Progress in ZEBs—A review of definitions, policies and construction activity

Panagiotidou, Maria; Fuller, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.099

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“…As far as policies are concerned, the ZEB is currently receiving an increasing amount of attention in several countries [12][13][14]. In Europe, the recasting of the European Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires all new buildings, built in Member States, to be "nearly zero-energy" buildings (nZEB) by 2020.…”

Section: Zero-energy At the Building Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, new construction and renovation standards ((very) low-energy standards, passive house standards) [5][6][7] have been developed to drastically minimise the energy consumption of new and retrofitted buildings and the associated greenhouse gas emissions. During the last few years, "zero-energy buildings" have aroused increasing interest internationally in the scientific literature (e.g., [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]), policies aiming at a more sustainable built environment and even concrete applications.…”

Section: Zero-energy At the Building Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the United States of America, the Energy Independence and Security Act (2007) [21], which concerns the energy policy of the entire country, aims to create a nationwide net zero-energy initiative for houses built after 2020 and commercial buildings built after 2025. The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, a public-private partnership of seven countries (Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States of America), aims also at promoting the development of net zero energy homes [13].…”

Section: Zero-energy At the Building Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

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A simplified framework to assess the feasibility of zero-energy at the neighbourhood/community scale

Marique

Reiter

2014

Energy and Buildings

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a b s t r a c t Zero-energy buildings (ZEBs) are attracting increasing interest internationally in policies aiming at a more sustainably built environment, the scientific literature and practical applications. Although "zero energy" can be considered at different scales (e.g., community, city), the most common approach adopts only the perspective of the individual building. Moreover, the feasibility of this objective is not really addressed, especially as far as the retrofitting of the existing building stock is concerned. Therefore, this paper aims first to investigate the opportunity to extend the "zero-energy building" concept to the neighbourhood scale by taking into account two main challenges: (1) the impact of urban form on energy needs and the on-site production of renewable energy and (2) the impact of location on transportation energy consumption. It proposes a simplified framework and a calculation method that is then applied to two representative case studies (one urban neighbourhood and one rural neighbourhood) to investigate the feasibility of zero-energy in existing neighbourhoods. The main parameters that act upon the energy balance are identified. The potential of "energy mutualisation" at the neighbourhood scale is highlighted. This paper thereby shows the potentialities of an integrated approach linking transportation and building energy consumptions.

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Section: Zero-energy At the Building Scalementioning

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Section: Zero-energy At the Building Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Zero-energy At the Building Scalementioning

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A simplified framework to assess the feasibility of zero-energy at the neighbourhood/community scale

Marique

Reiter

2014

Energy and Buildings

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“…Zero Energy Buildings represent the next step. By definition, their annual energy balance is zero due to the implementation of a range of micro-generation technologies, such as solar PV, and the integration and optimisation of passive solutions (Panagiotidou & Fuller, 2013;Sartori, Napolitano, & Voss, 2012).…”

Section: Plus-energy Homes and Concepts Of Their Systems For Space Comentioning

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The impact of ventilation cooling towers on plus energy houses in southern Europe

Babich

Cook

Cremers

et al. 2017

International Journal of Ventilation

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Cooling homes is often important to maintain acceptable internal comfort. This can be achieved by both active and passive solutions. This research focused on passive systems and has examined one hypothesis, that evaporative cooling towers are an important element of plus-energy houses in southern Europe. Refinements to the design of the existing ventilation tower of a Solar Decathlon House developed by the Hochschule f€ ur Technik Stuttgart are proposed and tested in eight locations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain using dynamic thermal and computational fluid dynamics simulations in order to predict energy consumption, mean and peak CO 2 levels, temperatures, ventilation rates, cooling potential, fresh air distribution, indoor air quality and water consumption of the evaporative cooling system implemented within the tower. Results show that a 50% reduction of the annual energy demand for space cooling to be satisfied by other systems is achieved without compromising the internal comfort.

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“…The first idea of ZEB was born in the 1970s with an experimental Zero Energy House, constructed by the Technical University of Denmark [11].…”

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Reuse and Upcycling of Municipal Waste for ZEB Envelope Design in European Urban Areas

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Abstract:Building energy efficiency and urban waste management are two focal issues for improving environmental status and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The main aim of this paper is to compare economic costs of new building envelope structures designed by authors reusing and upcycling municipal waste in order to decrease energy demand from the building sector and, at the same time, improve eco-friendly waste management at the local scale. The reuse of waste for building envelope structures is one of the main principles of the Earthship buildings model, based on the use of passive solar principles in autonomous earth-sheltered homes. This Earthship principle has been analyzed in order to optimize buildings' energy performance and reuse municipal waste for new building envelope structures in urban areas. Indeed, the elaborated structures have been designed for urban contexts, with the aim of reuse waste coming from surrounding landfills. The methods include an analysis of thermal performance of urban waste for designing new building envelope structures realized by assembling waste and isolating materials not foreseen in Earthship buildings. The reused materials are: cardboard tubes, automobile tires, wood pallets, and plastic and glass bottles. Finally, comparing economic costs of these new building envelope structures, the obtained results highlight their economic feasibility compared to a traditional structure with similar thermal transmittance.

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Progress in ZEBs—A review of definitions, policies and construction activity

Cited by 103 publications

References 11 publications

A simplified framework to assess the feasibility of zero-energy at the neighbourhood/community scale

A simplified framework to assess the feasibility of zero-energy at the neighbourhood/community scale

The impact of ventilation cooling towers on plus energy houses in southern Europe

Reuse and Upcycling of Municipal Waste for ZEB Envelope Design in European Urban Areas

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