Implication of global warming on air-conditioned office buildings in Australia

Guan, Lisa

doi:10.1080/09613210802611025

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“…An increase in cooling load due to climatic change was also taken into account in order to determine the future energy consumption of the air conditioning system (Guan, 2009).…”

Section: Goal and Scope Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon footprint and embodied energy consumption assessment of building construction works in Western Australia

Biswas

2014

International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment

127

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The Australian Green Infrastructure Council (AGIC) is currently leading a new approach to the delivering and operating of infrastructure through a more careful examination of the carbon footprint of construction activities. Using a life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, this paper presents life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy analysis of the Engineering Pavilion (hereinafter referred to as Building 216), at Curtin University Western Australia. The University utilises a Building Management System (BMS) to reduce its overall operational energy consumption.This LCA analysis employed a 'mining to use' approach, in other words, the analysis takes into account all of the stages up to the utilisation stage. The life cycle GHG emissions and embodied energy of Building 216 were calculated to be 14,229 tonne CO 2 -e and 172 TJ, respectively. This paper identified the 'hotspots', or the stages in production and operation of Building 216 that were the cause of the majority of the GHG emissions. From this, proposals for further improvements in environmental management may be made. The usage stage of the building produces 63% less GHG emissions than the University average, due to the implementation of the BMS. This system has played a significant role in reducing the total embodied energy consumption of the building (i.e., 20% less than the University average).

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“…An increase in cooling load due to climatic change was also taken into account in order to determine the future energy consumption of the air conditioning system (Guan, 2009).…”

Section: Goal and Scope Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon footprint and embodied energy consumption assessment of building construction works in Western Australia

Biswas

2014

International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment

127

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“…However, the cooling load shows an obvious rising trend in contrast to historical experience. As a reference, a similarly rising trend was reported elsewhere for the air conditioning load, and the trend was attributed to the effect of global warming in some researches [50,51].…”

Section: Load Simulation Results For a Cooling Seasonmentioning

confidence: 51%

A research on a following day load simulation method based on weather forecast parameters

Wang

Cheng

2015

Energy Conversion and Management

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“…Therefore, the use of energy efficient heating systems would be important in these cities. The possible use of solar heating systems, either active solar heating or passive solar heating [28] in these areas should have great potential. 3.…”

Section: The Potential Use Of Direct Evaporative Cooling In Australiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The major climate indicators for these cities are listed in Table 2 [28]. It is noted that VSN in Table 2 represents the average annual solar irradiation (MJ/m 2 /day) incident on a vertical surface oriented facing the sun, which is north in the Southern hemisphere.…”

Section: Study Locationsmentioning

confidence: 99%