Building Industry and Energy Efficiency: A Review of Three Major Issues at Stake

2021 ◽  
pp. 226-240
Author(s):  
Sergio Copiello ◽  
Laura Gabrielli ◽  
Ezio Micelli
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Building Industry

Energy Efficiency Uptake Within the Project House Building Industry

2008 ◽  
pp. 335-343
Author(s):  
M. D. Ambrose ◽  
S.N. Tucker ◽  
A. E. Delsante ◽  
D. R. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
House Building

scholarly journals LEED Scores of Residential Buildings in Poor Cities: Kabul City Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6959
Author(s):  
Najib Rahman Sabory ◽  
Tomonobo Senjyu ◽  
Adina Hashemi Momand ◽  
Hadya Waqfi ◽  
Nilofar Saboor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Building Sector ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Water Transportation

Urbanization and technology have proven to be detrimental to the environment. Buildings contribute a significant portion of this damage. This issue motivated governments, builders, engineers, and architects to seek ways to reduce buildings’ environmental footprints. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is one of the most widely used strategies to ensure energy efficiency and a clean environment in buildings. In Afghanistan, where there are no active regulatory frameworks for energy saving and efficiency for the building sector, it is imperative to promote the transformation of the building industry and practices towards sustainability. In this regard, the role of the residential building sector is of utmost importance due to its major share in the country’s energy consumption and GHG emissions profile. Thus, this study assesses the energy efficiency and environmental impact of existing buildings in Kabul city concerning the LEED rating system. This research suggests practical steps to improve the sustainability of the residential building stock in Kabul city. Robust sets of data on existing residential buildings in Kabul are collected, classified, evaluated, and compared to LEED standards. This research reveals and concludes that most of the existing buildings in Kabul city are in poor conditions and do not meet the minimum requirements to be a candidate for LEED certification. A detailed analysis of the results has led to recommendations on how these buildings could improve to meet the LEED criteria. This is the first study of its kind conducted for Kabul city residential building. Considering the cross-sectoral nature of the building industry, the findings of this study will contribute to many other areas such as water, transportation, ICT, health, energy and the environment.

Usage of Building Information Modelling for Evaluation of Energy Efficiency

2013 ◽  
Vol 409-410 ◽  
pp. 630-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Volkov ◽  
Artem Sedov ◽  
Pavel Chelyshkov
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Building Information Model ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Potable Water Supply ◽  
Modern Building

The article describes a specialized building information model implemented in a Matlab environment. It is designed to evaluate the energy efficiency of a building. It is supporting water, heat and electricity as resources consumed during the usage phase of a building. The danger of global warming, natural resources depletion and world ecosystem collapse currently is constantly increasing. When this happens 45% of world’s energy consumption, 65% of electric power, 40% of raw materials, building industry uses 14% of potable water supply. At the same time this industry provides 35% of all carbon dioxide emissions and almost half of all solid wastes. Therefore sustainability and energy efficiency development for buildings and structures is one of the main problems of modern building industry.

Bioclimatic architecture and its energy-saving potentials: a review and future directions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Imuetinyan Aghimien ◽  
Danny Hin Wa Li ◽  
Ernest Kin-Wai Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Building Energy Efficiency ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThis paper reviews extant studies on bioclimatic architecture with a view of revealing the focus areas of past studies and mapping out future research directions useful in achieving building energy efficiency.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-method systematic review that integrates quantitative and qualitative analysis was adopted. The bibliographic data were extracted from the Scopus database, and a scientometric analysis was conducted to analyse the data quantitatively. Qualitative content analysis is then presented, which provided a basis for mapping out trends and gaps in current knowledge.FindingsIt is observed that there has been a rise in the number of studies on bioclimatic architecture over the last two decades. Past studies have focused on sustainability, building performance simulation, building climatology and energy use, solar energy applications and passive cooling. Artificial intelligence, algorithm coupling and acoustic comfort were some of the emerging areas discovered in this study.Research limitations/implicationsThe study reveals research gaps that researchers can investigate.Practical implicationsThe information provided can help the building industry stakeholders in decision-making. It serves as a guideline for maximising the potential benefits of adopting bioclimatic designs in the building industry. Furthermore, it provides references that aid policy formulation for government agencies and corporate organisations.Originality/valueThe study fills the literature gap caused by the need for a holistic literature review that relates bioclimatic architecture and its energy efficiency implications. It is also the first study on bioclimatic architecture that adopts a mix of scientometric and qualitative analysis for analysing past studies on bioclimatic architecture.

Research on High-Rise Buildings Energy Efficiency Design in Advanced Structure

2013 ◽  
Vol 700 ◽  
pp. 89-92
Author(s):  
Juan Li ◽  
Ying Pan
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
General Interest ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The Core ◽  
Reduce Energy Consumption

Early in the 20th century 70's, the concept of energy-saving building was officially proposed. The core of energy-saving buildings is to reduce energy consumption and enhance energy efficiency in buildings. However, with the continued rapid growth of China's economic and urbanization high-rise buildings have become the mainstream of the building industry. So, the research on energy-saving design in high-rise buildings in advanced structure becomes the hot issue of general interest. Many advanced structures and building materials have constantly developed, and have been used in high-rise buildings energy efficiency design. This paper summarizes and prospects the current situation of energy-saving design in chinas high-rise building, and also provides a reference for hoping the energy-saving design can be geared to international standards better.

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