capital cost and other comfort factors, such as the usable space for the occupants in the building [3], the air quality and the thermal comfort [4]. Some MC-based approaches for the evaluation of retrofitting projects can be found from [5,6,7,8]. During the design phase of a retrofitting project, MC are also adopted.…”

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A multi-objective optimization model for the life-cycle cost analysis and retrofitting planning of buildings

Wang

Xia

Zhang

2014

Energy and Buildings

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The building sector contributes a large proportion of the world's total final energy consumption. As a result, considerable attention has been paid to energy efficiency in the building sector. At the current stage, building retrofitting is the most feasible and cost-effective method to improve building energy efficiency. This paper presents a multi-objective optimization model for life-cycle cost analysis and retrofitting planning of buildings. A Net Present Value (NPV) based economic analysis taking life-cycle cost into account is introduced to formulate the objective functions. In addition, a combination of multiple alternative measures for each retrofitting intervention is considered in determining the optimal solution. The presented model aims at maximizing both energy savings and economic benefits during a selected time frame. It allows decision makers to make best use of the available budget. A Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm is proposed to solve this optimization problem. The result of the case study illustrates the effectiveness of the multi-objective optimization model to support the planning of energy-efficient and cost-effective building retrofitting projects.

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Energy performance indoor environmental quality retrofit — a European diagnosis and decision making method for building refurbishment

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Protocol for maximizing energy savings and indoor environmental quality improvements when retrofitting apartments

Protocol for maximizing energy savings and indoor environmental quality improvements when retrofitting apartments

Unveiling the Process of Sustainable Renovation

A multi-objective optimization model for the life-cycle cost analysis and retrofitting planning of buildings

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