Social acceptability of using low carbon building: a survey exploration

Alam, Sadaf; Moula, Md. Munjur E.; Lahdelma, Risto

doi:10.1080/14786451.2020.1781852

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“…It highlights that the architects, HVAC engineers, and property owners are the ones who consider the most usage of UN sustainable goals. This justifies the results from Q7 (where architects indicate the importance of embodied carbon in the material), as the building materials can contribute significantly to the achievement of UN goals [51]. The results presented in this research [52] proved that building materials can contribute significantly to the achievement of the 13 goals and 25 targets of the SDGs.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…However, property owners, facilities managers, construction design engineers, builders, and contractors ranked the usage of renewable energies as rather unimportant. Nevertheless, when it comes to the knowledge of energy efficiency, the survey [51] highlighted that most of the respondents consider renewable energy technologies (RETs) such as solar PV as one the energy-efficiency options among others such as solar hot water, nuclear power, power plant, wind energy, solar power plants, etc.…”

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Attitudes and Approaches of Finnish Retrofit Industry Stakeholders toward Achieving Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings

Alam

Airaksinen²,

Lahdelma

2021

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Key stakeholders in industry are highly responsible for achieving energy performance targets. Particularly, this paper assesses the attitudes, approaches, and experiences of Finnish construction professionals regarding energy-efficient buildings, or nZEBs. A three-tier investigation was conducted including surveys and expert interviews with several stakeholders. The structure of this approach was informed by preliminary data and information available on the Finnish construction sector. The questionnaire showed that the stakeholders ranked energy efficiency and embodied energy/carbon as very important. The survey highlighted that the importance of the embodied carbon CO2 in the materials is less important than the energy efficiency from many of the stakeholders’ points of view. “Energy efficiency” is very important for ESCOs, contractors, and facility managers followed by architects, HVAC engineers, and construction design engineers. Nevertheless, the opinions of architects ranked “embodied energy CO2” as the most important regarding nZEB. When it comes to the importance of “running time emissions” toward nZEB, contractors and ESCO companies ranked it as 1 for importance followed by property owners (78%) and tenants (75%). It is very fascinating to see from the survey that “running time carbon emissions” has been ranked 1 (very important) by all stakeholders. This study will enable construction industry stakeholders to make provisions for overcoming the barriers, gaps, and challenges identified in the practices of the nZEB projects. It will also inform the formulation of policies that drive retrofit uptake.

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Section: Importance Of Carbon Neutrality Reaching the Nzebmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes and Approaches of Finnish Retrofit Industry Stakeholders toward Achieving Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings

Alam

Airaksinen²,

Lahdelma

2021

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“…To ensure end-user participation, the real estate housing market must introduce financial incentives to buy low-carbon buildings [93]. The study found that the public is willing to learn more about renewable resource knowledge and hoped that the government could take corresponding measures to raise awareness of low-carbon buildings [94]. Countries should take the government's lead to publicize the advantages and benefits of low-carbon buildings, advocate a low-carbon lifestyle, enhance the awareness of low-carbon buildings, and thus increase the market demand for low-carbon buildings.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Research Trends and Hotspots of Foreign and Chinese Building Carbon Emissions Based on Bibliometrics

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Wang

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The construction industry has great potential for carbon emission reduction, which strongly impacts the peak of carbon emissions and carbon neutrality. This paper compares foreign and Chinese articles on building carbon emissions from publication objects, journals, subject categories, authors, and institutions. It discusses the differences in research trends and hotspots from keywords, reference co-citation analysis, and historical citation analysis. The results show that the number of publications on building carbon emissions steadily increased. The research on building carbon emissions in foreign articles is earlier and more systematic than that in China, and the output and influence of foreign articles are generally more prominent than those of Chinese articles. However, the production and influence of articles by certain Chinese authors and institutions have been remarkable. The topics of ‘CO2 emission’, ‘life-cycle assessment’, ‘environmental impact’, ‘greenhouse gas emission’, and ‘renewable energy’ are essential subjects for foreign and Chinese articles in the research field of building carbon emissions and the development trend is similar. The thematic direction of Chinese articles is more divergent and lacks well-developed themes that greatly influence other research themes. Finally, based on the research results, this study puts forward the potential future research direction of building carbon emissions. The results of this study will provide a current and systematic overview of this field, which will be helpful for future researchers to promote the development of research on building carbon emissions.

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“…This learning ability as a feature of intelligent construction needs to account for the influence of factors like human and AI agent responsibilities, as well as training environment characteristics, on the learning procedure in dynamic, uncertain environments. [17]. Furthermore, there is a lack of research that details the training of autonomous, building-integrated AI systems with the ability to make autonomous decisions [18].…”

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Project management mode under the concept of low carbon environmental protection and its value in intelligent construction

Xiang

Zhang

et al. 2023

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Rapid urbanization and climate change are intertwined, making decarbonization of the built environment paramount to stabilizing the future. The commercial and residential sectors generate nearly one-third of carbon emissions. Unexpected fluctuations in operational environments face the flexibility, efficiency, and resilience of building-incorporated energy systems due to climate change and its concerns. Instead, the rapid improvement of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has equipped the construction industry with the capability to learn. This paper suggests a Machine learning-based Carbon Footprint Modeling (ML-CFM) to forecast the CO₂ emissions and energy consumption in intelligent constructions. The data has been collected from the World CO2 Emissions analysis dataset for predicting the carbon emission in residential buildings. A new method based on Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can detect the overall carbon footprint of an intelligent construction design based on the urban layout and building features. A building’s structural characteristics had the most influence on CO2 emissions and energy consumption, followed by the appropriate micro-climate, socioeconomic conditions, and the provincial climate. The ML-CFM is the most effective forecasting model for predicting carbon emission and energy consumption reduction, which offers building managers a valuable tool to enhance decision-making levels and energy efficiency in smart buildings.

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Social acceptability of using low carbon building: a survey exploration

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

Attitudes and Approaches of Finnish Retrofit Industry Stakeholders toward Achieving Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings

Attitudes and Approaches of Finnish Retrofit Industry Stakeholders toward Achieving Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings

Comparative Analysis of Research Trends and Hotspots of Foreign and Chinese Building Carbon Emissions Based on Bibliometrics

Project management mode under the concept of low carbon environmental protection and its value in intelligent construction

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