ecoMOD: Analyzing Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah C. Foster ◽  
Alison V. Tramba ◽  
Lindsay J. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Affordable Housing

scholarly journals A Conceptual Benefits Realization Model for Minimization of Transaction Costs in Building Energy Efficiency (BEE) Affordable Housing Delivery

2019 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 03013
Author(s):  
Abdulazeez U. Raji
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Building Energy Efficiency ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Specific Investment ◽  
Benefits Realization ◽  
Key Dimensions

Energy efficiency is fundamental to enhancing homes affordability. There are several unique challenges to affordable housing that owner-developers need to address in order for energy efficiency to make significant economic sense. Issues such as Transaction Costs (TCs) plays a significant role in achieving building energy efficiency (BEE) for affordable housing delivery. It is evident that split incentives, information asymmetry, institutional transition, opportunistic behavior, and ill-informed users incur different levels of TCs and affect stakeholder’s willingness to take part in BEE for affordable housing. A better understanding of the nature and structure of TCs is indispensable to enhance the market-drive and investment for BEE affordable housing. Uncertainty, specific investment, frequency, and bounded rationality seen as the key dimensions of TCs. The research focuses on how to minimize TCs involve in BEE affordable housing delivery. It was found in the literature that, the level of TCs for building energy efficiency estimated at 20.5% of total project costs. A conceptual competency-driven benefits realization model is proposed for minimizing TCs taking into consideration the peculiarities of the current housing projects delivery. This research aims to establish the significance of leveraging on BEE project team-competency and commitment organized within a strategic Benefits Realization Management framework to optimize client‘s benefits regarding minimizing TCs. The focus is on the aspect of a developer’s competencies and their project team commitment concerning minimizing TCs that structured within a Benefits Realization Management (BRM) practice. This model is proposed as a pro-active enabler tool to achieve Value for Money in BEE affordable housing projects. This paper is part of a series of publications.

scholarly journals Affordable housing through energy efficiency: The Northgate story

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.C. Diamond ◽  
J.A. McAllister ◽  
H.E. Feustel ◽  
C. Patullo ◽  
T. Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Affordable Housing

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE. ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ECOLOGICAL COMPATIBILITY OF LARGE-SCALE AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITH HONG KONG AS AN EXAMPLE

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Pavlovich GENERALOV ◽  
Elena Mikhaylovna GENERALOVA
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Residential Units

The article discusses issues related to the need for sustainable development of th-city environment, analyzes the problems arising in the process of formation of modern standards of energy efficiency and sustainability of affordable mass housing in Russia. Lighting beauty rich experience of Hong Kong in the use of green technologies during construction and operation of high-rise complexes, public housing, site improvement, development of public infrastructure, as well as criteria certification based on the level of environmental efficiency. Specifics of using different types of renewable energy, the active planting areas, protection measures against noise and innovative design approaches in terms of high-density development when the inclusion of residential units in the urban environment is based on the collection and comprehensive processing of large amount of information, covering architectural design, engineering, technological, economic and other aspects.

Energy efficiency and economic value in affordable housing

Energy Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 39-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Chegut ◽  
Piet Eichholtz ◽  
Rogier Holtermans
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Economic Value

Energy Efficiency and Economic Value in Affordable Housing

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Chegut ◽  
Piet M. A. Eichholtz ◽  
Rogier Holtermans
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Economic Value

A Cost Analysis of Wall-Hung Mounted Gas Boiler Using in Residential Buildings of Beijing

2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 2914-2919
Author(s):  
Tong Yang ◽  
Wei Na ◽  
De Ying Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Energy Structure

In order to improve the city environment, and achieve a leap in making reasonable use of natural gas and optimizing energy structure, the Beijing municipal government has established its basic policy to “transform its coal-based energy structure, introduce large amount of natural gas”. As the wall-hung gas boiler has easy operation, flexible adjustment and high energy efficiency, the application of it is becoming more widely considered among the residential building. The work proposes the survey of the heating way about affordable housing and the “two limit” commodity housing in Beijing. The adaptability between the household wall-hung gas boiler heating way and other heating ways is compared. The energy efficiency, initial investment and operating cost of all the heating ways that are being used in Beijing are discussed in the paper. The final analysis is then evaluated by a panel of experts to determine its accuracy and potential for use in a greenway development plan of heating way in Beijing. Analysis shows that the commercial housing is more suitable than affordable housing to use the wall-hung gas boiler. This is mainly be effected by the characteristics of the user’s economic condition and the residences’ distribution.

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