Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
Title | Impact of co-benefits on the assessment of energy related building renovation with a nearly-zero energy target |
Publication Type | Papers in International Journals |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Ferreira M., Almeida, Manuela G., and Rodrigues A. |
Abstract | The reduction of the energy consumption and carbon emissions in the building sector is an important target for actions to mitigate the climate changes and different actions are being carried out to promote a transition to a low carbon built environment. However, present standards are mainly focused on new buildings which may result counter-productive in existing ones, due to their technical, functional and economic constraints. One of the most common problems in the current way of assessing building renovation scenarios is that only energy savings and cost are considered, disregarding additional benefits. Many studies, based on real cases, have already highlighted the relevance of these so-called co-benefits, which can be felt at the building level (and therefore they should be considered in the definition of the renovation measures) and also at the level of society. The present investigation has been developed under the scope of IEA EBC Annex 56 project, and a method to integrate co-benefits in the evaluation of the renovation scenarios towards both the nearly-zero emissions and the nearly-zero energy objectives is proposed. It has been applied to case-studies from several European countries and based on subsequent findings recommendations for policy makers and professional owners are presented. |
Journal | Energy and Buildings |
Date Published | 2017-07-24 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
ISSN | 0378-7788 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.07.066 |
Keywords | Building renovation, Carbon emission reduction, Co-benefits, Energy Efficiency, Life cycle costs, Nearly-zero emissions, Nearly-zero energy, Optimization |
Rights | restrictedAccess |
Peer reviewed | yes |
Status | published |
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt