Approaches to the design of sustainable housing with low CO2 emission in Denmark

Knudstrup, Mary-Ann; Hansen, Hanne Tine Ring; Brunsgaard, Camilla

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2009.02.002

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“…These regulations and policies, and their potential benefits in energy savings and carbon emission reduction, are based on current climates [15,16]. Since a warming climate can change building energy performance, and thus carbon emissions, this assumption of a current climate will impinge on the effectiveness of regulations and carbon emission reduction schemes, as well as future compliance with regulations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Global warming and its implication to emission reduction strategies for residential buildings

Wang

Chen

Ren

2011

Building and Environment

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Global warming and its implication to emission reduction strategies for residential buildings

Wang

Chen

Ren

2011

Building and Environment

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“…Passive Houses are eco-friendly by definition [10].They use extremely little primary energy, leaving sufficient energy resources for all future generations without causing any environmental damage. This seems so obvious that there is no immediate need for additional illustrations.…”

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Mitigating High Energy Consumption for Residential Buildings in The Gambia.

Sonko¹,

Wang²

2017

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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As the price of energy goes up, more and more concern has been focused on the sustainable development of residential houses. One of the best solutions would be construction of low energy consuming "passive" houses. A study of residential buildings in The Gambia shows that most occupants of the buildings have persistent and growing problems with the indoor environment. Most buildings are characterized by poor design in relation to the climate, which requires a great deal of energy for cooling during extreme climate. Other problems are poor natural ventilation, inadequate surface volume ratio and poor building orientation. The main question analyzed was whether comfort is achievable solely by the use of passive design strategies, or if energy consuming mechanical systems are required. However, there is no official residential passive housing standard at the present time in The Gambia. This paper focus on the experimental and numerical investigations to determine how the building construction mass, the climatic parameters and the management of air changes rates behave on the effectiveness of natural ventilation and on indoor comfort conditions. Using portable thermometers monitoring instruments data were acquired during a period of a hottest summer phase, in parallel with occupancy survey. Passive cooling techniques can reduce the peak cooling load in buildings, thus reducing the size of the air conditioning equipment and the period for which it is generally required. This paper reviews and critically analyzes various passive cooling techniques and their role in providing thermal comfort and its significance in energy conservation.

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“…Mastny and Mastna (2010) conducted a research on designing energy systems for low-energy buildings with the support of knowledge technologies. Knudstrup, Hansen, and Brunsgaard (2009) discussed a survey of different types of approaches to the sustainable design of building and showed example of new Danish housing projects that can minimize the use of energy for heating and cooling in the shape of detached houses. Jiang and Tovey (2009) proposed a series of lowcarbon sustainability strategies including effective energy management, technical measures for energy conservation, renewable energy technologies, awareness raising and behaviour change, and offsetting methods for Chinese buildings, while carbon emission costs for the implementation of these strategies were not accounted for.…”

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Optimization method for building envelope design to minimize carbon emissions of building operational energy consumption using orthogonal experimental design (OED)

Zhu

Chew

et al. 2013

Habitat International

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Approaches to the design of sustainable housing with low CO2 emission in Denmark

Cited by 45 publications

References 18 publications

Global warming and its implication to emission reduction strategies for residential buildings

Global warming and its implication to emission reduction strategies for residential buildings

Mitigating High Energy Consumption for Residential Buildings in The Gambia.

Optimization method for building envelope design to minimize carbon emissions of building operational energy consumption using orthogonal experimental design (OED)

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