Embodied Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) comparison of residential building retrofit measures in Atlanta

A Shirazi, B Ashuri - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Studies showed that up to 30% of a building's life cycle energy and emissions are
associated with the embodied phase and this number could increase to 50% for energy …

Analysis of Methodology for Scaling up Building Retrofits: Is There a Role for Virtual Energy Audits?—A First Step in Hawai'i, USA

MB Glick, E Peppard, W Meguro - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Energy audits are a time-consuming and expensive initial step in the building retrofit
process. Virtual energy audits purport to be an alternative that remotely identifies energy …

Economics of Campus Sustainability

KS Hodge, J Stewart, L Grella - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of …, 2021 - oxfordre.com
Can sustainability initiatives support positive economics, or are they necessarily cost-
additive? With thousands of colleges and universities across the globe actively pursuing …

[PDF][PDF] Energy and Cost Optimization for Residential Improvement Options

A Shirazi - 2020 - opus.lib.uts.edu.au
US started to implement building energy codes and energy efficiency regulations from
1980s. However, the existing pre-code buildings are still a significant fraction of the nation's …