Cleaner energy in Nigeria residential housing

Energy Consumption Modeling in Residential Buildings

In recent years, the issue of energy consumption modeling techniques in the building sector has been widely considered by researchers and managers. Researches indicate that energy consumption in residential sector is one of the main parts of the total consumption. Moreover, the urban residence is supposed as a significant consumer of energy in every country and therefore a focus for energy cons...

Modeling Housing Demand for New Residential Buildings in Urban Areas

T his study investigates the factors affecting the demand for new residential buildings in urban areas of Iran during 1976-2010. The demand function for new residential buildings in urban areas was estimated and then the existence of a long-run relationship among variables of this function was studied using the Bounds testing of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Co-integration procedure. The t...

Looking at the Success of Certification Schemes for Energy Use in Residential Housing

The housing sector accounts for a large share of the overall energy use and CO2 emissions in the European Union. In the light of the many environmental and economic problems that can arise from high use of fossil fuels, it is necessary to increase efficiency in this sector. In the Italian province of South Tyrol an environmental agency has designed a certification program for the heating demand...

Population growth and housing in Nigeria.

The author describes the growing housing problem in Nigeria and the effect of the country's rapid rate of population growth on housing needs. Data are from official sources.

Residential Housing Population Revitalization: Honors Students