Renovating existing buildings is important for achieving global climate targets, necessitating
a comprehensive approach to environmental assessment. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a …

Uncertainties in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of buildings affect the environmental
performance benchmarking and can lead to incorrect decision-making. Reducing …

Hemp-based building envelopes have gained significant popularity in developed countries,
and now the trend of constructing houses with hemp-clay blocks is spreading to developing …

Aiming at utilizing straw, garbage, domestic sewage and other biomass waste resources in
rural areas, this study designed a rural biomass wastes energy conversion system (BWs) …

Building energy retrofit (BER) is one of the priority tasks of China's '14th Five-Year Building
Energy Efficiency and Green Building Development Plan'. The number of BER projects has …

To realize renewable and self-sustainable energy supply in island region, based on
geographical characteristics with abundant renewable resources, an optimal model for …

Building renovation must be attractive and profitable regarding sustainability criteria to be a
competitive alternative to demolishment and construction of new buildings. This study …

Building renovation is urgently required to reduce the environmental impact associated with
the building stock. Typically, building renovation is performed by envelope insulation and/or …

The ongoing energy crisis in Europe is highlighting the role of the building sector in energy
consumption, particularly in countries like Spain, where 90.4% of existing dwellings lack …

Construction projects using emerging bio-based materials have been realized over the past
ten to fifteen years within Europe. Bio-based buildings utilize properties of natural materials …