Sustainable building standards, codes and certification systems: The status quo and future directions in Saudi Arabia

B Jamoussi, A Abu-Rizaiza, A AL-Haij - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sustainable building practices are a response to environmental issues. Businesses and
industries are assessing how their activities affect the environment. The architecture …

Life cycle energy analysis of buildings: A systematic review

D Dahiya, B Laishram - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Buildings consume a significant amount of energy and resources during all stages of their
life cycle, causing enormous environmental impacts. Life cycle energy analysis is a holistic …

Towards the goal of zero-carbon building retrofitting with variant application degrees of low-carbon technologies: Mitigation potential and cost-benefit analysis for a …

Y Liu, S Xue, X Guo, B Zhang, X Sun, Q Zhang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
China's building industry urgently needs to accelerate the deployment of zero-carbon
building technologies and zero-carbon project practices to facilitate the net-zero target. This …

Do all roads lead to Rome? A comparison of knowledge-based, data-driven, and physics-based surrogate models for performance-based early design

MZ Esteghamati, MM Flint - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
A performance-based early design must assess the life cycle performance of a sizable
design space at low computational cost and limited data. This paper evaluates the relative …

Parametric-based multi-objective optimization workflow: Daylight and energy performance study of hospital building in Algeria

S Besbas, F Nocera, N Zemmouri, MA Khadraoui… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Daylight is an important factor that significantly contributes to patients' healing, with a
reduction in the length of stay in the hospital. It can strongly affect energy consumption …

Evaluating fire resistance of timber columns using explainable machine learning models

MZ Esteghamati, T Gernay, S Banerji - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The global attention to using timber products as sustainable construction material urges
careful assessment of their performance against different hazards, particularly fire. However …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon assessment of building shell options for eco self-build community housing through the integration of building energy modelling and life cycle analysis …

P Newberry, P Harper, J Norman - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
To achieve the UK's net-zero carbon transition by 2050, new homes need to be designed to
high energy efficiency standards and minimise life cycle carbon emissions. This study …

Integration of energy simulations and life cycle assessment in building refurbishment: An affordability comparison of thermal insulation materials through a new …

F Scrucca, D Palladino - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction have become two of the most important
issues to address in fighting climate change. Focused strategies have been implemented …

Actual sources of life cycle impacts: Elementary processes and flows causing environmental impacts for a typical Brazilian building

F Belizario-Silva, VM John - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a valuable tool to enhance the environmental
performance of buildings. However, the increasing number of impact categories required by …

Energy optimization for fenestration design: evidence-based retrofitting solution for office buildings in the UAE

Y Abdou, YK Kim, A Abdou, R Anabtawi - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the prevalent use of large glazings, particularly in office buildings, offices receive an
abundance of light and are among the largest consumers of electricity. Moreover, in an …