Reprint

Environmental and Economic Evaluations of Building Energy Retrofits

Edited by
July 2022
152 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-4551-6 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-4552-3 (PDF)

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Environmental and Economic Evaluations of Building Energy Retrofits that was published in

Chemistry & Materials Science
Engineering
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Physical Sciences
Summary

This book comprises six papers published in the Special Issue “Environmental and Economic Evaluations of Building Energy Retrofits”. The six papers each adopt different perspectives in investigating building energy retrofit practices in Hong Kong, Poland, the Netherlands, Finland, and Italy. The target of the studies includes campus buildings, renovation options for modernist housing estates, green building certification schemes, practitioners’ views and practices, and energy system performance.

Format
  • Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
building energy performance; building energy retrofits; green building certification; transaction costs; agency theory; incentives; facility management; KPI; refurbishment; renovation; retrofit; survey; building energy system optimization; renewable energy retrofit; life cycle emission; building energy retrofitting; building information modelling (BIM); energy performance evaluation; BREEAM-NL; energy transition; RACI matrix; LCOH; life-cycle cost; heating; cooling; heat pump; fossil fuel; biomass; greenhouse gas; architecture; “Renovation Wave”; energy-efficiency; CO2 emissions; well-being