Solar Versus Green: The Analysis of a Norwegian Row House

Winther, B.N.; Hestnes, Anne Grete

doi:10.1016/s0038-092x(99)00037-7

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“…Historically, the contribution of embodied energy was considered minimal compared to energy consumption trough the operational phase [33,35,[37][38][39][40][41][42]. However, for low energy houses, this is not the case as the lifetime energy consumption is much lower while the embodied energy is higher due to additional-sometimes pretty sophisticated-construction materials, energy production and recovery systems [30,35,[43][44][45][46][47][48].…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainable Buildings: An Ever Evolving Target

2011

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Environmental considerations have called for new developments in building technologies to bridge the gap between this need for lower impacts on the environment and ever increasing comfort. These developments were generally directed at the reduction of the energy consumption during operations. While this was indeed a mandatory first step, complete environmental life cycle analysis raises new questions. For instance, for a typical low thermal energy consumption building, the embodied energy of construction materials now becomes an important component of the environmental footprint. In addition, the usual practice in life cycle analysis now appears to call for some adaptation-due to variable parameters in time-to be implemented successfully in building analysis. These issues bring new challenges to reach the goal of integrated design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of sustainable buildings.

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Section: Embodied Energy (Construction)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Buildings: An Ever Evolving Target

2011

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“…For example, the case study of 60 residential and non-residential units in nine countries by Sartori and Hestnes (2007) demonstrates the design benefit of low energy buildings in encouraging both a net benefit in total life cycle energy demand and an increase in embodied energy. Similarly, the analysis of Norwegian houses by Winther and Hestnes (1999) and Feist (1996) showed low energy buildings to be a result of specific design criteria, demanding less operating energy and less total energy than those built according to conventional criteria. Levine et al (2007) suggested a simple strategy to reduce heating and cooling loads by isolating the building from the environment by using high levels of insulation, optimising the glazing area and minimising the infiltration of outside air.…”

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Carbon dioxide reduction in the building life cycle: a critical review

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Wong²,

Skitmore³

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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering

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The construction industry is known to be a major contributor to environmental pressures due to its high energy consumption and carbon dioxide generation. The growing amount of carbon dioxide emissions over buildings' life cycles has prompted academics and professionals to initiate various studies relating to this problem. Researchers have been exploring carbon dioxide reduction methods for each phase of the building life cycle – from planning and design, materials production, materials distribution and construction process, maintenance and renovation, deconstruction and disposal, to the material reuse and recycle phase. This paper aims to present the state of the art in carbon dioxide reduction studies relating to the construction industry. Studies of carbon dioxide reduction throughout the building life cycle are reviewed and discussed, including those relating to green building design, innovative low carbon dioxide materials, green construction methods, energy efficiency schemes, life cycle energy analysis, construction waste management, reuse and recycling of materials and the cradle-to-cradle concept. The review provides building practitioners and researchers with a better understanding of carbon dioxide reduction potential and approaches worldwide. Opportunities for carbon dioxide reduction can thereby be maximised over the building life cycle by creating environmentally benign designs and using low carbon dioxide materials.

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“…With regards to this issue, a number of studies have estimated the energy content of the measures that lead to improved energy efficiency, mainly for domestic uses (Kaufmann and Azary-Lee, 1990;Feist, 1996;Winther and Hestnes, 1999;Casals, 2006;Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 2007;Sartori and Hestnes, 2007;Chitnis et al, 2013;Cellura et al, 2013). This approach to the indirect rebound effect is thus specific for each energy service.…”

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Economic structure and energy savings from energy efficiency in households

Vivanco

Ventosa

2017

Ecological Economics

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When an energy efficiency improvement occurs at the household level, several mechanisms, grouped under the name of the rebound effect, increase the available income and consumption, increasing the total energy consumption of the economic structure. The present research analyses the links between energy efficiency improvements in households, consumption, and the economic structure in an input-output framework. We examine, from an empirical perspective, the relationship between energy efficiency improvements and the economic structure, and between the direct and the indirect rebound effect. The limits of the input-output methodology in assessing the direct and indirect rebound effect have been empirically tested with respect to efficiency improvements of electricity uses in households in Catalonia.

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Solar Versus Green: The Analysis of a Norwegian Row House

Cited by 91 publications

References 2 publications

Sustainable Buildings: An Ever Evolving Target

Sustainable Buildings: An Ever Evolving Target

Carbon dioxide reduction in the building life cycle: a critical review

Economic structure and energy savings from energy efficiency in households

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