Indirect Effects of High-Performance Buildings at Household and Community Level: A Systematic Literature Review

Lorenza Pistore, Francesca Tintinaglia, Roberta Pernetti, Pietro Stivanello and Wilmer Pasut ()
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Lorenza Pistore: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 30172 Venice, Italy
Francesca Tintinaglia: Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, 56126 Trieste, Italy
Roberta Pernetti: Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Pietro Stivanello: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 30172 Venice, Italy
Wilmer Pasut: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 30172 Venice, Italy

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: Towards a carbon-neutral society, the building sector has a pivotal role with still a great potential for improvement. A new generation of buildings is rising but, to set a more ambitious shift in the paradigm and to fully justify the additional efforts (technological and economic) needed to fill the gap between net zero and plus energy performances, it is essential to consider not only the direct effects, but also all the indirect impacts. However, research conducted in the last decade solely focuses on the direct effects, mainly energy savings, while the indirect impacts neither have a clear identity nor terminology and a defined list of the impacts and methodologies for their quantification is still missing. With these premises, a systematic literature review on the current state of the art was performed in this work, with the aim of (i) investigating the heterogeneous terminology used for such indirect effects, (ii) identifying a final potential list of impacts both at the household and at the community level and (iii) their macro-categorizations, and (iv) exploring the current implemented methodologies and indicators for an economic quantification. As a final result of the analysis, the authors propose a unique terminology for addressing the indirect effects of high-performance buildings. This paper sets the needed basis and common ground for future research in this field, meant to economically quantify the indirect effects in the building sector.

Keywords: indirect effects; co-benefits; multiple benefits; co-impacts; high-performance buildings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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