A methodology for the energy performance classification of residential building stock on an urban scale

Dall’O’, Giuliano; Galante, Annalisa; Torri, Marco Danilo Claudio

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.01.034

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“…Improving these buildings with a low energy performance is hence an urgent and important challenge. Many authors have emphasized the importance of building renovation in energy savings and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions [6][7][8][9].…”

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Sustainability assessment of energy saving measures: A multi-criteria approach for residential buildings retrofitting—A case study of the Spanish housing stock

Pombo

Allacker

Rivela

et al. 2016

Energy and Buildings

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Please cite this article as: O. Pombo, K. Allacker, B. Rivela, J. Neila, Sustainability assessment of energy saving measures: a multi-criteria approach for residential buildings retrofittingndashA case study of the Spanish housing stock, Energy and Buildings (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.enbuild.2016.01.019 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Page 1 of 30A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t The building sector is well known to be one of the key energy consumers worldwide. The renovation of existing buildings provides excellent opportunities for an effective reduction of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions but it is essential to identify the optimal strategies. In this paper a multi-criteria methodology is proposed for the comparative analysis of retrofitting solutions. A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t far from being optimal solutions. The required additional investment, which is needed to obtain an overall performance improvement of the envelope compared with the common practice to date, is relatively low (8%) considering the obtained life cycle environmental and financial savings (43% and 45% respectively).

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Sustainability assessment of energy saving measures: A multi-criteria approach for residential buildings retrofitting—A case study of the Spanish housing stock

Pombo

Allacker

Rivela

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Energy and Buildings

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“…This inevitably led to the use of macroeconomic data, such as interregional input-output tables and statistical yearbooks, among other sources. The metabolic units at various levels were usually treated as black boxes or grey boxes, which can be measured in terms of their input and output without (Kleijn et al, 2000) S w e d e n 1 9 5 0 -2100 PVC stock Substance flow analysis (Tanikawa et al, 2002) Kitakyushu (Japan) 1970(Japan) , 1995(Japan) , 2020 Roadway and building MFA with GIS (Muller, 2006) Netherlands 1900-2100 Dwelling stock A stock dynamics model based on MFA (Schiller, 2007) Germany Road and utility infrastructures Material flow model (Kovanda et al, 2007) C z e c h R e p u b l i c 2 0 0 0 -2002 Infrastructures, buildings, durables Economy-wide material flow accounting and analysis (Yamaguchi et al, 2007) Osaka (Japan) 2007 Urban building, infrastructure A bottom-up model (Bergsdal et al, 2007) Norway 1900-2100 Dwelling stock Dynamic material flow analysis (Lichtensteiger and Baccini, 2008) Switzerland 1900-2000 Buildings stock MFA combined with ark-house method (Tanikawa et al, 2009) J a p a n 1 9 7 5 -2004 Urban subsurface stock Statistical methods integrated with GIS database Japan Copper, steel, aluminum in urban By using DMSP/OLS nocturnal images (Daigo et al, 2009 Hu et al, 2010) Beijing (China) 1949(China) -2008 Urban residential buildings Material and energy flow analysis (Diamond et al, 2010) Toronto (Canada) 2010 PCB stock PCB inventory (Dall'O' et al, 2012) Lombardy (Italy), Residential building stock on an urban scale A mixed method combined top-down with bottom-up (Han and Xiang, 2012) C h i n a 1 9 7 8 -2008…”

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An integrated material metabolism model for stocks of urban road system in Beijing, China

Guo

Zhang

et al. 2014

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Many studies were carried out in order to evaluate the energy performance of buildings; some of them were based on statistical data provided by European reports or by municipalities [18][19][20][21], others evaluated the efficiency of the European methodology by using a survey questionnaire carried out in all European countries [22,23]. Other interesting works evaluated the energy performance of buildings based on a database in which different parameters were included [22][23][24][25][26].…”

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Energy Performance Database of Building Heritage in the Region of Umbria, Central Italy

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Abstract:Household energy consumption has been increasing in the last decades; the residential sector is responsible for about 40% of the total final energy use in Europe. Energy efficiency measures can both reduce energy needs of buildings and energy-related CO2 emissions. For this reason, in recent years, the European Union has been making efforts to enhance energy saving in buildings by introducing various policies and strategies; in this context, a common methodology was developed to assess and to certify energy performance of buildings. The positive effects obtained by energy efficiency measures need to be verified, but measuring and monitoring building energy performance is time consuming and financially demanding. Alternatively, energy efficiency can also be evaluated by specific indicators based on energy consumption. In this work, a methodology to investigate the level of energy efficiency reached in the Umbria Region (Central Italy) is described, based on data collected by energy certificates. In fact, energy certificates, which are the outcomes of simulation models, represent a useful and available tool to collect data related to the energy use of dwellings. A database of building energy performance was developed, in which about 6500 energy certificates of residential buildings supplied by Umbria region were inserted. On the basis of this data collection, average energy and CO2 indicators related to the building heritage in Umbria were estimated and compared to national and international indicators derived from official sources. Results showed that the adopted methodology in this work can be an alternative method for the evaluation of energy indicators; in fact, the ones OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 8 7262 calculated considering simulation data were similar to the ones reported in national and international sources. This allowed to validate the adopted methodology and the efficiency of European policies.

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A methodology for the energy performance classification of residential building stock on an urban scale

Cited by 198 publications

References 9 publications

Sustainability assessment of energy saving measures: A multi-criteria approach for residential buildings retrofitting—A case study of the Spanish housing stock

Sustainability assessment of energy saving measures: A multi-criteria approach for residential buildings retrofitting—A case study of the Spanish housing stock

An integrated material metabolism model for stocks of urban road system in Beijing, China

Energy Performance Database of Building Heritage in the Region of Umbria, Central Italy

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