Technological options and strategies towards zero energy buildings contributing to climate change mitigation: A systematic review

Cabeza, Luisa F.; Chàfer, Marta

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110009

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“…This means reducing both operational energy and reducing embodied energy, i.e., the energy needed for material production and construction of the building. To increase the operational energy efficiency, the designer can focus on optimizing the building geometry and orientation, natural lighting and ventilation, passive heating and cooling, and minimize the energy loss through the envelope by proper insulation [86][87][88][89]. Furthermore, the designer can include renewable energy sources e.g., solar, geothermal, and biomass [88].…”

Section: Energy-efficient Designmentioning

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How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

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The building sector is responsible for extensive resource consumption and waste generation, resulting in high pressure on the environment. A way to potentially mitigate this is by including environmental considerations during building design through the concept known as eco-design. Despite the multiple available approaches of eco-design, the latter is not easily achieved in the building sector. The objective of this paper is to identify and discuss what barriers are currently hindering the implementation of eco-design in the building sector and by which measures building designers can include environmental considerations in their design process. Through a systematic literature review, several barriers to implementation were identified, the main ones being lack of suitable legislation, lack of knowledge amongst building designers, and lack of suitable tools for designers to use. Furthermore, two specific tools were identified that allow the inclusion of environmental consideration in building design, along with nine design strategies providing qualitative guidance on how to potentially minimize energy and material consumption, as well as waste generation. This paper contributes a holistic overview of the major barriers to and existing tools and method for the eco-design of buildings, and provides guidance for both future research and practice.

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Section: Energy-efficient Designmentioning

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How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

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“…Thus, this study suggests the potential of applying natural ventilation through adaptive approaches to reduce the FP risk in social dwellings. Furthermore, this aspect could ensure a less climatic vulnerability of these dwellings with future climatic variations [75] because of the expected overheating of buildings in southern Europe [76] . For this purpose, the FP risk was analysed in many family units with various incomes who live in a building of 51 social dwellings in Cadiz (Spain).…”

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Analysing natural ventilation to reduce the cooling energy consumption and the fuel poverty of social dwellings in coastal zones

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“…Currently, the building consumes excessive energy due to heating and cooling load demand 1 . Temperature swing into a building interior is the root cause of the discomfort.…”

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Emplacement of screen-printed graphene oxide coating for building thermal comfort discernment

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This study demonstrates the development of flexible graphene oxide coatings (GOCs) by the screen-printed technique and further its implementation as a thermal absorber for buildings’ thermal comfort purpose. The basic concept consists the integration of the GOC as a flat absorber on the top of a low iron glass or aluminium-based substrate (5 × 5 cm2) connecting through a phase change material channel in contact with direct sun exposure. The function of GOC as an outdoor cover of the prototype chamber is to maintain the high indoor temperature while the outdoor temperature is low. Using the GOC, it has been observed that the indoor temperature (at the substrate) of the prototype chamber always remains higher as compared to the outdoor temperature (at the GOC) as measured under 1 SUN 1.5 AM condition. The temperature difference between outdoor and indoor exterior surface significantly increases during the light exposure time, whereas the difference drastically approaches to zero during the cooling period. The variation of different crucial environmental factors such as high temperature, moisture, flexibility and water resistivity has been investigated on the developed GOCs to understand the stability of the coating further.

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Technological options and strategies towards zero energy buildings contributing to climate change mitigation: A systematic review

Cited by 142 publications

References 213 publications

How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

Analysing natural ventilation to reduce the cooling energy consumption and the fuel poverty of social dwellings in coastal zones

Emplacement of screen-printed graphene oxide coating for building thermal comfort discernment

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