Integrated life cycle assessment and thermodynamic simulation of a public building’s envelope renovation: Conventional vs. Passivhaus proposal

Jorge Sierra-Pérez, Beatriz Rodríguez-Soria, Jesús Boschmonart-Rives and Xavier Gabarrell

Applied Energy, 2018, vol. 212, issue C, 1510-1521

Abstract: The need to improve the energy efficiency of buildings has introduced the concept of nearly zero-energy buildings into European energy policies. Moreover, a percentage of the building stock will have to be renovated annually to attain high energy performance. Conventional passive interventions in buildings are focused on increasing the insulation of the building envelope to increase its energy efficiency during the operating phase. Often, however, intervention practices imply the incorporation of embodied energy into the building materials and increase the associated environmental impacts.

Keywords: Zero-energy building; ENERPHIT; Insulation materials; Embodied energy; Operating energy; Cork (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.101

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