In today’s world, the significance of energy and energy conservation is a common knowledge. Wind towers can save the … electrical energy used to provide thermal comfort during the warm months of the year, especially during the peak hours. In this … major advantage of wind towers is that they are passive systems requiring no energy for operation. Also, wind towers reduce …

A recent study suggested that buildings globally consume up to 40% of energy and responsible for half of world … phase is identified to consume the highest energy and concrete responsible for the highest embodied energy. The findings … also suggested that building material with lower embodied energy does not necessarily have lower life cycle energy …

Africa (NA) countries cooperation on water and clean energy superhighway as the solution to regional energy challenges, water … shortages, climate change and other environmental problems arising from the current fossil-fuel heavy global energy paradigm … quantitative targets for solutions between the growing water crisis in NA and energy resources (fossil and renewables energies (RE …

sustainability of green building, especially the social sustainability is largely overlooked. Future research opportunities were …

Energy is the building block of modern civilization and a prerequisite for sustainable development. Global energy …. Bangladesh is a developing country in the Southeast Asia, which is one of the lowest per capital energy consuming nation. The … power crisis has become a major constraint to continued economic growth and energy sector of the country is currently facing …

analysis shows an impressive transformation of China׳s energy metabolism determined by the joining of the WTO in 2001. Since … industrial sector, boosting economic labor productivity as well as total energy consumption. India, on the contrary, lags behind … when considering these factors. Looking at changes in the household sector (energy metabolism associated with final …

introduced as an effective method to reduce temperature and energy consumption in cities, its impacts on environmental … sustainability and large-scale non-local effect are inadequately explored. This paper provides a synthetic overview of potential … environmental impacts of reflective materials at a variety of scales, ranging from energy load on a single building to regional …

Many techniques for managing sustainability including sustainable building assessment tools and standards have been … economic aspects of energy efficient building practices. However, these tools have not yet measure energy efficiency index by … involving user satisfaction from adaptive behaviors dependently, which can determine the actual energy consumption versus the …