Traditional whole building energy modeling suffers from several factors, including the large number of inputs required to characterize the building, the specificity required to accurately model building materials and components, simplifying assumptions made by underlying simulation algorithms, and the gap between the as-designed and as-built building. Prior work has attempted to mitigate these ...

This article aims to create a theoretical evaluation model based on decision support methods for the residential house construction materials and elements selection. The research and analyses of most of the scientists are invoked on individual elements and materials of the building, which have an impact on different aspects of sustainability. Meanwhile, the integrated model covering all the key...

Mega-projects figure prominently in the arsenal of contemporary city-building strategies. The allure is of a city redefined, placed on the world stage and able to improve services, facilities and revenues. Community attitudes to such projects are often mixed, with fears of gentrification, displacement or loss of existing city character. Although mega-projects are adopted to pursue global ambiti...

BACKGROUND Lung cancer was the second highest absolute cancer incidence globally and the first cause of cancer mortality in 2014. Indoor radon is the second leading risk factor of lung cancer after cigarette smoking among ever smokers and the first among non-smokers. Environmental burden of disease (EBD) attributable to residential radon among non-smokers is critical for identifying threats to ...

In terms of policy, the Ministry of Construction has prepared and issued a Guidelines for Green Ecological Residential Area Construction Elements and Technical, China Ecological Residential Technology Evaluation Manual, Environmental Impact Evaluation Law of the People’s Republic of China and other documents; in practice, economically developed areas combined with their own characteristics have...

Abstract This research is based on the refinement and diversification demand of housing stock quality improving in China. The paper focuses complexity built environment old residential areas, which involves numerous responsibilities rights multi-role cooperation process regeneration. studies application open building theory its derivative theories area regeneration, researches current situation...

This paper presents the methodology for implementation of building typology principles as a tool strategic planning residential stock energy retrofits on municipal level in Serbia. Research was conducted under IEE EPISCOPE (Intelligent Energy Europe EPISCOPE/TABULA project) project with aim developing an adequate creating retrofit management strategies local level. An approach that envisions di...

This paper reports the development of a methodology for identifying and improving occupant behavior in existing residential buildings. In this study, end-use loads were divided into two levels (i.e. main and sub-category), and they were used to deduce corresponding two-level user activities (i.e. general and specific occupant behavior) indirectly. The proposed method is based on three basic dat...

The article is devoted to the research of potential and features application elements agricultural production, as well determine role urban situation in formation new housing estates. Based on analysis scientific sources, existing examples combination identified three main types that affect design clusters structure.
 first type - current dense situation. Works a means segregation various ...

office building, or school, or replace your heating and cooling system, you may want to consider a geothermal heat pump (GHP) system. GHP systems are also known as GeoExchange, ground-source, or water-source heat pumps (as opposed to air-source heat pumps). Regardless of what you call them, energy-efficient geothermal heat pumps are available today for both residential and commercial building a...