Browsing TKD - Institutt for bygg- og energiteknikk by Subject "Sustainability"

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    • Critical review of implementation of sustainability in higher education 

      Hjelseth, Eilif (Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2017)
      Sustainability is a widely used term in titles and descriptions of courses in higher education within design and product development. There is a general agreement in the society about the importance of sustainability, and ...

    • Hygrothermal performance, energy use and embodied emissions in straw bale buildings 

      Koh, Chuen Hon (Alex); Kraniotis, Dimitrios (Energy and Buildings;Volume 245, 15 August 2021, 111091, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-16)
      Straw bale is a low embodied energy and technically acceptable thermal insulation material. As per today, there is a lack of standardized technical data on utilizing straw bale in building construction, while the existing ...

    • Numerical analysis of the performance of green façades 

      Poupart, Frédéric; Martine, Oda; Christiansen, Sundsdal Marianne; Melhus, Ole; Chaudhuri, Arnab (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings;No. 176: Proceedings of The 61st SIMS Conference on Simulation and Modelling, SIMS 2020, Conference object, 2021-03-03)
      This study reports a numerical analysis of the performance of green façades in different geographical locations and seasonal conditions. A mathematical model from a previous study is implemented and combined with the ...

    • Numerical analysis of the performance of green façades 

      Poupart, Frédéric; Sundsdal, Oda Martine; Christiansen, Marianne; Melhus, Ole; Chaudhuri, Arnab (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings;No. 176, Conference object, 2021)
      This study reports a numerical analysis of the performance of green façades in different geographical locations and seasonal conditions. A mathematical model from a previous study is implemented and combined with the ...

    • A systematic review of retrofitting tools for residential buildings 

      Gonzalez Caceres, Alex; Rabani, Mehrdad; Martinez, P. A. (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science;294 (2019) 012035, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Retrofitting 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 ...