, consequently, have implications in the perception of indoor air quality, local thermal comfort, and energy savings. These energy … conditions closer to thermal neutrality, with corresponding energy savings. …

Energy consumption in Spanish school buildings is higher during spring seasons. Thermal inertia of buildings can help … thermal conditions and energy consumption. …

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 …

efficiency of the housing stock. High quality data on the energy efficiency of buildings and their related energy demand is …The UK Government has unveiled an ambitious retrofit programme that seeks significant improvement to the energy … critical to supporting and targeting investment in energy efficiency. Using existing home improvement programmes over the past …

substantially explained by the market value of energy efficiency, as estimated in “Evidence of Rational Market Values for Home … Energy Efficiency,” which appeared in the October 1998 issue of The Appraisal Journal. …

According to this study, residential real estate markets assign to energy-efficient homes an incremental value that … around $25 for every $1 reduction in annual fuel bills. Regression analysis of American Housing Survey data confirms this … hypothesis for national and metropolitan area samples, attached and detached housing, and detached housing subsamples using a …

renovation of social housing, and to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of their application for energy renovations in … social housing organizations from eight EU countries, and a series of 14 interviews with energy renovation experts from ten … to indicate the main characteristics of the current energy renovations carried out by European social housing …