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Matteo Dongellini, Christian Natale, Claudia Naldi, Eugenia Rossi di Schio, Paolo Valdiserri and Gian Luca Morini
An energy and environmental performance analysis of air-source and ground-source heat pump systems able to operate with traditional (R-410A) and alternative low-GWP (R-454B) refrigerants is conducted. The case study is composed of an existing residential...
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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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Nicole Di Santo, Leidy Guante Henriquez, Giovanni Dotelli and Marco Imperadori
Due to our increasing dependence on resources and energy, climate change is among the most tangible issues we are facing today. The construction industry has been identified as a key sector to intervene in, but mitigation strategies must focus on more th...
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Stina Saarinen, Hüseyin Emre Ilgin, Markku Karjalainen and Teemu Hirvilammi
This article provides a comprehensive understanding of small house practices, including the perspective of Finnish architectural experts, by conducting semi-structured in-depth interviews and proposing an individually designed house case study with a par...
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Christine Levesque and Pat E. Rasmussen
Mercury (Hg) is one of the top ten chemicals of concern for public health, according to the World Health Organization. This study investigates Hg concentrations in house dust collected from urban single family homes, to better understand typical indoor r...
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Hicham Mharzi Alaoui, Hassan Radoine, Jérôme Chenal, Hassan Yakubu and Salwa Bajja
With the rapid urbanization occurring across African cities, the emergence of a middle class is exerting its influence on the urban form and structure. Matching their social status and drawing on global influences, the housing characteristics of this cla...
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Bojana Petrovic, Xingxing Zhang, Ola Eriksson and Marita Wallhagen
The objective of this paper was to explore long-term costs for a single-family house in Sweden during its entire lifetime. In order to estimate the total costs, considering construction, replacement, operation, and end-of-life costs over the long term, t...
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Amir Vadiee, Ambrose Dodoo and Elaheh Jalilzadehazhari
Floor heating and radiators are two of the most common types of hydronic heating systems used for space heating in single-family houses in cold climate regions. Notwithstanding, there are few comparative studies on indoor temperature distribution and sys...
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Oliver Style,Vicenç Fulcarà,Bega Clavero
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The implementation of a self-consumption photovoltaic installation in a single-family house with Passivhaus Classic certification is pre-sented. In this case the surpluses of photovoltaic production are diverted to an electrical resistance in the Sanitar...
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Advanced control of heat pumps with thermal storage and photovoltaics has recently been promoted as a promising solution to help decarbonise the residential sector. Heat pumps and thermal storage offer a valuable flexibilisation mean to integrate stochas...
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