Abstract
Smart Retrofit Solutions of Buildings toward a Low Carbon World
Highlights
Buildings are responsible for about 40% of total world energy consumption (Cuce and Riffat, 2016)
Recent reports of International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that domestic sector plays a dramatic role on global energy use and carbon emissions (Cuce, 2016a)
The results reveal that vacuum insulation panels provide superior thermal insulation feature by eliminating the thermal bridging effects on the building fabric
Summary
Buildings are responsible for about 40% of total world energy consumption (Cuce and Riffat, 2016). Recent reports of International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that domestic sector plays a dramatic role on global energy use and carbon emissions (Cuce, 2016a) This can be explained with the poor thermal insulation characteristics of existing building materials (Cuce, 2014) and insufficient efficiency figures of current Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems in market (Cuce, 2015). Energy management is as much important as energy generation and in this 68 respect, for the efficient utilisation of energy in buildings, additional measures need to be taken as underlined by researchers in literature At this point, waste heat/energy recovery technologies are of vital importance since there is a great potential of enhancing the overall building energy performance figures through heat recovery (Cuce et al, 2016). Each single technology is scientifically proved and passed from social acceptance surveys as all the data is derived from the on-site projects
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