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Dr. Masa Noguchi is an Associate Professor in Environmental Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Chartered Engineer, Environmentalist, and Technological Product Designer, registered, respectively, with the Engineering Council, Society for the Environment, and the Institution of Engineering Designers in the UK. In 2002, he also became a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and today, he serves as a Certified Passive House Designer registered with the Passive House Institute in Germany. Dr. Noguchi is the founding coordinator of ZEMCH Network (www.zemch.org), which consists of over 500 partners from nearly 40 countries and initiated a number of industry-academia knowledge-transfer events. At the Melbourne School of Design, he leads the Zero-Energy Mass Custom Home (ZEMCH) design courses, i.e., "Travelling Studio" and "Design Thesis Studio", within the graduate program.
The term ‘domestic environmental experience’ was defined as users’ experiences of cognitive perceptions and physical responses to their domestic built environments. Domestic environments can be enriched through the implementation of environmental experience design (EXD) by combining users’ environmental, spatial and contextual factors that may accommodate occupants’ needs and demands as well as their health and wellbeing. Here, an EXD theoretical concept has been developed based on the ‘User-Centred Design’ thematical framework.
Sajal Chowdhury; Masa Noguchi; Hemanta Doloi. Domestic Environmental Experience Design. Encyclopedia 2021, 1, 505 -518.
AMA StyleSajal Chowdhury, Masa Noguchi, Hemanta Doloi. Domestic Environmental Experience Design. Encyclopedia. 2021; 1 (2):505-518.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSajal Chowdhury; Masa Noguchi; Hemanta Doloi. 2021. "Domestic Environmental Experience Design." Encyclopedia 1, no. 2: 505-518.
Today’s architectural design approaches do not adequately address the relationship between users’ spatial, environmental and psychological experiences. Domestic environmental experience generally indicates users’ cognitive perceptions and physical responses within dwelling spaces. Therefore, without a clear perception of occupants’ experiences, it is difficult to identify proper architectural solutions for a domestic environment. To understand notions of these domestic experiences, the current study explores the theoretical relationship between spatial and environmental design factors within domestic settings which led to the concept of “Environmental Experience Design (EXD)”. Extensive data exploration was conducted using a combination of thirty keywords through different databases (e.g., Scopus, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Google Scholar, Mendeley and Research Gate) to categorise the relevant literature regarding thematic study areas such as human perception and phenomenology, environmental design and psychology, residential environment and design, health-wellbeing and user experiences. This study has identified theoretical associations between spatial and environmental design factors of different domestic spaces that can stimulate occupants’ satisfaction and comfort by reviewing eighty-seven studies from the literature. However, occupants’ contextual situations significantly impact domestic spaces, where spatial and environmental design attributes may be connected to diverse sociocultural factors. The scope of explanation about user context is limited, to some extent, in environmental design theories. Thus, combining occupants’ contexts with spatial and environmental design factors will be a future research direction used to explore the notion of “Domestic Environmental Experience Design”
Sajal Chowdhury; Masa Noguchi; Hemanta Doloi. Conceptual Parametric Relationship for Occupants’ Domestic Environmental Experience. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2982 .
AMA StyleSajal Chowdhury, Masa Noguchi, Hemanta Doloi. Conceptual Parametric Relationship for Occupants’ Domestic Environmental Experience. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2982.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSajal Chowdhury; Masa Noguchi; Hemanta Doloi. 2021. "Conceptual Parametric Relationship for Occupants’ Domestic Environmental Experience." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2982.
The ever-increasing attention towards implementation of environmentally sustainable buildings necessitates the predictions of energy consumption and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) during early design stages. Prefabrication of buildings changes the construction process and components which affects building performance. Better understanding the effects of envelope components on energy performance and IEQ will inform design decisions leading to the creation of more sustainable buildings. In this article multi-objective optimisations of building envelope were carried out by coupling TRNSYS (Transient System Simulation Tool) and jEPlus + EA (EnergyPlus simulation manager for parametrics + Evolutionary Algorithms). The objective functions to be minimised were thermal discomfort hours (TDH), daylight unsatisfied hours (DUH) and life cycle costs (LCC) while maintaining acceptable sound transmission levels and indoor air quality. The decision variables were envelope components of a prefabricated house. Applications for six different climate zones corresponding to eight locations in Australia were investigated. The optimal solution sets were unique for each climate zone. The optimal solutions achieved 27–31% savings in LCC compared to the baseline. The reductions for TDH varied from 6% to 55% among the locations. As a result of trade-offs, the selected compromised solutions in each climate could achieve better reductions for either TDH, LCC or both.
Sareh Naji; Lu Aye; Masa Noguchi. Multi-objective optimisations of envelope components for a prefabricated house in six climate zones. Applied Energy 2020, 282, 116012 .
AMA StyleSareh Naji, Lu Aye, Masa Noguchi. Multi-objective optimisations of envelope components for a prefabricated house in six climate zones. Applied Energy. 2020; 282 ():116012.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSareh Naji; Lu Aye; Masa Noguchi. 2020. "Multi-objective optimisations of envelope components for a prefabricated house in six climate zones." Applied Energy 282, no. : 116012.
This study was stipulated by today’s limited living conditions of middle income households in Bangladesh who have economic constraints that contribute to hindering improvement of their existing domestic settings that may affect occupants’ mental health and wellbeing. The design of domestic living environments tend to influence occupants’ emotions, feelings and moods. Thus, domestic environmental experiences need to be examined and incorporated into architectural design decisions. To understand the notion of such experiences, this study reviewed literatures concerning the related domains extensively. This study found the significant impact of domestic environments on human perceptions. Each design of domestic settings affects occupants’ emotional responses positively or negatively. Through this study, the term domestic environmental experience was defined as users’ experiences of cognitive perceptions and physical responses to their domestic built environment. In addition, it led to proposing the composition of domestic environmental experiences that need to be correlated with architectural design solutions. Nonetheless, this study did not examine the correlation where the emerging notion of Environmental Experience Design (EXD) may serve as the mediator. Accordingly, this new horizon of EXD research needs to be explored further with the aim to improve domestic built environments in Bangladesh which were the original driver of this research.
Sajal Chowdhury; Masa Noguchi; Hemanta Doloi. Defining Domestic Environmental Experience for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing. Designs 2020, 4, 26 .
AMA StyleSajal Chowdhury, Masa Noguchi, Hemanta Doloi. Defining Domestic Environmental Experience for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing. Designs. 2020; 4 (3):26.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSajal Chowdhury; Masa Noguchi; Hemanta Doloi. 2020. "Defining Domestic Environmental Experience for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing." Designs 4, no. 3: 26.
In the light of Sustainable Development Goals acknowledged by the United Nations, homes today need to be socially, economically, environmentally and humanly sustainable. This diverse sustainable housing production challenge necessitates multidisciplinary stakeholders’ effective collaboration on the R&D actions. To form the global collaboration platform, the ZEMCH Network was established in 2010. ZEMCH is an acronym of Zero Energy Mass Custom Home which was conceptualised with the aim to function as a new domain for sustainable housing development in global contexts. For the purpose of ZEMCH design, production and marketing knowledge generation, collection and dissemination, the global network initiated and operated the academic conferences, industry-focused technical study tours and the design training workshop. In consequence, several housebuilders and housing manufacturers, who participated in the knowledge transfer activities, embarked on ZEMCH delivery in their local contexts. This chapter crystallised ZEMCH strategic framework for low carbon solutions in sustainable housing delivery through reviewing the design, production and marketing innovations applied to ZEMCH practices selected in Japan, Canada and Scotland.
Masa Noguchi. ZEMCH Strategic Framework for Low Carbon Solutions in Sustainable Housing Delivery. The Interrelationship Between Financial and Energy Markets 2020, 99 -112.
AMA StyleMasa Noguchi. ZEMCH Strategic Framework for Low Carbon Solutions in Sustainable Housing Delivery. The Interrelationship Between Financial and Energy Markets. 2020; ():99-112.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMasa Noguchi. 2020. "ZEMCH Strategic Framework for Low Carbon Solutions in Sustainable Housing Delivery." The Interrelationship Between Financial and Energy Markets , no. : 99-112.
Fuel poverty is one of the global concerns affecting not only users' financial capacity or affordability for maintaining housing operation but also the occupants' health and wellbeing. Space heating and cooling require a relatively large amount of domestic energy use in housing. Therefore, this study was formed with the aim to propose an innovative approach to utilising free, clean renewable sources of energy applicable to the space heating and cooling of housing in both cold and hot regions. Accordingly, housing test facilities based in Melbourne, Australia, and Kuching, Malaysia, were selected and used for this study that examined the thermal performance of a proposed ‘hydronic radiator’ (HR) system through simulation and onsite measurements. The geothermal heat capacity of a ‘vertical ground heat exchanger’ (VGHE) installed in the house in Melbourne was examined previously by the authors and the VGHE measured data was also applied to this HR performance simulation. The water that circulates through the HRs is heated by sunlight and VGHE or cooled by night sky radiation. This study drew conclusions that the sole utilisation of renewable sources through these proposed HR space heating and cooling systems can provide thermally accessible or comfortable indoor living environments in both heating or cooling dominant regions. Thus, fuel poverty issues may be alleviated through HR system application. The HRs can remove a ‘sensible’ portion of metabolic heat, but they cannot effectively contribute to the ‘latent’ heat removal. Thus, the future potential use or effect of ‘flow-through’ HRs, which are integrated into a underfloor air distribution (UFAD) plenum, was also dsicussed in this study. In the test house located in Melbourne, the flow-through HR UFAD system is currently under development. Therefore, the performance will be measured once the system has come into operation for further testing.
Masa Noguchi; Koon Beng Ooi. THE SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF A PROPOSED ‘HYDRONIC RADIATOR’ SYSTEM TOWARDS LOW COST HOUSING OPERATION IN TEMPERATE AND HOT TROPICAL CLIMATES. Journal of Green Building 2020, 15, 73 -86.
AMA StyleMasa Noguchi, Koon Beng Ooi. THE SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF A PROPOSED ‘HYDRONIC RADIATOR’ SYSTEM TOWARDS LOW COST HOUSING OPERATION IN TEMPERATE AND HOT TROPICAL CLIMATES. Journal of Green Building. 2020; 15 (1):73-86.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMasa Noguchi; Koon Beng Ooi. 2020. "THE SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF A PROPOSED ‘HYDRONIC RADIATOR’ SYSTEM TOWARDS LOW COST HOUSING OPERATION IN TEMPERATE AND HOT TROPICAL CLIMATES." Journal of Green Building 15, no. 1: 73-86.
Nearly a quarter of a million of Australia's ageing population live in residential aged care facilities. Given the growing ageing population in Australia, it is important to understand the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of these settings in consideration of not only measurable IEQ data but also senior occupants’ perceived comfort for their health and wellbeing. In this research, a residential aged care facility was selected in Victoria, Australia, as a case study to examine these relationships across different seasons. IEQ monitoring devices were deployed for continuous and instantaneous data collection on site. Questionnaires and personal interviews were also conducted across three user groups (residents, staff and visitors) to establish an understanding of the users’ perceptions. This study found the existence of a gap between measurable and perceptual IEQ according to the building configuration and occupancy as well as the user lifestyle and activity.
Masa Noguchi; Catherine Mei Min Woo; Hing-Wah Chau; Jin Zhou; Andrea Pianella; Clare Newton. Physical and perceptual gap in indoor environmental quality: a mixed method study of space and users at an aged care facility in Victoria. Architectural Science Review 2019, 62, 286 -300.
AMA StyleMasa Noguchi, Catherine Mei Min Woo, Hing-Wah Chau, Jin Zhou, Andrea Pianella, Clare Newton. Physical and perceptual gap in indoor environmental quality: a mixed method study of space and users at an aged care facility in Victoria. Architectural Science Review. 2019; 62 (4):286-300.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMasa Noguchi; Catherine Mei Min Woo; Hing-Wah Chau; Jin Zhou; Andrea Pianella; Clare Newton. 2019. "Physical and perceptual gap in indoor environmental quality: a mixed method study of space and users at an aged care facility in Victoria." Architectural Science Review 62, no. 4: 286-300.
Growing ageing population today may be necessitating building design decision makers to reconsider the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) standards in a way that accommodates senior occupants’ diverse and individual needs and demands. An experience design approach to rationalising and individualising end-user experience on how to utilise tangible products may serve to reflect user perceptions. Generally, architectural design practices tend to incorporate neither IEQ monitoring and analysis data, nor environmental experience design today. In response to the need for filling this gap, the authors of this paper conducted a feasibility study previously that led to structuring and defining an ‘Environmental Experience Design’ (EXD) research framework. Based on the previous case study on the collective spatial analysis and IEQ monitoring results, this paper further explored the usability and applicability of this proposed EXD framework particularly to the previously documented aged care facility in Victoria, Australia, which has been stressing active ageing agendas. This EXD framework usability experiment helped to build the capacity for engaging the subjectivity and objectivity of end users’ expectations, desires, and requirements in the architectural design thinking process. Nonetheless, due to the limitation of this initial and fundamental usability study’s resources and the objective, the necessity of adjusting the scale and scope of EXD analyses emerged. Moreover, the universality of this EXD research framework usage under various architectural typologies and user conditions yet require further attempts and investigations.
Masa Noguchi; Nan Ma; Catherine Mei Min Woo; Hing-Wah Chau; Jin Zhou. The Usability Study of a Proposed Environmental Experience Design Framework for Active Ageing. Buildings 2018, 8, 167 .
AMA StyleMasa Noguchi, Nan Ma, Catherine Mei Min Woo, Hing-Wah Chau, Jin Zhou. The Usability Study of a Proposed Environmental Experience Design Framework for Active Ageing. Buildings. 2018; 8 (12):167.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMasa Noguchi; Nan Ma; Catherine Mei Min Woo; Hing-Wah Chau; Jin Zhou. 2018. "The Usability Study of a Proposed Environmental Experience Design Framework for Active Ageing." Buildings 8, no. 12: 167.
Humans relate to the living environment physically and psychologically. Environmental psychology has a rich developed history while experience design emerged recently in the industrial design domain. Nonetheless, these approaches have barely been merged, understood or implemented in architectural design practices. This study explored the correlation between experience design and environmental psychology. Moreover, it conducted literature reviews on theories about emotion, user experience design, experience design and environmental psychology, followed by the analyses of spatial settings and environmental quality data of a selected aged care facility in Victoria, Australia, as a case study. Accordingly, this study led to proposing a research framework on environmental experience design (EXD). It can be defined as a deliberate attempt that affiliates experience design and environmental psychology with creation of the built environment that should accommodate user needs and demands. The EXD research framework proposed in this study was tailored for transforming related design functions into the solutions that contribute to improving the built environment for user health and wellbeing.
Nan Ma; Hing-Wah Chau; Jin Zhou; Masa Noguchi. Structuring the Environmental Experience Design Research Framework through Selected Aged Care Facility Data Analyses in Victoria. Sustainability 2017, 9, 2172 .
AMA StyleNan Ma, Hing-Wah Chau, Jin Zhou, Masa Noguchi. Structuring the Environmental Experience Design Research Framework through Selected Aged Care Facility Data Analyses in Victoria. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (12):2172.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNan Ma; Hing-Wah Chau; Jin Zhou; Masa Noguchi. 2017. "Structuring the Environmental Experience Design Research Framework through Selected Aged Care Facility Data Analyses in Victoria." Sustainability 9, no. 12: 2172.
The ground heat exchanger is traditionally used as a heat source or sink for the heat pump that raises the temperature of water to about 50 °C to heat houses. However, in winter, the heating thermostat (temperature at which heating begins) in the Australian Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) is only 20 °C during daytime and 15 °C at night. In South-East Melbourne, the temperature at the bottom of a 50-meter-deep borehole has been recorded with an Emerson™ recorder at 17 °C. Melbourne has an annual average temperature of 15 °C, so the ground temperature increases by 2 °C per 50-m depth. A linear projection gives 23 °C at 200-m of depth, and as the average undisturbed temperature of the ground for a 400-m-deep vertical ground heat exchanger (VGHE). This study, by simulation and experimentation, aims to verify that the circulation of water in the VGHE’s U-tube to low-temperature radiators (LTRs) could heat a house to thermal comfort. A literature review is included in the introduction. A simulation, using a model of a 60-m2 experimental house, shows that the daytime circulation of water in this VGHE/LTR-on-opposite-walls system during the 8-month cold half of the year, heats the indoors to NatHERS settings. Simulation for the cold half shows that this VGHE-LTR system could cool the indoors. Instead, a fan creating a cooling sensation of up to 4 °C is used so that the VGHE is available for the regeneration of heat extracted from the ground during the cold portion. Simulations for this hot portion show that a 3.4-m2 flat plate solar collector can collect more than twice the heat extracted from the ground in the cold portion. Thus, it can thus replenish the ground heat extracted for houses double the size of this 60-m2 experimental house. Therefore, ground heat is sustainable for family-size homes. Since no heat pump is used, the cost of VGHE-LTR systems could be comparable to systems using the ground source heat pump. Water circulation pumps and fans require low power that can be supplied by photovoltaic thermal (PVT). The EnergyPlus™ v8.7 object modeling the PVT requires user-defined efficiencies, so a PVT will be tested in the experimental house.
Koon Beng Ooi; Masa Noguchi. Verification of the Performance of a Vertical Ground Heat Exchanger Applied to a Test House in Melbourne, Australia. Energies 2017, 10, 1558 .
AMA StyleKoon Beng Ooi, Masa Noguchi. Verification of the Performance of a Vertical Ground Heat Exchanger Applied to a Test House in Melbourne, Australia. Energies. 2017; 10 (10):1558.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKoon Beng Ooi; Masa Noguchi. 2017. "Verification of the Performance of a Vertical Ground Heat Exchanger Applied to a Test House in Melbourne, Australia." Energies 10, no. 10: 1558.
Koon Beng Ooi; Masa Noguchi; Hing Wah Chau. Sustainable Heating or Cooling and Ventilation of Affordable Zero-energy Housing. Procedia Engineering 2017, 205, 1294 -1301.
AMA StyleKoon Beng Ooi, Masa Noguchi, Hing Wah Chau. Sustainable Heating or Cooling and Ventilation of Affordable Zero-energy Housing. Procedia Engineering. 2017; 205 ():1294-1301.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKoon Beng Ooi; Masa Noguchi; Hing Wah Chau. 2017. "Sustainable Heating or Cooling and Ventilation of Affordable Zero-energy Housing." Procedia Engineering 205, no. : 1294-1301.
“A simulation study of passively heated residential buildings” published in Procedia Engineering 2015 showed how circulating 15-17°C water from a 50-m deep U-tube to a floor radiator and solar-heated water from a 30 evacuated tube solar collector and a 2-m3 indoor tank to a wall radiator could keep a 30-m2 Melbourne, Australia house thermally comfortable. This paper presents a summary of the ongoing review of publications together with three updates: - (1) Report on that water heated by a 100-metre deep U-tube is 22-24°C, i.e., 2-4 °C warmer than thermal comfort temperature. (2) May 2016 experimental validations of the simulated results which show that when the outdoors is below 10°C, the temperature of the floor radiator is 2-4°C less than the 15-17°C water heated by a 50-m deep U-tube and 25 W fish tank pumps could circulate the waters. (3) Simulations with the addition of phase change materials (PCM) to inside faces show that though a PCM halves the diurnal indoor temperature variations, it confirms that such PCM does not significantly increase the 20°C temperature in a 2-m3 storage tank at the end of winter. Therefore, the size of intersessional thermal storage would be a problem for family-sized houses. German Guidelines indicate that 1-2 boreholes could provide enough heat for family-sized houses. The heat extracted in winter can be replenished in summer. Thus the geothermal heat from about 100-m deep boreholes with 22-24°C bottom temperature could sustainably keep residential buildings in cool climates similar to Melbourne's cool temperate thermally comfortable.
Koon Beng Ooi; Mohammad Omar Abdullah; Masa Noguchi. An Update of a Simulation Study of Passively Heated Residential Buildings. GeoScience Engineering 2016, 62, 12 -17.
AMA StyleKoon Beng Ooi, Mohammad Omar Abdullah, Masa Noguchi. An Update of a Simulation Study of Passively Heated Residential Buildings. GeoScience Engineering. 2016; 62 (3):12-17.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKoon Beng Ooi; Mohammad Omar Abdullah; Masa Noguchi. 2016. "An Update of a Simulation Study of Passively Heated Residential Buildings." GeoScience Engineering 62, no. 3: 12-17.
Laura Elena Aelenei; Antonio Frattari; Laurent Riscala; Haşim Altan; Arman Hashemi; Kheira Anissa Tabet Aoul; Masa Noguchi. Zero Energy Homes. Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings 2016, 275 -309.
AMA StyleLaura Elena Aelenei, Antonio Frattari, Laurent Riscala, Haşim Altan, Arman Hashemi, Kheira Anissa Tabet Aoul, Masa Noguchi. Zero Energy Homes. Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings. 2016; ():275-309.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Elena Aelenei; Antonio Frattari; Laurent Riscala; Haşim Altan; Arman Hashemi; Kheira Anissa Tabet Aoul; Masa Noguchi. 2016. "Zero Energy Homes." Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings , no. : 275-309.
Masa Noguchi; Ercilia Hirota; Jun-Tae Kim; Carlos Formoso; Haşim Altan; Pamela Bell; Antonio Frattari; Laurent Riscala. ZEMCH Business Operation in Japan. Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City 2016, 339 -360.
AMA StyleMasa Noguchi, Ercilia Hirota, Jun-Tae Kim, Carlos Formoso, Haşim Altan, Pamela Bell, Antonio Frattari, Laurent Riscala. ZEMCH Business Operation in Japan. Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City. 2016; ():339-360.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMasa Noguchi; Ercilia Hirota; Jun-Tae Kim; Carlos Formoso; Haşim Altan; Pamela Bell; Antonio Frattari; Laurent Riscala. 2016. "ZEMCH Business Operation in Japan." Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City , no. : 339-360.
Masa Noguchi; Carlos Formoso; Cecilia Gravina da Rocha; María Dolores Andújar-Montoya; Victor Bunster; Rebecca Cameron; César Imai. Mass Customisation. Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings 2016, 95 -119.
AMA StyleMasa Noguchi, Carlos Formoso, Cecilia Gravina da Rocha, María Dolores Andújar-Montoya, Victor Bunster, Rebecca Cameron, César Imai. Mass Customisation. Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings. 2016; ():95-119.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMasa Noguchi; Carlos Formoso; Cecilia Gravina da Rocha; María Dolores Andújar-Montoya; Victor Bunster; Rebecca Cameron; César Imai. 2016. "Mass Customisation." Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings , no. : 95-119.
Victor Bunster; Masa Noguchi; Thomas Kvan. Mass Personalisation. Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings 2016, 121 -149.
AMA StyleVictor Bunster, Masa Noguchi, Thomas Kvan. Mass Personalisation. Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings. 2016; ():121-149.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVictor Bunster; Masa Noguchi; Thomas Kvan. 2016. "Mass Personalisation." Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings , no. : 121-149.
This paper explores a new perspective towards understanding barriers to ascertaining the economic value of low-energy housing. It examines why the economic value of low-energy housing is less transparent in active markets; this is investigated from the valuation principle perspectives of embodied energy and operational energy in residential dwellings. The focus is placed on the composition of energy consumption associated with the housing product life cycle. Low operational energy of a dwelling is linked to consumer preference by the inter-temporal value estimate of expected benefits. However, “low” embodied energy housing is an ecological construct and does not appear to be directly linked to short-term market value or an expected (intuitive) economic motive. This “gap/disconnect”, alongside some practical “barriers” in the market economy, has created a challenge in deriving the economic value of low-energy housing. The barrier to economic value of low-energy housing is methodological and by adopting a life cycle approach to assessing and measuring energy in a house that incorporates embodied energy and operational energy, greater clarity can be achieved which may lead to a better informed market, enhancing transparency and allowing consumer choice to direct and value the broader benefits of low-energy housing.
Hao Wu; Robert H. Crawford; Georgia Warren-Myers; Malay Dave; Masa Noguchi. The economic value of low-energy housing. Pacific Rim Property Research Journal 2016, 22, 45 -58.
AMA StyleHao Wu, Robert H. Crawford, Georgia Warren-Myers, Malay Dave, Masa Noguchi. The economic value of low-energy housing. Pacific Rim Property Research Journal. 2016; 22 (1):45-58.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHao Wu; Robert H. Crawford; Georgia Warren-Myers; Malay Dave; Masa Noguchi. 2016. "The economic value of low-energy housing." Pacific Rim Property Research Journal 22, no. 1: 45-58.
Global increases in the demand for energy are imposing strong pressures over the environment while compromising the capacity of emerging economies to achieve sustainable development. In this context, implementation of effective strategies to reduce consumption in residential buildings has become a priority concern for policy makers as minor changes at the household scale can result in major energy savings. This study aims to contribute to ongoing research on energy consumer profiling by exploring the forecasting capabilities of discrete socio-economic factors that are accessible through social housing allocation systems. Accordingly, survey data gathered by the Chilean Ministry of Social Development was used identify key characteristics that may predict firewood usage for space heating purposes among potential beneficiaries of the Chilean social housing program. The analyzed data evidences strong correlations between general household characteristics and space heating behavior in certain climatic zones, suggesting that personalized delivery of energy efficiency measures can potentially increase the effectiveness of initiatives aimed towards the reduction of current patterns of consumption.
Victor Bunster; Masa Noguchi. Profiling Space Heating Behavior in Chilean Social Housing: Towards Personalization of Energy Efficiency Measures. Sustainability 2015, 7, 7973 -7996.
AMA StyleVictor Bunster, Masa Noguchi. Profiling Space Heating Behavior in Chilean Social Housing: Towards Personalization of Energy Efficiency Measures. Sustainability. 2015; 7 (6):7973-7996.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVictor Bunster; Masa Noguchi. 2015. "Profiling Space Heating Behavior in Chilean Social Housing: Towards Personalization of Energy Efficiency Measures." Sustainability 7, no. 6: 7973-7996.
Towards Zero Energy Mass Customized Housing Delivery,Masa Noguchi
Masa Noguchi. Towards Zero Energy Mass Customized Housing Delivery. Innovative Energy Policies 2015, 4, 1 .
AMA StyleMasa Noguchi. Towards Zero Energy Mass Customized Housing Delivery. Innovative Energy Policies. 2015; 4 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMasa Noguchi. 2015. "Towards Zero Energy Mass Customized Housing Delivery." Innovative Energy Policies 4, no. 1: 1.