Development of a multicriteria tool for optimizing the renovation of buildings

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1386-1394

  Chantrelle, Fanny Pernodet ^a,b   Lahmidi, Hicham ^a   Keilholz, Werner ^a   Mankibi, Mohamed El ^b   Michel, Pierre ^b  

^a Scientific and Technical Center for Building CSTB   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Decision making tool; Energy performance; Genetic algorithm; Multicriteria optimization; Renovation; TRNSYS

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INVESTMENTS; LIFE CYCLE; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION MAKING TOOL; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; RENOVATION; TRNSYS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; CONTROL SYSTEM; COOLING; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY USE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEATING; INVESTMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78650525067     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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