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The paper addresses the development of a bottom-up building stock energy model (BuilS) for identification of the building stock renovation potential by considering energy performance of individual buildings through cross-linked data from various public available databases. The model enables integration of various EE and RES measures on the building stock to demonstrate long-term economic and environmental effects of different building stock refurbishment strategies. In the presented case study, the BuilS model was applied in the Kočevje city area and validated using the measured energy consumption of the buildings connected to the city district heating system. Three strategies for improving the building stock in Kočevje towards a more sustainable one are presented with their impact on energy use and CO2 emission projections up to 2030. It is demonstrated that the BuilS bottom-up model enables the setting of a correct baseline regarding energy use of the existing building stock and that such a model is a powerful tool for design and validation of the building stock renovation strategies. It is also shown that the accuracy of the model depends on available information on local resources and local needs, therefore acceleration of the building stock monitoring on the level of each building and continually upgrading of databases with building renovation information is of the utmost importance.
Marjana Šijanec Zavrl; Gašper Stegnar; Andraž Rakušček; Henrik Gjerkeš. A Bottom-Up Building Stock Model for Tracking Regional Energy Targets—A Case Study of Kočevje. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1063 .
AMA StyleMarjana Šijanec Zavrl, Gašper Stegnar, Andraž Rakušček, Henrik Gjerkeš. A Bottom-Up Building Stock Model for Tracking Regional Energy Targets—A Case Study of Kočevje. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (10):1063.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarjana Šijanec Zavrl; Gašper Stegnar; Andraž Rakušček; Henrik Gjerkeš. 2016. "A Bottom-Up Building Stock Model for Tracking Regional Energy Targets—A Case Study of Kočevje." Sustainability 8, no. 10: 1063.
The scope of the paper is to overview the different approaches for evaluation of urban infrastructure sustainability. In this context, urban infrastructure covers transportation, energy, water, sewage and information networks as well as waste management and blue-green infrastructure, in terms of both the supply and demand side. A common effort of partners in the European project “C8—Best Practice in Sustainable Urban Infrastructure”, developed under the Cooperation in Science and Technology program (COST), in brief COST C8, was focused on defining the methods, indicators and criteria for evaluation of sustainability, and resulted in a guidebook for decision-makers in local authorities. Here, the COST C8 matrix for simple sustainability assessment of urban infrastructure is applied to The Path (POT) case—a circular memorial and recreational park around the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The applicability and acceptance of the matrix in 43 other cases of sustainable urban infrastructure, collected in the COST C8 project, is presented and discussed.
Marjana Šijanec Zavrl; Mine Tanac Zeren. Sustainability of Urban Infrastructures. Sustainability 2010, 2, 2950 -2964.
AMA StyleMarjana Šijanec Zavrl, Mine Tanac Zeren. Sustainability of Urban Infrastructures. Sustainability. 2010; 2 (9):2950-2964.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarjana Šijanec Zavrl; Mine Tanac Zeren. 2010. "Sustainability of Urban Infrastructures." Sustainability 2, no. 9: 2950-2964.