Advanced Innovative Solutions for Final Design in Terms of Energy Sustainability of Nearly/Net Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB)

Mazzeo, Domenico; Oliveti, Giuseppe

doi:10.3390/su122410394

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“…Harkouss et al [50] highlighted that the design team must identify equipment and technologies with high energy efficiency in the market that suits the project's purpose, budget, and building envelope, while Aksamija [49] argued that the design team needs to select the best combination of the carefully chosen equipment and technologies to be incorporated into project design to achieve energy efficiency. Mazzeo and Oliveti [51] highlighted that, to ensure maximum benefit of the designed equipment and technologies, designers need to run a building assessment through an energy simulation to model building energy with various design variables to predict building energy performance. In support of this, Mavrigiannaki et al [52] specified that this assessment helps identify which energy-saving measurements allow the project to achieve net-zero energy, specify which project areas have high energy consumption, and develop strategies to reduce them during the design stage.…”

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Commitment Indicators for Tracking Sustainable Design Decisions in Construction Projects

2022

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The construction industry is considered one of the largest contributors to climate change through its consumption of natural resources and generation of greenhouse gases. Much of this can be attributed to inadequate decision making and follow-up within construction companies. To mitigate this problem, considerable research on Sustainable Development (SD) reports on decision support systems have been developed in order to make sound decisions with respect to the environment. Nonetheless, and despite the availability of such tools, these systems fail to track the commitment to SD decisions and goals during the different phases of construction projects in general and the design phase in particular. As such, this study identified three standard SD indicators: waste reduction, energy consumption, and carbon emissions as the main contributors, and developed the framework to track the project stakeholders’ commitment to the relevant SD indicators during the project design phase. The developed framework was validated via an expert panel and used to create a Sustainable Development Commitment Tracking Tool (SDCTT-D). The SDCTT-D tool was also applied in an infrastructure project case study. The results of this study gauged the usability of the developed tool and corroborated the research premise.

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Commitment Indicators for Tracking Sustainable Design Decisions in Construction Projects

2022

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“…e results were compared with the Siegel method showing a payback period of five years with cost benefits. An overview of the innovative technological solutions for enhancing the energy performance of a building for energy consumption reduction has been presented in [19]. e authors have given various methods to realize zero energy buildings that could be incorporated into the design stage of a building itself and improve the efficacy of the building energy.…”

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Energy Audit of a Residential Building to Reduce Energy Cost and Carbon Footprint for Sustainable Development with Renewable Energy Sources

Darshan

Girdhar

Bhojwani

et al. 2022

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Electricity is a crucial part of our everyday lives. A limited number of resources can be utilized to generate power; hence, one must save these resources or electricity for future utilization. This is only possible by using energy most efficiently. For sustainable development and energy conservation, energy auditing plays an indispensable role. The energy audit is an extensive study that helps to identify energy use among different services and provides opportunities for energy conservation. The literature showed various energy audits conducted at various locations with its analysis. Few were shown that the appliances are responsible for high energy consumption, and few talked about the cost analysis with energy-saving methodologies. This work is proposed to combine the integration of renewable energy sources in a building and the cost-saving due to energy-efficient appliances. This paper tries to observe, infer, and analyze the patterns of energy usage of a residential complex and various measures to reduce energy consumption and cost-saving. A case study is included to analyze the reduction in consumption of energy per unit to make the building energy efficient. A feasibility study is executed to observe the increments in costs. Calculations for auditing will reduce the building’s carbon footprint and benefit residents in the form of cost savings in the long run.

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Design considerations for net zero energy buildings for intensive, confined poultry production: A review of current insights, knowledge gaps, and future directions

Arulnathan

Heidari

et al. 2022

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Advanced Innovative Solutions for Final Design in Terms of Energy Sustainability of Nearly/Net Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB)

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Commitment Indicators for Tracking Sustainable Design Decisions in Construction Projects

Commitment Indicators for Tracking Sustainable Design Decisions in Construction Projects

Energy Audit of a Residential Building to Reduce Energy Cost and Carbon Footprint for Sustainable Development with Renewable Energy Sources

Design considerations for net zero energy buildings for intensive, confined poultry production: A review of current insights, knowledge gaps, and future directions

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