Regulations corroborate the importance of retrofitting existing building stocks or constructing
new energy-efficient districts. There is, thus, a need for modeling tools to evaluate energy …

Home energy retrofit has been a publicly-funded policy in many countries since the 1990s.
Government motivations have spanned from combating energy poverty to climate action and …

Despite the global call for a paradigm shift towards new environmentally conscious urban
planning, little has changed in practice, especially in hot climatic regions. This paper helps …

Earth has always been used by man to build his habitat. Until the middle of the twentieth
century, it was the most used building material with stone and wood. After the Second World …

This work studies the effect on Embodied Energy (EE) of concrete when Ordinary Portland
Cement (OPC) is partially substituted with natural Pozzolanic Volcanic Ash (VA) at the …

The selection of building envelope components has a high impact on all the lifecycle phases
of a building, from the environmental and energy perspectives, and plays a significant role in …

The global challenge of large-scale climate change mitigation requires action also in the
building and construction sector. From a life cycle perspective, and considering the …

To meet the rapid-growing demand for electricity in Kuwait, utility planners need to be
informed on the energy consumption to implement energy efficiency measures to manage …

The residential building sector is a substantial contributor to energy use in Australia. In
existing studies, life cycle energy (LCE) of residential buildings is seldom evaluated from the …

Consideration of environmental impacts caused by buildings with the aim of reducing
environmental loads has become a high priority for the construction sector. Since the …