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The role of economic and policy variables in energy-efficient retrofitting assessment. A stochastic Life Cycle Costing methodology

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Authors:
Edoardo Baldoni,
Silvia Coderoni,
Marco D'Orazio,
Elisa Di Giuseppe,
Roberto Esposti

Energy saving is a major policy objective worldwide and in the EU in particular. Evaluating the convenience of energy-efficient investments, however, is complex. This paper aims to apply stochastic Life Cycle Costing to assess the economic value of energy-efficient building retrofitting investments. The proposed approach investigates how macroeconomic variables affect such an evaluation by explicitly taking into account their interdependent stochastic nature.

Relationships between lean and sustainable construction: Positive impacts of lean practices over sustainability during construction phase

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Authors:
David Carvajal-Arango, Sara Bahamon-Jaramillo, Paula Aristizabal-Monsalve,
Alejandro Vasquez-Hernandez, Luis Fernando Botero Botero

Academicians and professionals in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) field have expressed an increasing interest in sustainability and its application in the development of construction projects, especially with its deemed relationship with lean construction, for the purpose of improving efficiency in the construction processes. Practices framed under the lean philosophy show their potential in reducing environmental, economic, and social impacts during the construction phase, with an increase in the parameters of sustainability in the development of projects.

Urban Efficiency: A Global Survey of Building Energy Efficiency Policies in Cities

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Authors:
Tomoko Takagi,
Ryuichi Horie,
Gregory Trencher,
Yuko Nishida,
Kaoru Nakanishi,
Kanako Okano,
Zoe Sprigings,
Shannon Lawrence,
Eric Ast,
Cristina Paula Miclea,
Peter Graham

A Global Survey of Building Energy Efficiency Policies in Cities is a resource for city officials around the world as they design new policies for building energy efficiency, or review existing ones. The research should help close the evidence gap regarding city-level activity in building energy efficiency. As such, it is designed to be accessible to those working in the field in general, including researchers.

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