Towards sustainable-energy buildings

Chwieduk, Dorota

doi:10.1016/s0306-2619(03)00059-x

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“…Accordingly to sustainable development principles, buildings refurbishment encouraging environment conservation and favourable living conditions must be affordable to people and not too expensive (Chwieduk, 2003). Dissemination about refurbishment is wide, labour -intensive and involving numerous functions activity.…”

Section: The Conceptual Model Of Sustainable Buildings Refurbishmentmentioning

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The Concept Model of Sustainable Buildings Refurbishment

Mickaityte

Zavadskas

Kaklauskas

et al. 2008

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

155

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ABSTRACT. Sustainable development principles reaching many spheres of human activities, public buildings refurbishment is not an exemption in this case. Buildings refurbishment supports excellent opportunities to reduce energy consumption in buildings as well as encourages other sustainable refurbishment principles implementation -citizens' healthcare, environment protection, rational resources use, information about sustainable refurbishment dissemination and stakeholders groups' awareness. During the pilot refurbishment FP-6 project Brita in PuBs, authors of this article have developed conceptual sustainable public buildings refurbishment model. Model was created basing on sustainable development principles, their consideration in decision making process and model efficiency influencing factors. In order to demonstrate models' application possibilities following the healthcare principle, practical case study of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University main building pollution mapping is given at the end of this article.

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Section: The Conceptual Model Of Sustainable Buildings Refurbishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Concept Model of Sustainable Buildings Refurbishment

Mickaityte

Zavadskas

Kaklauskas

et al. 2008

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

155

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“…Last decades, the design of low-energy buildings has diverged into two alternative directions: active technologies and passive design strategies [1][2][3]. The first approach aims at enhancing the level of sustainability in the built environment via the introduction of innovative technical devices.…”

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Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Loonen

Trcka

Cóstola

et al. 2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…those attributed to the non-use phases of a product's life cycle) (Berners-Lee et al 2011; also see Filimonau et al 2013 for a detailed overview of the 'direct' and 'indirect' carbon footprint as generated by various 16 tourism products). There is growing evidence demonstrating that the 'indirect' environmental impacts can be substantial and, in some cases, they can even surpass the magnitude of the 'direct' environmental effects which underlines the importance of their thorough investigation (Chwieduk 2003). All this contributes to the true comprehensiveness and accuracy of the LCA method which positively differentiates it from alternatives and determines a steady growth of its applications in a number of disciplines and subject areas, including tourism (De Camillis et al 2010).…”

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The carbon footprint appraisal of local visitor travel in Brazil: A case of the Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo itinerary

Pereira

Ribeiro

Filimonau

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Tourism transportation contributes substantially to the global carbon footprint. This contribution is predicted to enlarge, especially in 'emerging' tourism markets, and hence urgent carbon mitigation is necessary. Effective mitigation is determined by reliable carbon footprint assessments whose number is however limited, particularly for developing countries with growing tourism. This study applied the life cycle assessment (LCA) based method to appraise the carbon significance of various transport modes between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the key itinerary for travel with leisure and tourism purposes by local residents and overseas visitors in Brazil. Given the envisaged rise in biofuel use in the Brazilian transportation sector, this study is unique in that it evaluated the carbon reduction potential offered by biofuel. The study demonstrated that overland public transport represents the most carbon-efficient mode of local transportation. It further highlighted the crucial role of biofuel in minimising the carbon intensity of transportation between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.Policy-making and managerial recommendations were put forward to facilitate more climatebenign local transportation practices.

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Towards sustainable-energy buildings

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The Concept Model of Sustainable Buildings Refurbishment

The Concept Model of Sustainable Buildings Refurbishment

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

The carbon footprint appraisal of local visitor travel in Brazil: A case of the Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo itinerary

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