Environmental and Climate Technologies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
28(1)
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024
Abstract
To
achieve
climate
neutrality
by
2050,
decarbonizing
the
building
sector
is
crucial,
as
it
currently
contributes
36
%
of
greenhouse
gas
emissions
in
Europe.
Monitoring
decarbonization
progress
essential
for
evaluating
our
trajectory
towards
long-term
goals,
facilitating
informed
decision-making.
However,
monitoring
this
issue
unfeasible
due
to
a
lack
real
data.
Despite
challenges
data
gathering,
directives
like
Infrastructure
Spatial
Information
Europe
(INSPIRE)
and
Energy
Performance
Buildings
Directive
(EPBD)
promote
open
accessibility.
overcome
barrier,
paper
suggests
using
georeferencing
automated
cross-referencing
obtain
monitor
effectively.
This
approach
materializes
proposal
national-scale
Urban
Building
Model
(UBEM)
Spain,
which
leverages
from
Certificates
(EPC)
potentially
Digital
Logbooks
(DBL)
enhance
it.
The
study
demonstrates
considerable
potential
approach,
not
only
characterizing
energy
performance
Spanish
buildings
based
on
location,
type,
age
but
also
estimating
consumption,
carbon
dioxide
emissions,
renovation
progress,
assessing
savings,
identifying
energy-inefficient
segments.
Finally,
compares
information
obtained
proposed
model
with
set
indicators
EPBD
recast
new
national
plans,
concluding
that
UBEM
manages
provide
collect
29
and,
when
combined
DBL,
would
be
able
59.
framework
holds
promise
replication
other
MS,
offering
valuable
insights
into
European
stock.
Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
17(6), С. 2513 - 2513
Опубликована: Март 13, 2025
Due
to
urban
expansion
and
limited
heat
sources,
the
heating
capacity
of
supply
stations
is
inadequate
meet
growing
demand.
In
current
stations,
from
primary
network
generally
conveyed
secondary
solely
via
plate
exchangers,
resulting
in
return
water
temperature
being
as
high
50
°C,
with
a
substantial
amount
recoverable
waste
resources.
this
paper,
case
study
station
insufficient
Beijing
conducted
propose
supplemental
systems
using
vapor-compression
pumps
absorption
further
extract
network.
Through
TRNSYS
platform,
simulation
models
for
both
were
developed.
Then,
based
on
bilevel
optimization
method,
design
scheme
operational
strategy
co-optimized
objective
minimizing
lifecycle
cost.
The
performance
two
was
compared
perspectives
energy
consumption,
economy,
additional
footprint,
regional
applicability.
results
indicate
that
consumption
pump
system
(VCSHS)
0.85%
higher
than
(ASHS),
supplementary
3500
kW.
initial
cost
VCSHS
approximately
1
million
CNY
lower
ASHS,
while
costs
are
nearly
identical,
making
more
cost-effective
overall.
Additionally,
footprint
new
equipment
30%
smaller
ASHS.
Compared
cold
regions,
it
economical
adopt
ASHSs
severe
regions
due
their
price.
Remote Sensing,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
17(7), С. 1247 - 1247
Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025
This
study
presents
an
enhanced
Faster
R-CNN
framework
that
incorporates
elliptical
bounding
boxes
to
significantly
improve
building
detection
in
off-nadir
imagery,
effectively
reducing
severe
geometric
distortions
caused
by
oblique
sensor
angles.
Off-nadir
imagery
enhances
architectural
detail
capture
and
reduces
occlusions,
but
conventional
boxes,
such
as
axis-aligned
rotated
often
fail
localize
buildings
distorted
extreme
perspectives.
We
propose
a
hybrid
method
integrating
for
curved
structures
tilted
buildings,
achieving
more
precise
shape
approximation.
In
addition,
our
model
squeeze-and-excitation
mechanism
refine
feature
representation,
suppress
background
noise,
enhance
object
boundary
alignment,
leading
superior
accuracy.
Experimental
results
on
the
BONAI
dataset
demonstrate
approach
achieves
rate
of
91.96%,
outperforming
(65.75%)
(87.13%)
detecting
irregular
buildings.
By
providing
highly
robust
adaptable
strategy,
establishes
new
standard
accurate
shape-aware
recognition
improving
distorted,
rotated,
structures.
Abstract
The
European
Commission
has
initiated
efforts
to
establish
indicator
frameworks
for
monitoring
building
renovation
policies
and
the
decarbonization
progress
of
stock,
be
developed
by
EU
Member
States.
chapter
suggests
that
use
emerging
technologies
can
improve
quality
availability
data
this
purpose,
focusing
on
two
specific
whose
potential
is
explored
case
Spain.
These
are,
one
hand,
georeferencing
automated
cross-referencing
existing
data,
and,
other,
Digital
Building
Logbook
(DBL).
results
study
show
applications
include
calculating
solar
estimating
energy
production,
consumption,
emissions
using
Urban
Energy
Models
(UBEMs).
UBEM,
applied
Spain,
enables
collection
previously
unavailable
indicators,
improving
mainly
in
subjects
‘An
overview
general
characteristics
national
stock’
stock’.
Examining
feasibility
collecting
indicators
through
DBL
indicates
close
69%
all
necessary
obtained.
However,
challenges
realizing
DBL's
full
involve
undefined
tool
models,
owner
awareness,
funding
uncertainties,
regulatory
alignment,
technical
hurdles
large-scale
implementation.
