Architecture & Built Environment · Sustainable & Environmental Design
A topic within Sustainable & Environmental Design, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
2 works
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Argues that deep energy retrofits of existing office buildings pay back fastest when envelope, lighting and HVAC upgrades are bundled and sequenced together rather than pursued as separate, uncoordinated projects.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Anna Carolina Menezes, Andrew Cripps, Dino Bouchlaghem & Richard Buswell
Uses post-occupancy monitoring of real buildings to show that non-domestic buildings routinely use far more energy than their design-stage models predicted, and traces the gap to occupant behaviour and operating assumptions that retrofit calculations still leave out.
10 pages