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...

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...

Climate change could significantly affect consumer demand for energy in buildings, as changing temperatures may alter heating and cooling loads. Warming climates could also lead to the increased adoption and use of cooling technologies in buildings. We assess residential electricity and natural gas demand in Los Angeles, California under multiple climate change projections and investigate the p...

This paper presents a residential water demand forecasting model using a back propagation neural network (BPNN) in the context of residential buildings in Korea. The water demand of a building demonstrates a highly complex and non-linear phenomenon reflecting such features as geographic and climatic and special types of buildings. We describe the impact of several potential determinant factors ...

The applicability of the utilisation factor method EN ISO 13790 is studied in modern Finnish buildings in the cold climate of Finland. The heatdemand results of EN ISO 13790 are compared against a validated dynamic simulation tool. It is shown that, with the default values of the numerical parameters of the utilisation factor, EN ISO 13790 gives in Finnish conditions as much as 46% higher or 59...

Urban areas consume up to 80 percent of the world's total energy production and are growing in size and complexity. At present, urban building energy consumption is largely considered solely in terms of individual building types, neglecting the effects of residents’ location-based activities that influence patterns in energy supply and demand. Here, we examine the spatial fluctuations of these ...

Make your home solar is going to be reality within few years. Rooftop PV has been developed by Germany, Spain and Italy with the encouragement Feedin -Tariff system for early attaining towards grid parity. The rates of solar PV has been drastically reduced in recent years and approaching towards the grid parity. There has been increasing trend of grid connected residential rooftop PV worldwide ...

Abstract. The 3D BAG v. 2.0 dataset has been recently released: it is a country-wide containing all buildings in the Netherlands, modelled multiple LoDs (LoD1.2, LoD1.3 and LoD2.2). In particular, LoD2.2 allows differentiating between different thematic surfaces composing building envelope. This paper describes first steps to test use perform energy simulations characterise performance of stock...

ISSN 2277-5056 | © 2012 Bonfring Abstract--The major cities of India are going through huge metamorphosis under the impact of globalization, population increment, housing demand and tremendous financial investment in building industry. Rapid development of high-rise and four-five storied residential buildings are observed at every possible part of the city. In designing the city so, residentia...