Considerations Regarding the Green Retrofitting of Residential Buildings From Human Wellbeing Perspectives

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-175
Author(s):  
Raluca Andreea Felseghi ◽  
Teodora Melania Şoimoşan ◽  
Constatin Filote ◽  
Maria Simona Răboaca
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Increase Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Efficiency Policies

Currently, buildings are considered to be a continuously evolving organism that over time has to be treated, rehabilitated, and upgraded to meet the requirements set by the user at a certain stage. Buildings are a central element of the EU member states' energy efficiency policies, accounting for about 40% of final energy consumption, and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions, and about 75% of buildings are not energy efficient. Recent applications and studies establish that green retrofitting has maintained older existing buildings to increase energy efficiency, optimize building performance, increase occupants' satisfaction, and boost economic return while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. In this regard, this chapter aims to address the main factors that negatively affect the performance of residential buildings and presents the common green retrofitting measures that can be taken to ensure the state of human well-being in residential buildings.

Considerations Regarding the Green Retrofitting of Residential Buildings From Human Wellbeing Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 274-307
Author(s):  
Raluca Andreea Felseghi ◽  
Teodora Melania Şoimoşan ◽  
Constatin Filote ◽  
Maria Simona Răboaca
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Increase Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Efficiency Policies

Currently, buildings are considered to be a continuously evolving organism that over time has to be treated, rehabilitated, and upgraded to meet the requirements set by the user at a certain stage. Buildings are a central element of the EU member states' energy efficiency policies, accounting for about 40% of final energy consumption, and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions, and about 75% of buildings are not energy efficient. Recent applications and studies establish that green retrofitting has maintained older existing buildings to increase energy efficiency, optimize building performance, increase occupants' satisfaction, and boost economic return while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. In this regard, this chapter aims to address the main factors that negatively affect the performance of residential buildings and presents the common green retrofitting measures that can be taken to ensure the state of human well-being in residential buildings.

scholarly journals SUPPORT FOR SMALL RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN SLOVAKIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Eva Jankovichová
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Increase Energy Efficiency

Electrical energy and demand is constantly increasing disproportionately. Therefore, taken at Community level long-term programs such as the Europe 2020 strategy, which is primarily focused on the energy sector. Its priorities include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency through the development and introduction of innovative technologies and increasing the share of renewable energy sources (RES) at Community level. The issue of implementation of energy from renewable sources in addition to the existing EU environmental strategies key area where attention is focused policy. Therefore, we can expect a significant inflow of funds into the development of these strategic concepts. Improving the energy efficiency is one of the key strategic approaches, contributing to the achievement of greenhouse gas emissions in Community.

scholarly journals GIS-based urban energy modelling and energy efficiency scenarios using the energy performance certificate database

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guglielmina Mutani ◽  
Valeria Todeschi
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Energy Model ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Energy Performance Of Buildings ◽  
Urban Energy

AbstractThe EU building stock is 97% not energy efficient and the promotion of energy retrofitting strategies is a key way of reducing energy consumptions and greenhouse gas emission. In order to improve the energy performance of buildings, the European Union released the Energy Performance of Buildings and the Energy Efficiency Directives. The certification of the energy performance of a building is a central element of these Directives to monitor and promote energy performance improvements in buildings, with the aim of increasing their energy efficiency level, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This work evaluates the energy performance of existing residential buildings using the energy performance certificate database and identifies the more effective retrofitting interventions by applying an urban-scale energy model. The novelty of this study is that a new retrofitting database is created to improve the results of a building energy model at urban scale taking into account the real characteristics of the built environment. The here presented GIS-based monthly engineering model is flexible and easily applicable to different contexts, and was used to investigate energy efficiency scenarios by evaluating their effects of city scale. An urban energy atlas was designed for an Italian city, Turin, as a decision-making platform for policy makers and citizens. This energy platform can give information on energy consumption, production and productivity potential, but also on energy retrofitting scenarios. The results of this work show that it is possible to obtain energy savings for space heating of 79,064 MWh/year for the residential buildings connected to the district heating network in the city of Turin; these interventions refer mainly to thermal insulation of buildings envelope with windows replacement and allow a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 12,097 tonCO2eq/year.

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