A Review of Energy Efficiency Interventions in Public Buildings

Energies, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(17), С. 6329 - 6329

Опубликована: Авг. 31, 2023

This research provides a comprehensive exploration of energy efficiency dynamics in non-residential public buildings such as schools, swimming pools, hospitals, and museums. Recognizing the distinct consumption patterns each building type, study accentuates unique challenges they present, with particular focus on continuous intensive demands hospitals unparalleled needs pools. Through an extensive review various case studies, unveils prevailing trends, highlighting role metrics assessing inherent these face ensuring uniformity direct comparability. A core element this analysis emphasizes dual nature technical retrofitting, categorizing interventions into passive active measures. The delves sustainability imperatives interventions, exploring economic motivations underpinning retrofit decisions, intricate relationship between advanced technological solutions behavioral tendencies operators users. Additionally, uncovers influence external determinants climatic factors government policies shaping buildings. In synthesizing findings, paper offers insightful recommendations, emphasizing need for integrated approach that harmonizes innovations informed operational habits, aiming to optimize

Язык: Английский

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Sustainable, green, or smart? Pathways for energy-efficient healthcare buildings

Sustainable Cities and Society, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 100, С. 105013 - 105013

Опубликована: Окт. 27, 2023

Buildings' energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are a major global concern. Healthcare buildings, being crucial to society, pose particular challenges due their round-the-clock operation stringent hygiene standards. This paper comprehensively reviews existing literature promote energy-efficient comfortable healthcare buildings. The research explores both passive measures, such as orientation, materials, daylight, active including Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning systems, management, renewable resources. emphasizes the critical role of user behavior in conserving outlines how factors like building size, hours, climate can impact resource consumption. It highlights importance solar power prominent source. offers design retrofitting options enhance buildings addresses lack on small-scale maintaining balance between comfort reduction, involving diverse stakeholders, exploring benchmarks, automated shading, geothermal sources, local carbon emissions. review aims contribute environmentally responsible socially resilient infrastructure provide insights for future creating

Язык: Английский

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Hospitals’ Energy Efficiency in the Perspective of Saving Resources and Providing Quality Services through Technological Options: A Systematic Literature Review

Energies, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(2), С. 755 - 755

Опубликована: Янв. 9, 2023

The effects of climate change, in combination with the recent energy crisis, have brought efficiency issues hospitals markedly to fore. Hospitals are considered among most energy-intensive buildings, which is why they become a top priority for governments wishing upgrade their efficiency. Given critical nature work and model healthcare provision (nursing cover 24 h per day, 7 days week) it very hard achieve cuts. international literature shows that complex process requires further research. This need covered by present systematic review, captures existing knowledge on monitoring strategies, assessment, upgrading through technology, resources-saving relationship between quality service provision, while also identifying future research considerations potential supporting researchers’ work. Additionally, this study adds aggregated data literature, as far performance buildings concerned, allows investors exported from surveys at disposal. At same time, suggests exploration alternative technologies, based all renewable sources rather than only solar power systems. highlights comparative examination different climatic socio-economic environments, better determine what technologies effectively serve needs each region. Finally, survey considers necessary connect hospital units awareness management workforce saving resources. Due fact studies oriented toward large-sized hospitals, suggested future, lens should be focused smaller private public sectors’ health units.

Язык: Английский

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Color Quality Versus Energy Efficiency: A Dual Perspective on LED Retrofits in Healthcare Examination Rooms

Applied Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(2), С. 756 - 756

Опубликована: Янв. 14, 2025

Selecting LED retrofits for examination rooms in healthcare buildings involves setting the right balance between lighting quality and energy efficiency. In case of LEDs incorporated luminaires used medical rooms, it is essential to consider not only correlated color temperature (CCT) rendering index (CRI Ra) compliance with standards, but also cyanosis observation (COI) that meets more demanding regulations certain countries. this work, Color Preference Criteria (CPC) method select application. The classified as P1 according CPC were found meet required COI level.

Язык: Английский

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Balanced scorecard-based cost analysis of service industry using a novel hybrid decision making approach based on golden cut-oriented bipolar and q-ROF sets

Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 43(4), С. 4709 - 4722

Опубликована: Май 17, 2022

This study aims to create a strategy for reducing energy costs in hospitals ensure the sustainability of health services. In this framework, novel hybrid decision making approach is generated based on golden cut-oriented bipolar and q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (q-ROFs). Firstly, balanced scorecard (BSC)-based criteria are evaluated by using multi stepwise weight assessment ratio analysis (M-SWARA) approach. Secondly, alternatives examined with help technique order preference similarity ideal solution (TOPSIS) technique. The novelty find critical factors that affect institutions an original decision-making model. proposed model has also some superiorities comparing previous models literature. First, SWARA method improved, name M-SWARA. Hence, relationship between can be owing issue. Additionally, cut taken into consideration compute degrees q-ROFSs achieve more accurate results. These two issues have important impact originality findings demonstrate consciousness level employees highest respect hospitals. type used plays significant role Thus, renewable sources should considered meeting needs Although installation these types higher, it will possible significantly reduce long run.

Язык: Английский

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Analysis and Evaluation of Indoor Environment, Occupant Satisfaction, and Energy Consumption in General Hospital in China

Buildings, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 13(7), С. 1675 - 1675

Опубликована: Июнь 29, 2023

Different functional areas within general hospitals have varying environmental requirements, with relatively high energy consumption. A comprehensive evaluation of the operational performance’s rationality is great significance in hospitals’ conservation efforts. This study conducted an annual post-occupancy a hospital located hot summer and cold winter area east China. Two hundred seventy-eight valid online satisfaction questionnaires, sixty point-to-point indoor environment data each typical season, consumption were obtained. The overall selected met standard requirements. results showed that occupant was influenced by gender, working hours, length stay. level this building 84.7 kWh/m2, which significantly lower than other public China developed countries. inpatient department directly related to days, increase 12.2 kWh/m2 for every 1000 additional days. new quality (IEQ) model efficiency established. Overall, outpatient exhibited superior performance compared department. These models can help owners decision-makers identification hospitals.

Язык: Английский

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Interventions for increasing energy efficiency in hospitals

Cochrane library, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 2024(3)

Опубликована: Март 5, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Electric Energy Management in Buildings Based on the Internet of Things: A Systematic Review

Energies, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(15), С. 5753 - 5753

Опубликована: Авг. 1, 2023

The purpose of this paper is to uncover how the process managing electricity in buildings based on Internet Things occurs. In particular, work seeks depict factors affecting consumption and management, as well application energy management. A systematic literature review used examine breadth electric management literature, encompassing bibliometric thematic analysis an established procedure. findings show evolution field within key research networks with a few papers covering important elements such use, monitoring, assessment, planning, integrative manner. Within field, lacking theory practice, originality assembly into conceptual framework real-time (IoT). Indeed, brings together consumption, improvements that have been dispersed across one place. This framework, therefore, represents stage towards view IoT subsequent enhancement efficiency adoption.

Язык: Английский

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Grants and Funding for the Processes of Decarbonization in the Scope of Sustainability Development—The Case from Poland

Energies, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 15(20), С. 7481 - 7481

Опубликована: Окт. 11, 2022

The study aimed to determine how the public perceives directions of decarbonization develop a sustainable energy strategy for Poland. political challenge is use dedicated funds and grants move from market low-carbon technology. For development, governments must implement an environmentally friendly, cost-effective, socially acceptable policy. risk social acceptance plays vital role in Poland, especially Silesia, influencing process. study’s main objective was identify socio-economic features that affect assessment process assuming respondents used central or local carry out this authors deepened multidisciplinary aspect analysis decarbonization, mainly pointing issues, which presented article. conducted using “snowball” method on group 444 diverse people. They were based non-parametric statistical methods: Chi-square, Mann–Whitney U, Kruskal–Wallis test, showed most effective factors are subsidies by governments. Moreover, it found people with higher education give less support centralization though they perceive provide greater chance success processes. This fills gap sciences.

Язык: Английский

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Energy performance of healthcare facilities in 3 climatic zones in Cyprus

Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 7, С. 16 - 16

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2022

Safeguarding affordable and energy-efficient medical services has emerged as a crucial necessity to sustain national healthcare systems, especially in view of the current pandemic. While set standards guidelines aim minimum energy requirements for building facilities, more insight into sector’s consumption Cyprus is deemed necessary, since it 4th most energy-demanding sector per square meter this country. This first extended research on facilities across different climatic zones types fuel favoured each zone, which marks novelty work. The findings study highlight that coastal inland are energy-challenging regions, with than 60% final needs covered by electricity. On contrary, mountainous region, approximately 80% oil attributed mainly heating purposes. average primary was found be 497 kWh/m 2 air-conditioned spaces. Therefore, highlights mean surface 4 times higher threshold nZEBs; compelling critical consideration intervention their enhancement. Moreover, regions heavily reliant conventional fuel; an unreliable highly polluting option. work demonstrates prominent challenge high potential retrofit examined upgrading nZEB-Hospitals, towards endeavour climate-neutral transition.

Язык: Английский

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