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Hartog, L, Weijs-Perrée, M and Appel-Meulenbroek, R (2018) The influence of personality on user satisfaction: multi-tenant offices. Building Research & Information, 46(04), 402–16.

Ioannidou, D, Zerbi, S, García de Soto, B and Habert, G (2018) Where does the money go? Economic flow analysis of construction projects. Building Research & Information, 46(04), 348–66.

Jack, R, Loveday, D, Allinson, D and Lomas, K (2018) First evidence for the reliability of building co-heating tests. Building Research & Information, 46(04), 383–401.

Kristjansdottir, T F, Heeren, N, Andresen, I and Brattebø, H (2018) Comparative emission analysis of low-energy and zero-emission buildings. Building Research & Information, 46(04), 367–82.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: embodied emissions; houses; life cycle; low-energy buildings; monthly balance; net zero; zero-emission buildings; Norway;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0961-3218
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2017.1305690
  • Abstract:
    Different designs and concepts of low-energy and zero-emission buildings (ZEBs) are being introduced into the Norwegian market. This study analyses and compares the life cycle emissions of CO2 equivalents (CO2e) from eight different single-family houses in the Oslo climate. Included are four ZEBs: one active house, two passive houses, and a reference house (Norwegian building code of 2010). Monthly differences in CO2e emissions are calculated for the seasonally sensitive Norwegian context for electricity generation and consumption. This is used to supplant the previous applied symmetric weighting approach for CO2e/kWh factors for import and export of electricity for the ZEB cases. All the ZEBs have lower use-stage emissions compared with the other buildings or the reference case. Embodied impacts are found to be 60–75% for the analysed ZEB cases, confirming the importance of embodied impacts in Norwegian ZEBs. The lowest total emissions were from the smallest ZEB, emphasizing area efficiency. The highest emissions were from the reference case. By abandoning the symmetric approach, a new perspective was developed for assessing the performance of ZEBs within the Norwegian context. One of four ZEB cases managed to balance out its annual energy-related emissions.

Lorch, R (2018) End of an era. Building Research & Information, 46(04), 343–7.

Meacham, B J and van Straalen, I J (2018) A socio-technical system framework for risk-informed performance-based building regulation. Building Research & Information, 46(04), 444–62.

Parkinson, A T, Reid, R, McKerrow, H and Wright, D (2018) Evaluating positivist theories of occupant satisfaction: a statistical analysis. Building Research & Information, 46(04), 430–43.

Pekkonen, M, Turunen, M and Haverinen-Shaughnessy, U (2018) Housing quality perceptions in Finland: the elderly population. Building Research & Information, 46(04), 417–29.