Multi-story apartment buildings, also known as multi-family or multi-unit residential buildings,
represent the largest share of newly constructed, residential floor area in Norway, Sweden …

Abstract The European Unions' ambition for the construction sector is to be carbon neutral
by 2030 for new construction. Since 2021, all new buildings in the EU should have been …

Abstract The European Union introduced the concept of nearly zero energy buildings with
the recast of the European Building Directive, requiring Member States to define nearly zero …

Experimental and theoretical investigations have been carried out on the first large scale
solar assisted ground source heat pump (SAGSHP) for heating and cooling of a village in …

The current target to decrease the energy consumption of buildings is important as the
residential sector consumes a significant part of the energy over the energy chain. Another …

This study is a manifold energetic and financial comparison of various heating systems. The
examined building is a well-insulated building of 100 m 2 area located in Athens (Greece) …

We proposed a hybrid heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system that
integrates a solar thermal collector and a radiative cooling panel as a heat source and a …

Recent intensive eco-city development in China has been accompanied by rising
enthusiasm for environmental sustainability indicators. Whilst there are calls for the …

This paper presents experimental investigations on a combined solar and ground source
heat pump (SGHP) system for a single-family house. The SGHP system was installed at the …

Following the invasion of Ukraine and the associated energy policy tensions with Russia,
the EU began looking at how it could replace Russian energy sources. One of the proposed …