Adaptive Reuse: Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Measures
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Adaptive reuse offers significant opportunities for energy efficiency and sustainability in the built environment. Design of energy-efficient and high-performance adaptive reuse requires that building performance and simulations tools are used and integrated with the design process. The objectives of this research is to provide building researchers and practitioners with a better understanding of how to effectively conduct adaptive reuse to promote energy conservation and sustainability. A case study of 1315 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA demonstrates some of the barriers that are currently present achieving energy efficiency and sustainability in adaptive reuse and strategies that were used to overcome those barriers.
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