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Maryam Safavi and Maryam Khoshbakht
Utilizing integrated solar systems and renewable energy sources has the potential to not only decrease the CO2 emissions of buildings but also provide access to more affordable energy alternatives compared to fossil fuels, especially considering the rece...
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Jingchun Shen, Yang Chen and Karthik Hejamadi Rajagopal
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed global efforts toward transitioning to a sustainable society, driving rapid innovation in building technologies, working practices, building design, and whole life cycle environmental impact consideration. In this purs...
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Alejandro Moreno-Rangel, Tim Sharpe, Gráinne McGill and Filbert Musau
The ongoing climate change and policies around it are changing how we design and build homes to meet national carbon emission targets. Some countries such as Scotland are adopting higher-energy-efficient buildings as minimum requirements in the building ...
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Georgios Chantzis, Effrosyni Giama and Agis M. Papadopoulos
The EU energy and climate policy has set quantitative goals for decarbonization based on the energy efficiency and the evolution of energy systems. The utilization of demand side flexibility can help towards this direction and achieve the target of highe...
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Aleksy Kwilinski, Oleksii Lyulyov and Tetyana Pimonenko
Attaining sustainable development goals is a complex process that involves a range of economic, social, and environmental factors. It requires investments in infrastructure, technology, and human capital. In this case, green finance is conducive to chann...
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Paolo Zangheri, Delia D?Agostino, Roberto Armani and Paolo Bertoldi
The building sector has a central role in achieving the European goals of a zero-emission and fully decarbonized stock by 2050. Among the provisions of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast, the implementation of the cost-optimal me...
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Yaolin Lin, Xingping Yuan, Wei Yang, Xiaoli Hao and Chunqing Li
Healthy buildings are a deep-level development of green buildings, which can effectively help relieve stress and improve occupants? physical and mental health. In addition, they are is likely to play an important role in preventing the spread of respirat...
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Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri, Lydia Papadaki, Tatiana Pliakou and Eleni Toli
The proactive sustainable management of scarce water across vulnerable agricultural areas of South Europe is a timely issue of major importance, especially under the recent challenges affecting complex water systems. The Basin District of Thessaly, Greec...
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Yingjie Chen, Yunfeng Wu, Ning Chen, Chaofeng Kang, Jiabin Du and Cheng Luo
Compared to general public and residential buildings, large public buildings are often difficult to construct and have a long construction period, creating greater construction energy consumption and carbon emissions on the one hand, while generating a l...
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Jessica Wright, Robert Ackley, Sucharita Gopal and Nathan Phillips
The BosWash corridor is a megalopolis, or large urbanized region composed of interconnected transportation, infrastructure, physiography, and sociopolitical systems. Previous work has not considered the BosWash corridor as an integrated, holistic ecosyst...
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