Modeling and optimization of building mix and energy supply technology for urban districts

Best, Robert E.; Flager, Forest; Lepech, Michael D.

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.08.076

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“…The balance between heat demand and supply is considered for a community near San Francisco in Ref. [25] focusing on costs, carbon dioxide emissions and system efficiency while [24] emphasises the role of domestic energy efficiency in the United Kingdom without further assessment of feasible saving levels. Single-country assessments are also part of [7,23] while [27] analyses Europe as a single entity.…”

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Heat Roadmap Europe: Identifying the balance between saving heat and supplying heat

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“…However, only few attempts of quantifying the balance between heat savings and heat supply have been developed so far and only for national systems such as Denmark [7] [23] and the UK [24] or on urban district scale [25]. In Ref.…”

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confidence: 99%

Heat Roadmap Europe: Identifying the balance between saving heat and supplying heat

Hansen

Connolly

Lund

et al. 2016

Energy

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“…In the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, MDO has been stated to be used "to improve product quality and reduce time to market" [11]. Some cited benefits of MDO are "22 percent cost savings on average…20 percent less time" [12], "maximize energy efficiency" [13], and "reducing total project construction cost by 7 percent" [11], "in a multidisciplinary design environment, use of the collaborative architecture provides additional operational advantages" [14], and "collaborative design is an emerging promising field…optimizing the use of materials and energy can be effectively achieved using these new technologies" [15]. The following KPI's have been identified as project performance objectives achieved through good design optimization; i)Cost savings, ii) Schedule savings, iii) Energy/water efficiency, iv) Operational Functionality, v) Adaptability, and vi) Material Optimization (Reduced waste)…”

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Comparison of Key Project Performance Indicators of Different Construction Sectors in Terms of Collaboration and Integration

Barutha¹,

Jeong²,

Kang³

2019

Proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference 2019

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There is strong evidence to suggest that the use of collaboration and integration principles and methods improve overall project performance in the construction industry. Commercial Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Civil Infrastructure Alliance Contracting have specific collaboration and integration principles that define each as a unique delivery method. This paper investigates the similarities and differences between IPD and alliancing in terms of their key principles and explains the differences using the inherent differences between the construction sectors that have dominantly used each of the project delivery methods. The study uses 14 key performance indicators that are typically used to measure the performance of construction projects categorized into a) design optimization and b) construction risk management. The study concludes that IPD is more preferable for projects that require design optimization as the major KPI while alliancing might be more suitable for projects that deal with a significant amount of construction risks. The findings of this study can serve as a guide to properly identify collaboration and integration principles that will allow for better and enhanced project performance in a specific construction sector.

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“…The rise of DERs and bottom-up local energy initiatives further complicates the planning and operation of the present energy system as well as the associated economic and environmental implications [42]. In this context, DERs investment and scheduling problems have been addressed by several studies [43][44][45][46][47]. Many of these studies present sophisticated optimization techniques to solve DER investment and scheduling problems.…”

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Local Alternative for Energy Supply: Performance Assessment of Integrated Community Energy Systems

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Integrated community energy systems (ICESs) are emerging as a modern development to re-organize local energy systems allowing simultaneous integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and engagement of local communities. Although local energy initiatives, such as ICESs are rapidly emerging due to community objectives, such as cost and emission reductions as well as resiliency, assessment and evaluation are still lacking on the value that these systems can provide both to the local communities as well as to the whole energy system. In this paper, we present a model-based framework to assess the value of ICESs for the local communities. The distributed energy resources-consumer adoption model (DER-CAM) based ICES model is used to assess the value of an ICES in the Netherlands. For the considered community size and local conditions, grid-connected ICESs are already beneficial to the alternative of solely being supplied from the grid both in terms of total energy costs and CO 2 emissions, whereas grid-defected systems, although performing very well in terms of CO 2 emission reduction, are still rather expensive.

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Modeling and optimization of building mix and energy supply technology for urban districts

Cited by 69 publications

References 36 publications

Heat Roadmap Europe: Identifying the balance between saving heat and supplying heat

Heat Roadmap Europe: Identifying the balance between saving heat and supplying heat

Comparison of Key Project Performance Indicators of Different Construction Sectors in Terms of Collaboration and Integration

Local Alternative for Energy Supply: Performance Assessment of Integrated Community Energy Systems

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