A5010516789- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Noise Effects and Management
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Value Engineering and Management
- Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
SINTEF Community
2023-2024
SINTEF
2023-2024
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2020-2023
The resilient building design has become necessary within the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme disruptive events associated with climate change. Since thermal comfort is one main requirements occupants, evaluating resilience from a perspective during after necessary. Most existing metrics focus on performance only events. Building designers are still seeking that can capture in both phases (i.e. events). This paper introduces novel benchmarking framework multi-phase metric for...
Considering the diverse uncertainties in building operations and external factors (i.e., occupancy weather scenarios that can impact a building's energy comfort), performance robustness has become as important itself. Selecting robust high design is challenging, particularly when multiple criteria should be fulfilled. It requires evaluation, assessment, multi-criteria decision making three sequential steps. The current study introduces new robustness-based approach integrates assessment...
All-electric buildings are playing an important role in the electrification plan towards energy-neutral smart cities. Batteries key components all-electric that can help demand-side energy management as a flexibility asset and improve building survivability case of power outages active asset. This paper introduces novel methodology indexes for determining cost-effective battery sizes. It also explores possible trade-off between buildings. The introduced uses IDA-ICE 4.8 performance...
Responsive building envelopes (RBEs) are central to developing sustainability strategies for zero emission/energy buildings (ZEBs). RBEs a large group of complex technologies and systems, which is why multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods helpful navigate assessments considering various performance indicators. This article first provides literature review assessment criteria key indicators an analysis existing robustness-based MCDM methods. Then, methodological approach assess RBE...
The design of zero emission neighbourhoods still lacks adequate supporting tools to integrate into the decision-making process. Since neighbourhood performance can be evaluated against multiple criteria, multi‐criteria (MCDM) methodologies are increasingly used in this field. This paper extends application a previously developed robustness-based MCDM methodology from building scale. is tested on Norwegian neighbourhood, where five designs and eight uncertainty scenarios investigated using...
Building performance can be affected by various events such as changing environment or requirements. Thus, buildings should react to these last their performance. In this regard, the concept of resilience is recently gaining ground in building design context. However, for application design, there a clear definition and an assessment framework. This paper develops comprehensive its answering four main questions. Furthermore, it introduces multi-phase curve tests thermal using test framework...
Evaluating neighborhood performance is crucial for achieving long-term zero-carbon goals, enabling efficient energy, cost, and resource sharing among buildings. This task requires balancing multiple criteria managing uncertainties, emphasizing the importance of robustness alongside high performance. article introduces a flexible multi-criteria approach evaluating performance, focusing on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions energy use across different life cycle stages. Flytårnet, Norwegian with...
Abstract Various schemes are established to evaluate the sustainability of buildings during their life cycle. These introduce a range evaluation criteria and indicators periodically revised align with current trends. This study reviews leading in Norway, compares scope, similarities, limitations, advantages. The review is carried out against proposed office building Oslo, Norway. paper evaluates how comply EU taxonomy Norwegian regulations. assessed through literature interviews programme...
Abstract The concept of emission free construction sites (EFCS) has emerged as a prioritised measure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Norwegian activities. EFCS have been evaluated through several pilot projects in Southern Norway, whilst none are found Northern Norway. This study aims investigate the major barriers and success factors for developing EFCS-projects Norway digital survey amongst industry representatives. results indicate that implementation related limited access...
Abstract The Norwegian construction industry is responsible for ca. 2.2 million tonnes CO 2eq in 2021. rise GHG emissions, noise and air pollution the built environment becoming a potential hazard due to large growth of activities within cities. As response, actors from have converted diesel machinery electric operation reduce these impacts. result, market Norway has grown exponentially. However, access varies greatly. aim this paper map available on as first steps towards creating database...
Abstract The building and construction sector is responsible for 3.4% of total GHG emissions in Norway. Around 95% these arise from the combustion fossil fuels operation machinery transport. This highlights importance transitioning to renewable energy sources sites. To facilitate this transition, a new concept emerging Norway, called emission free fully implement concept, clear consistent definition sites commonly agreed stepwise approach decarbonisation activities required. paper presents...