Façade refurbishment of existing office buildings: Do conventional energy-saving interventions always work?

Journal of Building Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 135-143

  Pomponi, Francesco ^a   Farr, Eric R P ^b   Piroozfar, Poorang ^a   Gates, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b New School of Architecture and Design   (United States)

Author keywords

Building energy simulation; Building performance; Fa ade refurbishment; Office buildings; Office refurbishment; Sustainable retrofit

Indexed keywords

CARBON FOOTPRINT; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; BUILDING ORIENTATION; BUILDING PERFORMANCE; CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; EXISTING OFFICE BUILDINGS; OFFICE REFURBISHMENT; REFURBISHED OFFICES; SUSTAINABLE RETROFIT;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84937807920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23527102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jobe.2015.07.003     Document Type: Article

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