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Energy-environmental and cost assessment of a set of strategies for retrofitting a public building toward nearly zero-energy building target
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2017.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to assess an energy retrofit of a building representative of those in public tertiary stock, to improve energy performance toward nearly Zero-Energy Building (nZEB) requirements. The building is located in the campus of the Politecnico di Milano University (Italy). Several hypothetical improvements regarding the building envelope and plants were assessed in terms of energy savings, costs, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The results of the study show that it is possible to reduce primary energy demand and associated emissions up to 40% from the current values by adopting market-available and well-proven technological solutions for retrofit. Moreover, exploiting on-site renewable energy sources, the net energy consumption can be near zero. However, an economic analysis of the application of these technologies has highlighted many critical elements related to the implementation of some solutions. This is particularly true for actions related to the thermal insulation of the building envelope and to the installation of ventilation system with heat recovery. Since nZEB requirements are related to the concept of economic performance, this paper gives useful hints to better understand the viability of many commonly adopted actions and strategies for reaching such targets in building retrofit cases.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Architectural engineering
Nearly Zero-Energy Building
Primary energy
020209 energy
Case study
Geography, Planning and Development
Energy savings
Retrofit strategies
Civil and Structural Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Transportation
02 engineering and technology
Nearly Zero-Energy Building, Retrofit strategies, Energy savings, Case study
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Retrofitting
Renewable Energy
Planning and Development
Zero-energy building
Settore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica Ambientale
Geography
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Energy consumption
Renewable energy
business
Energy-plus-house
Building envelope
Efficient energy use
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....848ae6589ad0cf50c69b852c7866b1d8