What is the relationship between built form and energy use in dwellings?

Wright, A. J.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2008.09.014

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“…Since heat is also a side product of electricity production in CHP plants, decreasing heat consumption in buildings only affects the overall carbon emissions if electricity generation is reduced as well [45]. Electricity use, however, is predominantly controlled by the residents and cannot be affected very much by building characteristics in district heated buildings [46,47]. The implication is that reducing the energy production GHG intensity and electricity consumption should be the primary targets of the carbon reduction strategies in the built environment instead of energy efficient buildings.…”

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Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?

Heinonen

Säynäjoki

Kuronen³

et al. 2012

Energies

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Built environment carbon reduction strategies materialize predominantly in city-level greenhouse gas (GHG) management, where new residential development appears as one of the key instruments. However, city-level assessments are often incapable of producing data at a community or neighborhood level and thus they may heavily underestimate the emissions from new construction. This paper explores the implications of low-energy residential construction as an instrument of climate change mitigation in the built environment and demonstrates why city-level approaches easily fail to identify the significance of the emissions from construction. We employ a hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) approach to demonstrate that, when the temporal allocation of emissions from the construction and use phases is taken into account, construction phase emissions come to have a central role in finding effective GHG mitigation strategies-even when the emissions from all consumption activities during the use phase are included in the assessment. In fact, their role would seem to be so central that new residential construction cannot be utilized as an instrument of city carbon management, even over a relatively long period. While we analyze a case study from Finland, the analysis intends to highlight the situation throughout the globe.

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Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?

Heinonen

Säynäjoki

Kuronen³

et al. 2012

Energies

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“…In England, 39% of the housing stock was built before 1944, 42% was built between 1945 and 1980 and only 19% was constructed after 1980 when thermal standards were raised significantly (Wright 2008). This is problematic for the UK government, which is committed to significantly reducing the CO 2 emissions from domestic housing stock by 2050.…”

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“…Current estimates suggest that 75% of the present UK housing stock will still exist in 2050 and around 33% of the 2050 housing stock has yet to be built (Wright 2008).…”

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Energy-efficiency interventions in housing: learning from the inhabitants

Crosbie

Baker²

2010

Building Research & Information

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Technological solutions to domestic energy reduction are insufficient without the cooperation of householders. It does not matter how much energy hypothetically could be saved by efficient technologies, if no one wants to live in the properties, install or use efficient lighting and heating. Therefore, to improve the uptake and effectiveness of household energy efficiency interventions, it is necessary to understand 'why people react to particular energy efficiency interventions in the ways that they do?' An analysis is presented of in-depth interviews with 50 householders that participated in one of four domestic energy efficiency interventions. The findings indicate that issues such as aesthetic tastes and effects on lifestyle are central to why people reject economically viable simple and well understood domestic energy efficiency interventions.

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“…Consumption in other parts of the world, though lower, shows similar upward trajectories [7]. Despite the technological innovations and efficiency gains, studies suggest that energy consumption will continue to increase due to lifestyle and demographic changes, increased wealth, and latent demand [8][9][10]. This has led researchers to conclude that realizing a reduction in urban energy use will require changes in social and spatial characteristics of human settlements [2, 11, 12•].…”

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Connecting Regional Governance, Urban Form, and Energy Use: Opportunities and Limitations

Chakraborty

Allred

2015

Curr Sustainable Renewable Energy Rep

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In this article, we explore the links between urban form, land use planning, and energy use. We organize the reviewed literature as follows: (1) potential energy savings from compact development; (2) achieving compact development through land use regulations; and (3) approaches for coordinating land use regulations regionally. We find that while the literature shows a clear link between regional governance, urban form outcomes, and energy use, questions remain on measuring the impact and communicating the degree to which energy use benefits can offset other real and perceived costs associated with greater land use regulation and regional coordination. Our discussion focuses on how researchers, practitioners, and policymakers can better leverage these connections.

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What is the relationship between built form and energy use in dwellings?

Cited by 65 publications

References 4 publications

Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?

Are the Greenhouse Gas Implications of New Residential Developments Understood Wrongly?

Energy-efficiency interventions in housing: learning from the inhabitants

Connecting Regional Governance, Urban Form, and Energy Use: Opportunities and Limitations

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