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Socio-economic performance of a novel solar photovoltaic/loop-heat-pipe heat pump water heating system in three different climatic regions

Zhang, Xingxing; Shen, Jingchun; Xu, Peng; Zhao, Xudong; … - In: Applied Energy 135 (2014) C, pp. 20-34

was utilised to predict the system’s energy performance throughout a year in the three climatic regions. A life …

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Energy consumption in schools – A review paper

Dias Pereira, Luísa; Raimondo, Daniela; Corgnati, … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 40 (2014) C, pp. 911-922

responsibility. Therefore energy performance in this type of building is of great importance. …

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Towards measurement and verification of energy performance under the framework of the European directive for energy performance of buildings

Burman, Esfand; Mumovic, Dejan; Kimpian, Judit - In: Energy 77 (2014) C, pp. 153-163

Directive 2002/91/EC of the European Parliament and Council on the Energy Performance of Buildings has led to major … developments in energy policies followed by the EU Member States. The national energy performance targets for the built environment … methodology to calculate energy performance of buildings under standardised operating conditions. Overwhelming evidence suggests …

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Explaining the contract terms of energy performance contracting in China: The importance of effective financing

Li, Yan; Qiu, Yueming; Wang, Yi David - In: Energy Economics 45 (2014) C, pp. 401-411

Energy service company (“ESCO”) uses Energy Performance Contracting (“EPC”) to provide energy-saving services to its …

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Experimental and numerical investigation of urban street canyons to evaluate the impact of green roof inside and outside buildings

Ouldboukhitine, Salah-Eddine; Belarbi, Rafik; Sailor, … - In: Applied Energy 114 (2014) C, pp. 273-282

In the present work, an experimental urban canyon (scale 1:10) with 4cm concrete wall thickness and full scale green roof was used to evaluate the impact of green roof inside and outside the buildings. The platform was equally used to validate a coupled heat and mass transfer model for green...

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Automated metamodel generation for Design Space Exploration and decision-making – A novel method supporting performance-oriented building design and retrofitting

Geyer, Philipp; Schlüter, Arno - In: Applied Energy 119 (2014) C, pp. 537-556

Design and retrofitting of buildings for high performance in terms of low consumption of energy and exergy requires the examination of a large number of design variants, including time-consuming simulation. Metamodels (surrogate models) based on the Response Surface Method (RSM) can solve this...

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Adaptation of the cost optimal level calculation method of Directive 2010/31/EU considering the influence of Turkish national factors

Ganiç, Neşe; Yılmaz, A. Zerrin - In: Applied Energy 123 (2014) C, pp. 94-107

optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements. Besides EU Member States, this EU directive influence candidate … countries correspondingly. In order to establish national calculation methodologies for cost optimal energy performance levels …

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Dynamic energy performance analysis: Case study for energy efficiency retrofits of hospital buildings

Buonomano, Annamaria; Calise, Francesco; Ferruzzi, Gabriele - In: Energy 78 (2014) C, pp. 555-572

stakeholders involved in hospital energy refurbishments, based on an integrated approach which combines dynamic energy performance …

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Energy, economic, and environmental performance of commercial water heating systems

Ming To, Wai; Kit Hung, Hon; Leung Chung, Wai - In: Journal of Facilities Management 12 (2014) 4, pp. 353-367

provides insight on the energy performance but it also evaluates the economic and environmental performance of water heating …

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Current market development of energy performance contracting

Lee, Pan; Ip Lam, Tsun; Jye Dzeng, Ren - In: Journal of Property Investment & Finance 32 (2014) 4, pp. 371-395

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current market development of Energy Performance Contracting …

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