Future energy demand for public buildings in the context of climate change for Burkina Faso

Energy demand for the heating and cooling of residential houses in Finland in a changing climate

“…The future air temperature data set is built on 3-hourly observations, without a need 3 to assume any predefined diurnal temperature behaviour. In addition, the model-projected 4 changes in the variability of daily mean temperatures are here taken into account. Since the 5 building energy simulation tool needs data of the direct and diffuse solar radiation rather than 6 of cloud cover, measurements of these two radiation components are directly utilized.…”

“…Wind speed and air humidity are of some importance as well 1 [1]. 2 3 In Finland, more than 80 % of the total energy consumption in households is spent on heating, 4 the three most common energy sources for that purpose being district heating, wood and 5 electricity [23]. In a previous study, the heating energy need in Finland was expected to 6 decrease by 10-14 % from 1961-1990 to 2021-2050 [9].…”

A review on sustainable construction management strategies for monitoring, diagnosing, and retrofitting the building’s dynamic energy performance: Focused on the operation and maintenance phase

“…The previous studies were arranged in a chronologically descending order in the presentation of the literature review on the energy-saving techniques for buildings. Table 9 shows a summary of the previous studies on the passive design techniques [138][139][140][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148], and Table 10 shows a summary of the previous studies on the active design techniques [149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160]. Finally, Table 11 shows a summary of the previous studies on the combination of the passive and active design techniques [161][162][163][164][165][166][167].…”

“…The passive design techniques can be divided into four categories: (i) thermal insulation; (ii) thermal mass; (iii) windows/glazing/daylighting/shading; and (iv) reflective/green roof [138][139][140][141][142][143][144][145][146][147][148].…”

Building envelope design for climate change mitigation: a case study of hotels in Greece

“…The literature reveals (Wan et al, 2011;Wan et al, 2012;Xu et al, 2012;Ouedraogo et al, 2012;Giannakidis et al, 2011;Kolokotroni et al, 2012) that due to the climate change the cooling load of buildings is expected to rise and the heating load to decline in areas with hot summer periods. Taking into consideration that currently cooling is provided mainly by electricity, there will be a huge increase of the fuel's demand.…”