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Existing buildings can improve energy efficiency by changing structural maintenance materials, adjusting the composition of air conditioning systems, selecting energy-saving equipment, and formulating subsidy policies. [5] These measures can improve users' thermal comfort and reduce buildings' environmental impact.
Receiving a Gold rating for energy and environmental design in September 2016, One World Trade Center is the tallest and largest LEED certified building in the United States and Western Hemisphere. [29] The Empire State Building is a large LEED certified building in New York (with a Gold rating for energy and environmental design in September ...
Since then, IEA EBC's main aim has been to provide an international focus for energy efficiency research in the building sector, with its current mission being to “develop and facilitate the integration of technologies and processes for energy efficiency and conservation into healthy, low emission and sustainable buildings and communities ...
Sustainable refurbishment describes working on existing buildings to improve their environmental performance using sustainable methods and materials. A refurbishment or retrofit is defined as: "any work to a building over and above maintenance to change its capacity, function or performance' in other words, any intervention to adjust, reuse, or upgrade a building to suit new conditions or ...
The project developed a heat recovery air exchanger (HRV), hot water recovery, and a blower-door apparatus to measure building air-tightness, techniques that became common in low-energy building in other parts of the world. [9] Orr would go on to apply many of those techniques to retro-fitting existing buildings to improve energy efficiency ...
Efficient energy use; Energy audit; Energy efficiency implementation; Energy recovery; Energy recycling; Energy saving lamp; Energy Star; Energy storage; Environmental planning; Environmental technology; Fossil fuel phase-out; Glass in green buildings; Green building and wood; Green building; Heat pump; List of low-energy building techniques ...
There are several different building performance standards widely used for designing building codes and energy-efficiency certifications. For instance, the standards produced by ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers) and the IECC (International Energy Conservation Code) have been widely used to inform local building codes and energy-efficiency ...
As of May 2008, one building (Beitou Public Library) had been rated diamond level, and one gold. EEWH is not equivalent to LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System) in the United States , CASBEE (Comprehensive Assessment System for Building Environmental Efficiency) in Japan , and HQE in France.