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Green roofs have been proposed for sustainable buildings in many countries with different climatic conditions. A state-of-the-art review of green roofs emphasizing current implementations, technologies, and benefits is presented in this paper. Technical and construction aspects of green roofs...
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This paper presents an innovative low-energy district heating (DH) concept based on low-temperature operation. The decreased heating demand from low-energy buildings affects the cost-effectiveness of traditionally-designed DH systems, so we carried out a case study of the annual energy...
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In 2007 the Class 1 project commenced. Originally, 442 dwellings were to be designed and constructed as “low-energy class 1” houses according to requirements set by the Municipality of Egedal/Denmark. This means that the energy consumption is 50% below the existing energy regulations. Sixty...
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The World Energy Council releases the Energy Trilemma Index (ETI) report annually primarily to assess the energy performance of countries worldwide. Nevertheless, the varying preferences of the dimensions in the ETI between the countries are debatable. The objective of this study is weight...
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One of the most important mechanisms to improve the sustainability of each country are monitoring the performance of the industries not only in the energy perspective but also the environmental point of view and setting the improvement goal. This study presents an indicator that can reflect both...
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One of the most important mechanisms to improve the sustainability of each country are monitoring the performance of the industries not only in the energy perspective but also the environmental point of view and setting the improvement goal. This study presents an indicator that can reflect both...
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The World Energy Council releases the Energy Trilemma Index (ETI) report annually primarily to assess the energy performance of countries worldwide. Nevertheless, the varying preferences of the dimensions in the ETI between the countries are debatable. The objective of this study is weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040247