Thermal Performance Assessment of Flexible Modular Housing Units for Energy Independence Following Disasters

Park, Beungyong; Cho, Jinkyun; Jeong, Yongdae

doi:10.3390/su11205561

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“…In addition to the significant reduction in embodied carbon, the thermal performance of integrated insulation materials in MC is superior to traditionally built structures [66][67][68][69]. Li et al [66] highlighted that in addition to improving the design efficiency and quality of construction, MC also responds to a serious shortcoming of traditional systems, i.e., occupants' comfort, energy savings needs, and design flexibility throughout the building lifecycle.…”

Section: Reducing Ghg Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change Mitigation through Modular Construction

Sajid,

Ullah,

Qayyum

et al. 2024

Smart Cities

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Modular construction (MC) is a promising concept with the potential to revolutionize the construction industry (CI). The sustainability aspects of MC, among its other encouraging facets, have garnered escalated interest and acclaim among the research community, especially in the context of climate change (CC) mitigation efforts. Despite numerous scholarly studies contributing to the understanding of MC, a holistic review of the prevailing literature that systematically documents the impact of utilizing MC on CC mitigation remains scarce. The study conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) of the pertinent literature retrieved from the Scopus repository to explore the relationship between MC and CC mitigation. Employing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol, the SLR was conducted on 31 shortlisted articles published between 2010 and 2023. The findings of the study reveal that MC can mitigate the climate crisis by reducing GHG emissions, curtailing resource intensiveness by enabling a circular economy (CE), fomenting energy efficiency, and fostering resourceful land use and management in the CI. A conceptual framework based on the findings of the previous literature is proposed in this study, which outlines several strategies for CC mitigation that can be implemented by the adoption of MC in the CI. The current study is a humble effort to review various offerings of MC to help mitigate CC in the era of striving for global sustainability. For industry practitioners and policymakers, this study highlights the viability of leveraging MC for CC mitigation, aiming to inspire better decision making for sustainable development in the CI. Similarly, for researchers, it presents MC as a potential tool for CC mitigation that can be further explored in terms of its associated factors, and focused frameworks can be developed.

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Section: Reducing Ghg Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change Mitigation through Modular Construction

Sajid,

Ullah,

Qayyum

et al. 2024

Smart Cities

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“…To meet the energy efficiency requirements [42] for the design of the building envelope, technological solutions may be proposed based on the use of technical elements made with wall and floor stratigraphies using concrete structural panels, pre-accoupled with rock wool insulation panels [43,44], or based on the use of container modules [45,46], suitably insulated by the application of a layer of insulating paint. A building envelope, regardless of the construction technique used to make it, must ensure internal environmental comfort and, with few changes, must be able to be used in different climatic situations.…”

Section: Energy Efficiency For Temporary Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the use of the container, goods can be moved without having to handle them individually; the advantages are mainly the reduction in the damages of the cargo and more efficient logistic operations, with the result of a greater speed of boarding and disembarkation, which translates into an increase in the worked volumes, and a drastic reduction in handling costs. To meet the energy efficiency requirements [42] for the design of the building envelope, technological solutions may be proposed based on the use of technical elements made with wall and floor stratigraphies using concrete structural panels, pre-accoupled with rock wool insulation panels [43,44], or based on the use of container modules [45,46], suitably insulated by the application of a layer of insulating paint. A building envelope, regardless of the construction technique used to make it, must ensure internal environmental comfort and, with few changes, must be able to be used in different climatic situations.…”

Section: Transportabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Design of Temporary Buildings in Emergency Situations

Paparella

Caini

2022

Sustainability

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Unforeseen circumstances that occur anywhere in the world following natural disasters, humanitarian and health emergencies, armed conflicts, or in the presence of migratory flows, require adequate and immediate responses. This work aims to analyze the project requirements useful to realizing modular systems for residential, multifunctional, and hospital intended use, which, even if temporary, can ensure a high-performance standard in terms of comfort and energy efficiency, and at the same time guarantee the possibility of use in the widest possible range and in rapid execution times. The considered requirements have been those of settlement in the territory, energy efficiency, transportability, and re-usability. Temporary modular systems put in place with the abovementioned requirements are the basis of the design proposal; to realize this, they are made with dry technology to be reusable and energy-efficient. Furthermore, this enables the reduction of the minimum modules’ production and times of execution in applying both requirements of standardization and modular coordination. All these requirements also add to the ones relating to energy efficiency, transportability, and reusability, which are the pillars of the project for the achievement of performance above all in terms of standards and comfort levels as it is possible to find in the sustainable building of the living period.

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“…In addition to the impact of the material and construction, the impact during operation must be considered as these building types also need energy and resources in use. Assessments in this respect have been published regarding disaster building types [10]. However, there is still a need to comprehensively assess these temporary structures to provide factual decision support for urban development scenarios related to design type, site selection and cost [11].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Temporary housing environments in urban areas – challenges and key findings for implementation

Österreicher,

Fischer,

Huber-Humer

2024

MATEC Web Conf.

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Cities are increasingly confronted with the need to provide shortterm and cost-efficient housing as several factors, such as natural disasters, migration due to political or climatic circumstances or other unpredictable events can result in a sudden and at times temporary need for additional housing. Providing affordable, and flexible but at the same time sustainable and re-useable housing concepts that are easy to construct and quickly to implement are thus requirements that cities must face. Currently there is limited research available in this field, as disaster architecture and temporary housing have not yet been widely researched in an interdisciplinary manner. The project “Urban pop-up housing environments and their potential as local innovation systems” has aimed at addressing this research gap by investigating in a highly interdisciplinary approach how and under which circumstances temporary housing solutions could be implemented under challenging framework conditions. The aim of the project was to systematically investigate and evaluate existing temporary housing options, and to develop and assess innovative and sustainable models for pop-up living systems in urban environments regarding resource uptake as well as social aspects, which may serve as incubators for urban innovation. From a technical perspective the models are focused on integrating aspects related to architecture, energy technologies, resources and materials, water as well as landscape design. Starting with a data pool of international examples, a classification and systematization of relevant typologies has been carried out in combination with user profiles for the different housing situations. On this basis, potential urban areas have been identified for selected scenarios and finally six theoretical temporary housing models have been created and subsequently assessed and analyzed in detail. The purpose of this paper is to present the key findings related to the scenarios and models, that have been developed within this basic research project and the methodologies that have been applied to assess them. The challenges of the scenarios and overall project results are summarized to provide an outline for potential implementation and future pilot projects.

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Thermal Performance Assessment of Flexible Modular Housing Units for Energy Independence Following Disasters

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Climate Change Mitigation through Modular Construction

Climate Change Mitigation through Modular Construction

Sustainable Design of Temporary Buildings in Emergency Situations

Temporary housing environments in urban areas – challenges and key findings for implementation

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