Conference proceeding
Environmental, Social, and Economic Benefits of Buildings Energy Retrofit Projects: A Case Study in Iran's Construction Industry
CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH CONGRESS 2020: INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY, pp 693-701
01 Jan 2020
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Energy consumption is rising worldwide and the building sector is responsible for a large portion of it. One of the most effective ways to improve the energy efficiency of buildings is known as building energy retrofitting. However, selection of an optimum combination of energy-saving measures from a great number of possible combinations to perform building energy retrofitting process is a complicated and time-consuming task. This study aims to propose a simulation-based multi-objective optimization method that simultaneously improves environmental, economic, and social aspects of buildings. This model guides the stakeholders of the building industry through decision-making process of building energy retrofit that enables them to achieve the best tradeoff among objective function. After the optimization process, final combinations of retrofitting strategies are obtained and compared with the existing building. Final results demonstrate that performing building energy retrofit in the case study building significantly improves the predefined objective functions for this case study.
Metrics
Details
- Title
- Environmental, Social, and Economic Benefits of Buildings Energy Retrofit Projects: A Case Study in Iran's Construction Industry
- Creators
- Kaveh Mirzaei - Univ Tehran, Coll Engn, Sch Civil Engn, Tehran, IranAmir Safari - Univ Tehran, Coll Engn, Sch Civil Engn, Tehran, IranSaeed Jalilzadeh - Univ Tehran, Coll Engn, Sch Civil Engn, Tehran, IranFarzad Mostafazadeh - Univ Tehran, Coll Engn, Sch Civil Engn, Tehran, IranMehdi Tavakolan - Univ Tehran, Coll Engn, Sch Civil Engn, Tehran, IranMahsa Safari - Drexel University
- Contributors
- M ElAsmar (Editor)P Tang (Editor)D Grau (Editor)
- Publication Details
- CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH CONGRESS 2020: INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY, pp 693-701
- Conference
- CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH CONGRESS 2020: INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY
- Publisher
- Amer Soc Civil Engineers
- Number of pages
- 9
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Institute for Energy and the Environment (IExE)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000652183800075
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85096902812
- Other Identifier
- 991019170592104721
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Construction & Building Technology
- Engineering, Civil
- Green & Sustainable Science & Technology