Whole-building dynamic simulation has been increasingly adopted as a tool to non-
invasively investigate possible strategies to improve energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and …

In the context of sustainable development, energy-saving renovation of existing buildings
can not only effectively reduce energy consumption but also improvement the residential …

Today, about 35% of global energy consumption and related carbon dioxide emissions are
caused by the construction sector. This paper evaluates and compares the life cycle energy …

Climate change mitigation targets have put pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of
cultural heritage buildings. Commonly adopted measures to decrease the greenhouse gas …

Three-dimensional thermal map** provides many benefits for auditing building energy
performance when compared with two-dimensional thermal images that provide only limited …

The protective energy-saving retrofitting (PESR) of heritage buildings (HBs) is one of the
essential aspects of building carbon-dioxide abatement. The present work validates and …

Energy use in the building sector represents an important amount of the total energy
consumption. During the past decade there is an increasing attention in energy-efficient …

Sustainable upgrades include actual case studies with before and after retrofit results, case
studies with simulated results and use of computer systems to predict energy savings based …

This study evaluates three listed farmhouses in Ørland Municipality which are going to be
relocated and rehabilitated according to current Norwegian standards and requirements …

There is an increasing need for energy-efficient windows; however, these windows can have
high embodied impacts and can be costly. This has not been thoroughly analyzed and the …