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Retrofitting the Built Environment - An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Energy Systems (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Retrofitting the Built Environment - An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Energy Systems (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The building sector exerts huge pressure on the built and natural
environment and despite significant efforts to minimise the
consequences, the International Energy Agency submitted that, by
2050, emissions related to buildings could double. However, in the
building sector, significant improvement in energy use and
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved, given the
potential to do this at no cost, using new technology. Since most
buildings that exist now will still exist in 2050, the greatest
energy savings can be made through refurbishment. In the future,
legislation on carbon usage, as well as innovative technologies and
knowledge, will trigger aggressive emission reductions in
buildings, and this will compel installers of retrofit options to
consider embodied emissions in order to achieve the best-value
retrofit plan.This book, in response to the growing environmental
importance of retrofit options, describes the development of a
powerful decision support system, detailing both theoretical and
practical insights, for the evaluation of environmentally and
economically optimal retrofit options for non-domestic buildings.
The chapters within it discuss engineering, energy, environment and
economics in the context of climate change and sustainability,
while a methodological framework of a decision support system is
used to analyse a range of building energy retrofit options. The
theoretical developments provided in this book can be transferred
to other industries beyond the built environment and will be useful
to researchers, energy systems engineers, architects, building
energy managers, supply chain and procurement managers,
sustainability managers and policy makers.
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