Avoiding Health Pitfalls of Home Energy-Efficiency Retrofits

Avoiding Health Pitfalls of Home Energy-Efficiency Retrofits

Home Energy-Efficiency Retrofits

Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 119 | number 7 | July 2011 A 283 acquiesced to that point in a reply to the first of several letters to the editor by Brondum (2007) on the same topic. However, Braun et al. (2007) noted that including such information is not always possible when, for example, the use of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data or other constraint...

Will drivers for home energy efficiency harm occupant health?

The U.K. government has committed to an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, with housing accounting for 27% of total current emissions. There are several drivers both to reduce emissions from homes and to reduce fuel poverty, promoting a range of building and behavioural measures in homes. The health benefits of warmer homes in winter have been described, but there has been less consider...

Avoiding OCL specification pitfalls

This paper discusses about teaching software modeling by using OCL specifications, in the context in which the web represents the main source of information. The raise of the interest for models induced a higher need for clear and complete specifications. In case of models specified by means of MOF-based languages, adding OCL constraints proved to be an interesting answer to this need. Several ...

Avoiding MCDA Evaluation Pitfalls

One is not required to be a mechanical engineer to drive a car and, considering the advanced state of mechanical engineering, most people limit their interest in what lies “under the hood” to finding a competent mechanic. Users of evaluation, risk, and decision analysis tools that are based on classical decision theory should be aware that, as is demonstrated below, classical MCDA (multi-criter...