The Business Case for High-Performance Green Buildings

2013 ◽  
pp. 41-44
2019 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 06024
Author(s):  
Birol Kilkis

Many standard practices of today in the High Performance and Sustainably Green Buildings simply rely on the First-Law of Thermodynamics and economic feasibility in their evaluation and ratings. Although these practices seem to be quite `efficient` and green, new metrics, which are based on the Second-Law, namely exergy rationality metrics show that these practices are not feasible and environmentally advantageous, unless they are redesigned accordingly. For example, a simple ORC system using low-enthalpy geothermal source is not feasible, which means that such a system may save money and apparently energy but definitely destroys exergy compared to direct use of the thermal power from the geothermal well. This poster emphasizes the urgency of switching to exergy-based designs and practices.


Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Dusan Licina

Since the inception of the first green certification scheme several decades ago, expectations for high-performance buildings have been evolving [...]


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Verma ◽  
Anil Kashyap

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehmaashini Jagarajan ◽  
Mat Naim Abdullah @ Mohd Asmoni ◽  
Janice YM Lee ◽  
Mohd Nadzri Jaafar

Sustainability has been the latest value added service in the facility management field. However, the practice of sustainability in the facility management field is not well recognized and understood by the facility management team. As a result, building sector account to be the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions around the world. In fact, there is a strong business case for green building, yet green buildings represent the next phase of buildings. Since, the majority of the existing stock of buildings is not sustainably built and as it is not practically viable to demolish all the existing buildings, hence, one alternate solution is green retrofitting. However, the responses for green retrofitting are at very low rate. This paper reports the need to green retrofitting, reasons behind the limited number of green retrofitting implementation, and finally, a critical review of the existing body of knowledge on green retrofitting has been conducted. It is found that there has been no research conducted till to date on identifying the success factors for successful green retrofitting implementation.  


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