Building energy-consumption status worldwide and the state-of-the-art technologies for zero-energy buildings during the past decade

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 128, Issue , 2016, Pages 198-213

  Cao, Xiaodong ^a   Dai, Xilei ^a   Liu, Junjie ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Building energy; Climate change; Energy savings; Renewable energy; Zero energy building (ZEB)

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SPACE HEATING;

BUILDING ENERGY; BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY; BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; ZERO ENERGY BUILDING (ZEB);

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 84978154662     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.06.089     Document Type: Article

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