The construction industry is an enormous economic sector with a profound economic, social, and environmental impact. building responsible for one-third of total energy consumption and, notably, activities account 39% the carbon emissions in world. Therefore, nowadays, promotion green concepts essential all countries. Typically, sustainability level evaluated by specified certification systems t...

Evidence is accumulating that indicates air quality problems in residential and commercial buildings are nearly always associated with inadequacies in building design and methods of operation. Thus, the very systems depended on to control the indoor environment can become indirect sources of contamination if diligence is not exercised at each stage of a building's life: a) planning and design, ...

With the availability of the many energy efficient technologies, significant reduction in energy consumption can be expected through retrofit of existing buildings. To achieve a cost-effective retrofit, however, a good understanding of the building system is necessary. In this study, two office buildings under retrofit in the Philadelphia area have been evaluated based on measured data and simu...

Material stocks are an important part of the social metabolism. Owing to long service lifetimes of stocks, they not only shape resource flows during construction, but also during use, maintenance, and at the end of their useful lifetime. This makes them an important topic for sustainable development. In this work, a model of stocks and flows for nonmetallic minerals in residential buildings, ro...

Existing detailed simulation methods generally address the energy use of individual buildings, through the specification of its fabric, ventilation, fuelled services and occupancy patterns. Current concerns in developing sustainable built environments however often focus on groups or communities of buildings. In the Virtual Village (VIRVIL) project, means of extending detailed simulation method...