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Yu, Charleston. "Building an imageable urban environment through architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70664.
Full textErgin, Ozge. "Modeling Building Height Errors In 3d Urban Environments." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609097/index.pdf.
Full textMarmoux, Pierre-Benoît. "Energy services for high performance buildings and building clusters - towards better energy quality management in the urban built environment." Thesis, KTH, Byggvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-98798.
Full textRamesh, Shalini. "Urban Energy Information Modeling: A Framework To Quantify The Thermodynamic Interactions Between The Natural And The Built Environment That Affect Building Energy Consumption." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2018. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/1130.
Full textCubol, Eliseo Magsambol. "Building Urban Resilience in New York City." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1628516458046903.
Full textWang, Jialin. "Building integrated wind energy." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/building-integrated-wind-energy(81978798-e68a-4189-87b0-4159b280b6e9).html.
Full textMerlier, Lucie. "On the interactions between urban structures and air flows : A numerical study of the effects of urban morphology on the building wind environment and the related building energy loads." Thesis, Lyon, INSA, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ISAL0070/document.
Full textThis thesis is an exploratory study that lays the scientific and methodological foundations of a transverse approach for studying urban energy and bio-climatic issues. This approach involves concepts and tools of building and urban physics as well as urban planning and architecture. It addresses the relations between urban morphology and aerodynamic processes, and studies their effects on the building energy loads due to infiltration and convective heat losses. This thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part synthesizes the specificities of urban aerodynamics and urban physics, and analyzes existing urban fabrics from a morphological point of view. Generic typologies of isolated buildings and urban blocks for small scale aerodynamic studies are deduced. The second part validates the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model (steady RANS RSM) against detailed experimental and numerical data, and presents the numerical experiments performed on the different morphological types. Mean flow structures that develop according to the construction shape and built environment, as well as pressure distribution on the building outer walls are examined. The last part couples heat and air fluxes to evaluate the contribution of urban air flows on the building energy loads. The improvement brought by CFD to the assessment of building convective heat transfers is verified by comparing numerical results to experimental data, detailed numerical studies and standard correlations. An enhanced temperature wall-function adapted for forced convection problems is adjusted to the model based on existing studies, and the convective heat transfers distribution on building facades is analyzed. Finally, the building energy loads due to air infiltration and heat transmission are estimated for typical constructions and compared to standard values. The results of this thesis show strong effects of the topology and dimensionality of constructions and urban structures on the development of recirculation phenomena within the urban canopy layer. The related aerodynamic conditions yield heterogeneous pressure and convective heat transfer intensities and distributions on building facades, which depend upon the considered built morphology. Their effects on building energy loads are logically particularly important in absolute value for buildings that are neither insulated nor air tight. Nonetheless, the estimates of the building energy needs based on standard or simulated pressure and convective heat transfer coefficients often show substantial deviation. Focusing on the relative contribution of the built structure, the effects of the aerodynamic context appear more influential for insulated buildings. Essentially, switching from an exposed to a sheltered building may decrease the energy needs per surface unit of floor due to air infiltration and heat transmission through outer walls by 18% up to 47% according to simulation
Ingersoll, Christopher Bruce. "A dialectic construct for the urban environment." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53132.
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Blaney, Weston Douglas. "An Institute for Urban Agriculture: Architecture, Ecology and Urban Habitat." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35895.
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Xuan, Wei. "Wind-induced dispersion of building exhaust in an urban environment : a full-scale and wind-tunnel study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39097.pdf.
Full textDebies-Carl, Jeffrey S. "Building a Better Tomorrow: Punk Rock and the Socio-Politics of Place." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253037189.
Full textKassa, Bewketu Z. "Bamboo: An Alternative Building Material for Urban Ethiopia." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2009. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/66.
Full textMaliki, Nor Zarifah. "Kampung / landscape : rural-urban migrants’ interpretations of their home landscape. The case of Alor Star and Kuala Lumpur." Diss., Lincoln University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/791.
Full textYi, Claire. "Re-Imagining Nature in Dense, High Rise Urban Environment: the Present and Future of Green Building Infrastructure in Singapore." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2020. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/217.
Full textAndric, Ivan. "The assessment of district heating potential in a context of climate change and building renovation." Thesis, Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017IMTA0033/document.
Full textThe main scope of this thesis is to assess the impacts of changed weather conditions and building renovation on district heating systems in the future, as well as the environmental performance of such systems within the urban environment, in order to evaluate the potential of district heating in the future. In order to do so, two models were developed:•A dynamic model for heat demand forecast, based on the thermo-electrical analogy, that takes into account weather and building renovation scenarios. The model had a satisfactory precision, and it can be applied on any location for a given number of buildings, which was proved on the example of multiple case studies;•An environmental assessment model (based onemergy theory) for the assessment of district heating systems environmental performance within the urban environment. The approach can be applied on any type of district heating systems, as well as on competitive urban heating technologies, which was proved by the application on multiple systems within the case studies considered;The results from case studies indicate that the new generation of district heating systems with compact infrastructure (made of non-environmentally intensive materials) and renewable heat production could be a solution for providing sustainable heating services to urban environments. However, in order to maintain the feasibility of these projects, potential heat demand reductions caused by the direct and indirect impacts of climate change should be considered during the design phase, along with the development of new business plans in order to maintain relatively low prices of district heating services. Moreover, the difference between these impacts in different climate types should be considered
Trivedi, Neeti. "Adopting collaborative planning for redevelopment of built environment as a means for capacity building of the urban poor." Thesis, Curtin University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54051.
Full textUpadhyay, Naimish S. "Green Local Governments in Florida: An Analysis of Sustainability and Green Building Policies." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003096.
Full textMinnaar, Cosette-Mari. "The Building as Eco-Urban Filter: Reconnecting Man To Earth." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78589.
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Li, Jianqiang. "Predicting the potential for natural ventilation of buildings in the urban environment." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14526/.
Full textQunby, Rohan G. H. "Time, space, city and resistance : situating Negri's multitude in the contemporary metropolis : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Public Policy at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/923.
Full textWatkins, Richard. "The impact of the urban environment on the energy used for cooling buildings." Thesis, Brunel University, 2002. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5553.
Full textDe, Faria Luciano. "Airflow in the urban environment : an evaluation of the relationship between urban aspect ratios and patterns of airflow, wind velocity and direction in urban areas, and coefficient of pressure distribution on building envelopes." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/45307/.
Full textCheung, Hiu Dan. "Daylighting performance assessment methods for high-rise residential buildings in a dense urban environment." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2005. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3227493.
Full textVasishta, Pavan. "Building and Leveraging Prior Knowledge for Predicting Pedestrian Behaviour Around Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Environments." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019GREAM038.
Full textAutonomous Vehicles navigating in urban areas interact with pedestrians and other shared space users like bicycles throughout their journey either in open areas, like urban city centers, or closed areas, like parking lots. As more and more autonomous vehicles take to the city streets, their ability to understand and predict pedestrian behaviour becomes paramount. This is achieved by learning through continuous observation of the area to drive in. On the other hand, human drivers can instinctively infer pedestrian motion on an urban street even in previously unseen areas. This need for increasing a vehicle's situational awareness to reach parity with human drivers fuels the need for larger and deeper data on pedestrian motion in myriad situations and varying environments.This thesis focuses on the problem of reducing this dependency on large amounts of data to predict pedestrian motion accurately over an extended horizon. Instead, this work relies on Prior Knowledge, itself derived from the JJ Gibson's sociological principles of ``Natural Vision'' and ``Natural Movement''. It assumes that pedestrian behaviour is a function of the built environment and that all motion is directed towards reaching a goal. Knowing this underlying principle, the cost for traversing a scene from a pedestrian's perspective can be divined. Knowing this, inference on their behaviour can be performed. This work presents a contribution to the framework of understanding pedestrian behaviour as a confluence of probabilistic graphical models and sociological principles in three ways: modelling the environment, learning and predicting.Concerning modelling, the work assumes that there are some parts of the observed scene which are more attractive to pedestrians and some areas, repulsive. By quantifying these ``affordances'' as a consequence of certain Points of Interest (POIs) and the different elements in the scene, it is possible to model this scene under observation with different costs as a basis of the features contained within.Concerning learning, this work primarily extends the Growing Hidden Markov Model (GHMM) method - a variant of the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) probabilistic model- with the application of Prior Knowledge to initialise a topology able to infer accurately on ``typical motions'' in the scene. Secondly, the model that is generated behaves as a Self-Organising map, incrementally learning non-typical pedestrian behaviour and encoding this within the topology while updating the parameters of the underlying HMM.On prediction, this work carries out Bayesian inference on the generated model and can, as a result of Prior Knowledge, manage to perform better than the existing implementation of the GHMM method in predicting future pedestrian positions without the availability of training trajectories, thereby allowing for its utilisation in an urban scene with only environmental data.The contributions of this thesis are validated through experimental results on real data captured from an overhead camera overlooking a busy urban street, depicting a structured built environment and from the car's perspective in a parking lot, depicting a semi-structured environment and tested on typical and non-typical trajectories in each case
Hyde, Jennifer 1961. "Building scrap based industries : the potential for economic development and environmental improvement in the Gaza Strip." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67434.
Full textZhang, X. "Designing a geographic visual information system (GVIS) to support participation in urban planning." Thesis, University of Salford, 2004. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2178/.
Full textChow, Kwok-sang. "A case study on the environmental impacts of a large site formation contract in the urban area /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13498332.
Full textGatela, Sierrane Grace S. "Building Bridges for Wildlife: Modeling the Richness of Human-Wildlife Encounters Over 15 Years of Urban Growth in the Sky Islands." The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608603.
Full textThis study analyzes 15 years of wildlife tracking data across more than 40 transects in the Sky Islands surrounding landscape to investigate how human-wildlife encounters may respond to a decade of land development. The average detection of species per visit (ADPV), the quantification for human-wildlife encounters and indicator of species richness, was calculated for each transect across two sample periods 2001-2011 and 2011-2015. ArcMap was used to visualize the ADPV across sampling sites in the Sky Islands region. The p-value was then calculated to determine whether there was a significant difference between the ADPV of all species and of focal species before and after 2011. The results concluded there was no significant difference and the null hypothesis was accepted.
Yates, Amanda. "Oceanic grounds, architecture, the evental and the in-between : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/962.
Full textHowe, Caroline Louise. "Building stability through decentralization : the environmental, economic, and ethical argument for informal sector collection and decentralized waste processing in urban India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90204.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-54).
Rapid population growth, urbanization and increasing affluence have led to increases in consumption and waste generation in all Indian cities. The current system, a mix of informal recyclables collection and centralized waste collection by the formal sector with much garbage still disposed of in unlined landfills, is at a point of crisis. With waste generation far outpacing processing capacity, cities know they must invest in "improving" waste management systems, yet a key question is whether to invest in centralized or decentralized, formal or informal waste systems, or combine the strengths of both. This research asks what approach to waste management in India will increase stability, economic and environmental sustainability, and social benefit. To answer those questions, I conducted a case study of Pune, since the city has implemented centralized waste processing, followed by supporting informal sector collection and instituting decentralized collection. The diversity of its methods and the many challenges Pune has faced have allowed me to analyze the benefits, impacts and limitations of each of these approaches. For the case study, I conducted more than 50 interviews of city staff, waste pickers, waste picker cooperative staff, restaurant managers, and citizens. Based on this analysis, and comparison to other Indian cities, including Delhi and Bangalore, I have concluded that the best solution for most Indian cities is to build the capacity of the informal sector while also creating decentralized processing infrastructure to handle organics and non-recyclable waste. While this approach is challenging, it is possible, and I have created a set of recommendations in order to implement this effectively. These guidelines include the following: 1) conduct long-term planning across city departments to have proactive approach to waste generation; 2) focus on waste reduction and eliminate most non-recyclable and non-biodegradable waste streams; 3) invest in the capacities of the informal sector, including giving waste pickers space for sorting, more information on their rights, and support; 4) build decentralized waste processing systems for organics and non-recyclables that create benefits for and minimize impacts on host communities; and 5) site all facilities more equitably by building community consensus.
by Caroline Louise Howe.
M.C.P.
Steinert, Anne Delano. "Standing Right Here: The Built Environment as a Tool for Historical Inquiry." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613686270648078.
Full textCrespy, Clément. "Eoliennes et paysages : recherche sur les critères jurisprudentiels de l'insertion paysagère des éoliennes." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON10023.
Full textIn order to understand the legal bond between wind turbines and landscapes, preliminary elements must be understood. Regarding the legal concept of a « common national heritage », wind turbines and landscapes appear to be two enemy sisters. The conflict emerges when the Environmental Code presents both landscape protection and natural resource development within general interest. The two antagonising notions have to be refined, as the administrative judge appears to be an adjudicator between landscape protection and wind turbine implementation. Whilst the wind turbine landscape sensitivity question is about to integrate the litigation for Classified Installations for the Protection of the Environment, building permits litigation provides the basis for defining an objective method for the subjective definition of damage to the landscape. Using a litigation concerning building permits, a new method of landscape damage assessment has been drafted. Thus, a fine line balancing landscaping can be considered as the end of the war but not necessarily a victory in this meaningless standoff
Strand, Anders. "Urban Rain Water Harvesting and Water Management in Sri Lanka." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20589.
Full textThe field study will investigate the importance of Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) as a water supply option. How can sustainable innovative solutions be developed to solve the water problem of Sri Lanka? Suffering from more than 30 years of civil war and damages after being struck by the tsunami 2004, Sri Lanka faces many challenges to recover and rebuilt the country. The access to water is the most important need for a civilization´s existence. In the dry zones of the island people suffer from long drought periods with dried up wells and no natural sources for water. However the rainfall during the monsoon, even in these areas, is more than enough to provide the water needs if properly collected, thus the run-off coefficient is more than 60%. Several projects with rain water harvesting in so called RWH systems have been implemented with success. Because these areas are not covered by the water supply net and therefore have no tap water, the people are very positive to having the RWH system. In the wet zones and especially in the urban environment of Colombo the situation is different. Here most of the people have treated pipe-borne tap water. The metered tap water is highly subsidized by the government which makes the cost low for the users and increases the water consumption. The citizens do not feel a responsibility to be careful with resources since the common opinion is that water is a never ending source. The majority of the households find no reasons for installing a RWH system because it´s low economic profits. Even if there is a legislation that demands all new buildings should have a RWH system not many households have installed these systems. However the cost to deliver and treat this water is very expensive for the government and demands a lot of energy. Huge investments need to be done in both the treatment plants and the pipe-line net to meet the growing population in Colombo area. Another problem is that 40% of the households today in Colombo have no sewage connection but lead their wastewater directly or after a septic tank into the ground or the sea. If the awareness regarding these concerns could be improved and the conditions between tap water costs and RWH be adjusted with changes in the subsidized system, a sustainable solution to the water situation in Colombo with both economic and environmental benefits could be found. The result from the case study is a recommendation about installing RWH as a complimentary source of water for the households. And investments in RWH systems should be focused to industries, hospitals, schools, municipal buildings and other public buildings with a high water demand and with the best possibilities for optimal results. Further the case study treats a sustainable solution to the sewage situation. It shows the Decentralized waste water treatment plant (DWWT) and its advantages.
Коник, Соломія Ігорівна. "Ущільнення забудови території історично сформованих міст (на прикладі Львова)." Diss., Національний університет «Львівська політехніка», 2021. https://ena.lpnu.ua/handle/ntb/56793.
Full textSpies, Jozanne. "Housing a green proprietor in Marabastad : an inversigation into the connection between housing and open green space in the urban environment /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23120.
Full textLin, Pingying, and 林萍英. "Influence of urban design factors on summertime urban heat island intensity : on-site measurement of pocket parks in high-rise high-density environment in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211106.
Full textRayle, Lisa (Lisa Michelle). "Telling the future together : the potential of collaborative scenario-building in the transformation of urban governance in Portugal." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61570.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143).
In cities worldwide, the geographic and functional mismatch between urban governance structures and the actual dynamics of urban activities has hindered efforts to achieve sustainable and equitable development at the metropolitan scale. Overcoming this mismatch requires coordination between typically fragmented government agencies-and this coordination requires inter-organizational collaboration. In Portugal, the twin challenges of declining urban centers and sprawling suburbs, combined with the absence of a metropolitan planning structure, have heightened the importance of inter-agency collaboration, especially in terms of land use and transportation. In contrast to typical studies of policy integration, which tend to focus on barriers to collaboration, in this thesis I examine forces which contribute to its emergence. I consider two questions: first, what conditions and factors have actually led to inter-organizational collaboration in the Portuguese context? Second, what is the potential for a particular scenario-building process to lead to further collaboration among those who participated? Study of existing collaborative arrangements reveals five conditions which appear to contribute to the emergence of collaboration. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of scenario-building workshops conducted with stakeholders in Portugal suggests that these exercises have increased the likelihood of the future collaboration among participants to a small degree. Finally, recognizing that collaboration is necessary, but not sufficient, for better metropolitan-level development, I suggest ways in which government policy can take advantage of pro-collaboration forces.
by Lisa Rayle.
S.M.in Transportation
M.C.P.
El-Zefzafy, Hend. "Evaluation of the environmental effects on the behaviour of GFRP composite tubes for new sustainable building and urban infrastructure applications." Thèse, Université de Sherbrooke, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6125.
Full textJanak, Haidee N. "Three State-run Green Building Programs: A Comparative Case Study Analysis and Assessment." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/337/.
Full textShrestha, Samata. "IMPACT OF NEIGHBORHOOD MORPHOLOGY ON AIR POLLUTION DISPERSION PATTERNS DUE TO UNPLANNED BUILDING DEMOLITION: A PARAMETRIC STUDY." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent155654365109521.
Full textGonçalves, Naíla. "O uso das alíquotas diferenciadas de IPTU para as áreas de preservação permanente e a função socioambiental da propriedade." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2016. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/1425.
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This dissertation proposes that the Municipalities tax urban areas of permanent preservation with different parameters in relation to the common urban areas, in order to encourage owners of permanent preservation areas. This paper analyzes the conditions for legal reserve compensation that can bring real benefits to nature (environmental implications), while reducing the impact of these measures on private property and / or agricultural / commercial / industrial production (economic implications). In order to carry out this research, it was carried out based on a bibliographical review, official data of the Municipalities, published theses and judicial decisions that have discussed some relevant point of the research. As a result, it was noted the importance of legislative tools for ownership to encompass its socio-environmental function, as well as the Municipality that deliberates the IPTU for an extra-fiscal function in order to protect nature is actually seeking to stimulate or discourage certain relative behaviors to the environment.
Baharuddin. "An investigation of factors affecting prediction of daylight availability in high-rise residential buildings in a high-density urban environment a case study in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43085179.
Full textChow, Kwok-sang, and 周國生. "A case study on the environmental impacts of a large site formation contract in the urban area." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31252588.
Full textSinha, Roy Sagnik. "Green Roofs in Uppsala : Potential food yield and thermal insulating effects of a green roof on a building." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-423991.
Full textThoresson, Josefin. "Omställning – Tillväxt – Effektivisering : Energifrågor vid renovering av flerbostadshus." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-122690.
Full textTransforming the energy used in apartment buildings have become increasingly important issues. This study examines how energy issues were designed in a refurbishment project for apartment buildings built during the “Million Programme” era in Sweden in the district of Östra Sätra in Gävle. The analytical approach and tools used are based on science and technology studies (STS), actor–network theory (ANT), and urban studies. Specifically, the study applies the concept of assemblages, which in this study are called energy assemblages. Energy issues are examined as they translated and negotiated in practice by actors and how they are incorporated into the refurbishment design. The empirical data are based on qualitative interviews, analyses of documents, and observations. The analyses demonstrate that work on energy issues was intertwined with the city’s work on planning and energy issues, the housing company’s working practices, as well as the laws governing public housing companies. The study also demonstrates that sometimes tensions arose in situations in which different energy assemblage processes collided. The study identifies several areas of tension. First, tensions arose in situations of diverse translations of energy goals. Second, in negotiations about calculations of the financial costs of energy transition. Third, tensions also arose when determining where energy transition should be located. Fourth, about resident participation in energy issues. Fifth, the energy transition timeframe. The study demonstrates that energy efficiency measures were prioritized in the refurbishment as long as they were treated as financially beneficial and did not challenge or change existing relationships, work practices, and customer relations.
Bonnier, Thérèce. "Building Low Carbon Lifestyles : A qualitative study of the built environment’s potential to encourage low carbon lifestyles." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-212937.
Full textLeung, Kam Shing. "Climate-responsive design for high-density tropical housing : the effect of urban morphology on the indoor thermal environment of high-density housing in the hot and humid climate." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609287.
Full textMer'eb, Muhammad Musa. "Greenometer-7 a tool to assess the sustainability of a building's life cylce at the conceptual design phase /." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1209184917.
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Miklós, Zsófia. "Governance of Innovative Building Practices: Case of the 3rd District Municipality of Budapest." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325028.
Full textWarodell, Emelie, and Victor Lindholm. "Circular economy – the way to a more sustainable urban environment? A study of how conversion and a circular economic business model can benefit the aspects of sustainability." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-190344.
Full textDiskussionen gällande hållbarhet och ett ekologiskt ansvar är idag ett stort globalt samtalsämne. Detta i kombination med den stora bostadsbristen som råder i Sverige och i Stockholm, för vilken är den geografiska avgränsningen i denna studie. En strategi för att lösa bostadsbristen och höga vakansnivåer är med hjälp av fastighetsutveckling genom konvertering där ändrande av användningsområde står i fokus. Denna studie är utforskande med syftet att undersöka hur det går att använda sig av det befintliga fastighetsbeståndet för att gynna hållbarhetsaspekterna med hjälp av konvertering och en cirkulärekonomisk affärsmodell. Målet är också att få en djupare förståelse för incitamenten och marknadsstrategier i relation till konvertering. Vi har valt att använda en abduktiv undersökningsmetod. Kvalitativ data har samlats genom semistrukturerade intervjuer som huvudkälla där respondenterna har varit projektledare, och andra viktiga aktörer, på diverse utvalda företag såväl som inflytelserika aktörer inom fastighetsbranschen. De tre hålbarhetsdimensionerna, ekologiska, sociala och ekonomiska, har olika inflytelserika roller beroende på vilken förklarande modell som studeras. Det skulle också kunna finnas en fjärde hållbarhetsdimension, den kulturella dimensionen, som breddar perspektivet. Vidare så har behovet för en miljömässig förändring lett till skapandet av en annan ekonomisk modell; cirkulärekonomi. Här utmanas den traditionella linjärekonomiska modellen av en modell där återvinning och återanvändning står i fokus. Konvertering är en strategi som allt mer frekvent används idag än för exempelvis 20 år sedan, men detta koncept skulle kunna ha en ännu större roll i dagens samhälle. Detta skulle kunna ses som ett cirkulärekonomiskt tillvägagångssätt för bygg- och/eller fastighetsbranschen där det funnits undersökningar gällande om denna nya ekonomiska affärsmodell skulle kunna ha en ljus framtid till mötes. Dock tror dagens aktörer på marknaden att den traditionella linjärekonomiska modellen passar dem bättre då den är mer ekonomiskt lönsam på en kortare tid. Vidare tycker dessa aktörer att den cirkulärekonomiska affärsmodellen är ett bra tillvägagångssätt men att den tyvärr inte är ekonomiskt försvarbar i en större utsträckning idag. Eftersom marknaden är full av osäkerhet finns det enbart få aktörer som är villiga att ta klivet in i konverteringsvärlden.