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Christopher Tsang, James Parker and David Glew
A substantial number of dwellings in the UK have poor building fabric, leading to higher carbon emissions, fuel expenses, and the risk of cold homes. To tackle these challenges, domestic energy efficiency policies are being implemented. One effective app...
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Ancu?a Maria Magurean and Horia Alexandru Petran
The purpose of this study was to analyze the indoor air quality, in particular, the CO2 level, in a real environment, within 16 apartments located in the municipality of Zalau, Romania, in five recently renovated multifamily buildings in which families l...
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Najeeba Kutty, Dua Barakat and Maatouk Khoukhi
Cities are paying more attention to building energy use and carbon footprint for attaining sustainability. Within this building sector, there is a growing attention toward development and adoption of energy efficient retrofit strategies. Plagued by the l...
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Zhenjun Ma, Muhammad Bilal Awan, Menglong Lu, Shengteng Li, Muhammad Shahbaz Aziz, Xinlei Zhou, Han Du, Xinyi Sha and Yixuan Li
The building sector accounts for a significant proportion of global energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions. It is important to explore technological advances to curtail building energy usage to support the transition to a sustainable energy future. Th...
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Youcef Boussaa, Ambrose Dodoo, Truong Nguyen and Katarina Rupar-Gadd
A major challenge in building energy renovation is to cost effectively achieve notable energy savings. This paper investigates cost-effective passive energy-efficiency measures for thermal envelope retrofit of a typical Swedish multi-apartment building f...
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Malgorzata Fedorczak-Cisak, Mark Bomberg, David W. Yarbrough, Lowell E. Lingo and Anna Romanska-Zapala
Protests during the 2021 Climate Conference in Glasgow exemplified our dilemma. The establishment perpetuates old thinking, while young people demand a new approach to mitigate the impact of climate change. The authors agree with the young people, and as...
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Haonan Zhang, Haibo Feng, Kasun Hewage and Mehrdad Arashpour
Assessing the energy performance of existing residential buildings (ERB) has been identified as key to improving building energy efficiency and reducing associated greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. However, identifying optimal retrofit packages require...
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Francesco Asdrubali, Daniela Venanzi, Luca Evangelisti, Claudia Guattari, Gianluca Grazieschi, Paolo Matteucci and Marta Roncone
The majority of Italian schools (70%) were built in the absence of any legislation related to energy efficiency, and therefore have very low energy performance due to aging or poor quality of construction. An energy retrofit of this building stock is nee...
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Janne Hirvonen, Juha Jokisalo, Paula Sankelo, Tuomo Niemelä and Risto Kosonen
Energy retrofitting of buildings shows great potential in reducing CO2 emissions. However, most retrofitting studies only focus on a single building type. This paper shows the relative potential in six Finnish building types, to identify possible focus a...
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Maria Patricia Fabian, Sharon Kitman Lee, Lindsay Jean Underhill, Kimberly Vermeer, Gary Adamkiewicz and Jonathan Ian Levy
Secondhand exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in multifamily housing remains a health concern despite strong recommendations to implement non-smoking policies. Multiple studies have documented exposure to ETS in non-smoking units located in bu...
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