The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast imposed on all Member States to establish representative reference buildings as an important step in drawing up a methodology for calculating cost-optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements for buildings and building...

Quantitative thermography is now mostly accepted as a reliable method to measure energy performance of existing buildings, in particular the thermal transmittance U-values of opaque elements. Some researches have been conducted in this field, each presenting a different procedure verified by the...

A district cooling system supplies cooling to a group of buildings in a district. It has been widely used for its high energy and economic performance, especially in Asian and European countries. It is supposed that a district cooling system can achieve good performance when used in the...

Purpose This paper aims to address Passive Design Strategies (PDSs) in the traditional houses of Sabzevar and to assess the adaptation level of these strategies to the climate of the region. Design/methodology/approach Identifying the Sabzevar climate, five samples of traditional houses have...

Purpose Buildings contribute significantly to CO 2 production. They are also subject to considerable taxation based on value. Analysis shows that while similar attributes contribute to both value and CO 2 production, there is only a loose relationship between the two. If we wish to use taxation...

Purpose – This study aims to test whether energy performance effects single-family home sale prices. It also examines whether recommendations for supposedly cost-effective energy efficiency measures, by intervention category (construction, installation or operation/control technical measures),...

Purpose This paper aims to estimate the green premium effect of retrofitted apartments in Bucharest and draw comparisons with international examples. Design/methodology/approach A geo-referenced transaction database including information on whether the property had been retrofitted is utilised....

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the relationship between energy performance and property sale price in the Belfast housing market. How energy efficiency is contributes to sale price and thus appraisal value is of growing concern. The obligatory measurement of energy efficiency in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate “best practice” building strategies and sustainability‐oriented techniques and tools used to assess the energy performance of housing developments. The objective is to propose guidelines that can integrate futures thinking into the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the energy, economic and environmental performance of commercial water heating systems in Hong Kong special administrative region (SAR), China. Design/methodology/approach – The research team contacted 50 facilities managers in Hong Kong,...