Rationale for Low-Carbon Housing Design
Developing a decision support framework for low carbon housing design and delivery in the UK
... relatively low level has proved successful in raising standards in the medium ...the Housing Corporation to increase standards of sustainability to Eco-homes ‘Very ...
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Achieving Low Carbon Social Housing Through Innovation
... current low-level of sustainable housing refurbishment in the UK this should increase the speed of uptake of innovative technologies and support the UK in achieving lower carbon emissions associated ...
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Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators
... in low-carbon transitions is in the retrofit process ...their housing stock: ‘The schemes that we got 76% external funding for to deliver biomass are also eligible for the Renewable Heat ...use ...
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Design for Flexibility in Low Carbon Offices
... optimistic design modelling that underestimates internal heat gains combined with changes in building practices that have sought to tackle heat loss in winter may cause significant problems in future with rising ...
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A study of fuel poverty and low-carbon synergies in social housing
... social housing tenants, combined with basic energy modelling of the individual dwellings (using the Tarbase model) to estimate the carbon emissions of that ...social housing in the UK makes it ...
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Exploring discourses of decarbonisation: the social construction of low carbon housing
... of low carbon housing emerges as a central theme of all three ...presents low carbon living as broadly desirable, with little contestation of the need for emissions reductions in the ...
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Low carbon housing: lessons from Elm Tree Mews
... new housing to demonstrate how they will assure the actual performance of the product they ...detailed design of the superstructure system could have exposed the impact of actual timber fraction and ensured ...
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Thermal Performance of Low-carbon Prefabricated Timber Housing in the UK
... different housing typologies were ...improve housing conditions but the overall well-being of occupants was not adequately taken into consideration and this study will examine summertime high temperature in ...
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Low carbon housing: lessons from Elm Tree Mews
... on carbon of immersion heater use may have been ...very low space and water heating loads ...of low carbon housing, who are faced with a set of problems about which there is little ...
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Low-carbon retrofits in social housing: interaction with occupant behaviour
... social housing retrofit, the retrofit can disrupt the household routine and enable a new routine or practice to ...social housing households, although the Retrofit Reality project was at the time one of the ...
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Design of low/zero carbon buildings learning
... Water: SUDS EPC Rating: B There are several factors that contribute toward the decision to mechanically ventilate the main teaching spaces. Firstly, classroom spaces are fairly deep plan and there is little scope for ...
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China’s Policy Design on Low-Carbon Economy
... promote low-carbon economy in China. Low- carbon economy system should be viewed as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS), exploration of its constitute elements and operation mechanisms should must ...
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The Design and Economics of Low Carbon Fuel Standards
... fuels’ carbon intensities. CI assignments represent the carbon-equivalent emissions of producing a ...of carbon emissions due to changes in land use (Witcover et ...large carbon releases ...
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CARbon DIoxide for the treatment of Febrile seizures: rationale, feasibility, and design of the CARDIF study
... a low- pressure can (Figure 1) achieves the required increase of endtidal pCO 2 , we tested the device in a respiratory model and in a human adult volunteer (Figures 2 & ...
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The effectiveness of natural ventilation design in low cost housing
... aware, low cost houses and flats are built to accommodate those who have low and medium income with prices as low as RM 25,000 and ...in housing its people in better living ...
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Analysis and Design of Monolithic Domes for Low Cost Housing
... and design, Monolithic Concrete Dome, Energy efficiency, Low cost ...to design urban life spaces in accordance’s to the needs of modern ...for low cost housing in India where a large ...
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Low carbon retrofit : attitudes and readiness within the social housing sector
... social housing sector is aware of sustainable retrofit as an ...social housing are not made in a ...social housing providers to engage with the sustainable retrofit ...
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Design and Development of Low carbon Logistics in Culture Function
... a low-carbon logistics concept, low-carbon logistics strengthen ...of low- carbon logistics of low-carbon technologies and low carbon concept, so harm ...
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Modelling-based low carbon retrofit house design
... that low carbon building design follows a route from firstly reducing internal heat loads, then passive design, using efficient service systems, and integrating renewable energy supply (Jones ...
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Governing and governed by practices: Exploring interventions in low-carbon housing policy and practice
... of low-carbon housing and interventions in practice? The first challenge, working outwards from the specific practice of interest, is to 'map the system' and delimit the network of ...the ...
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