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dc.contributor.authorGonzalez Caceres, Alex
dc.contributor.authorRabani, Mehrdad
dc.contributor.authorMartinez, P. A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-20T12:15:37Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-16T11:26:13Z
dc.date.available2020-01-20T12:15:37Z
dc.date.available2020-03-16T11:26:13Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationGonzalez Caceres AG, Rabani M, Martinez. A systematic review of retrofitting tools for residential buildings. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES). 2019;294:1-20en
dc.identifier.issn1755-1307
dc.identifier.issn1755-1307
dc.identifier.issn1755-1315
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/8278
dc.description.abstractRetrofitting of existing buildings offers significant opportunities to reduce global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is considered as one of the main approaches to achieve sustainability in the built environment at a relatively low cost. Although there is a wide range of retrofitting technologies available, methods to identify the most costeffective measures for each project remain a major technical challenge. Numerous projects have been developed worldwide to face this challenge with different approaches; however, many of the tools meet only local objectives, which is why they are unknown in the international arena, showing a limited transfer of knowledge. This review organizes the results under three categories: renovation assessment, financial assessment, and transfer of knowledge. The tools focusing on promoting the renovation of buildings differ in the type of user, for example, the owners, politicians, or investors. The tools dealing with financial assessment suggest different methods to evaluate and calculate the cost savings, construction costs, and return forecasts through retrofit interventions. Other tools comply with the policies that seek to register, evaluate, and characterize the existing buildings. This review provides researchers, construction professionals, and politicians with a better understanding of the advances made to effectively design building retrofitting measures and promote energy conservation as well as the assessment of the building stock for the development of policies. The review shows that many tools have the potential of joining their capabilities, which can create many opportunities for innovation in the retrofitting area.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science;294 (2019) 012035
dc.rightsContent from this work may be used under the terms of theCreativeCommonsAttribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subjectRetrofitting toolsen
dc.subjectResidential buildingsen
dc.subjectGlobal energy useen
dc.subjectGreenhouse gas emissionsen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectAssessmentsen
dc.titleA systematic review of retrofitting tools for residential buildingsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2020-01-20T12:15:37Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/294/1/012035
dc.identifier.cristin1728770
dc.source.journalIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES)


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