Cities: The core of climate change mitigation

Z Mi, D Guan, Z Liu, J Liu, V Viguié, N Fromer… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cities, the core of the global climate change mitigation and strategic low-carbon
development, are shelters to more than half of the world population and responsible for …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable, green, or smart? Pathways for energy-efficient healthcare buildings

BVF Silva, JB Holm-Nielsen, S Sadrizadeh… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Buildings' energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are a major global concern.
Healthcare buildings, being crucial to society, pose particular challenges due to their round …

Drivers, barriers and enablers to end-of-life management of solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage systems: A systematic literature review

HK Salim, RA Stewart, O Sahin, M Dudley - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are a low-cost form of renewable energy
technology that has had an exponential rate of uptake globally in the last decade. However …

Building green retrofit in China: Policies, barriers and recommendations

G Liu, X Li, Y Tan, G Zhang - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Green retrofit is an effective way of improving the performance of existing buildings to
achieve low energy consumption and low carbon emission. To realize a successful building …

Government championed strategies to overcome the barriers to public building energy efficiency retrofit projects

M Alam, PXW Zou, RA Stewart, E Bertone… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the barriers and co** strategies for retrofitting government
buildings for energy efficiency is essential for the success of these types of complex …

Hospital wastewater treatment scenario around the globe

A Kumari, NS Maurya, B Tiwari - Current developments in Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewaters generated from hospitals contain pharmaceuticals residues, pathogens,
chemical reagents, radionuclide, and other harmful matter. The wastewater characteristics …

Energy-environmental-economic assessment of green retrofit policy to achieve 2050 carbon-neutrality in South Korea: Focused on residential buildings

J An, D Jung, K Jeong, C Ji, T Hong, J Lee, S Kapp… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
To achieve carbon emission reduction target (CERT) by 2030 and carbon-neutrality in 2050,
it is important to actively reduce the emission gap in the private building sector. However, the …

Weighting of indoor environment quality parameters for occupant satisfaction and energy efficiency

S Roumi, F Zhang, RA Stewart, M Santamouris - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable retrofit can increase a building's performance and extend its lifetime. Common
sustainable retrofit guides usually ignore the building's indoor environmental quality (IEQ) …

[HTML][HTML] Energy efficiency in residential and non-residential buildings: Short-term macroeconomic implications

R Slabe-Erker, M Dominko, A Bayar, B Majcen… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Investments in energy efficiency are vital for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
given that changes in the structure of the main energy sources cannot be expected in the …

Attention and sentiment of Chinese public toward green buildings based on Sina Weibo

X Liu, W Hu - Sustainable cities and society, 2019 - Elsevier
Energy conservation and consumption reduction in the field of construction are the keys to
achieving the target global temperature growth of the Paris Agreement. However, the current …