Specifically the paper looks at the decision making procedure to select advanced building technologies for high energy performance retrofitting, using Coventry University estates as a case study.
has pledged to bring four separate (and smaller) pieces of legislation to address energy-related issues, including home retrofitting, higher fuel standards for heavy vehicles, water and land conservation and a comprehensive response to the Gulf spill.
The program, said Daniel M. Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of its Institute of the Environment, is intended to entice people who might be scared away by the high initial cost of retrofitting homes to incorporate solar power or become more energy-efficient.
One way we can reduce our energy needs and create thousands of good jobs for New Yorkers, as well as improve public health and national security, is to promote energy demand-reduction strategies, like the creation and retrofitting of high-performance, energy-efficient buildings and infrastructure.
The ultimate loads were not enhanced due to retrofitting under higher pre-compression levels.
Although the initial capital for retrofitting is higher as compared to delamping, it offers a long-term advantage of low energy consumption.
Hybrid PV/battery model, though with extra cost of retrofitting and higher levilized cost of energy, has a lower initial cost, operation and maintenance cost, annualized cost and overall costs throughout the lifespan of the project-NPC.
This structure reveals the quantitative impacts of factors and their interactions, and it allows identifying different design strategies, which is valuable for high-performance building design and retrofitting.
Their implementation however would involve a much higher capital cost, requiring either retrofitting or replacement of existing bogies.
Another, who managed teams of volunteers retrofitting homes to higher energy efficiency standards, has been searching for a job for more than six months.
