By achieving this level of customization, HomeZero maximizes its customers’ business opportunities, promotes efficiency, and enables self-sufficiency. Contractors experience approximately five times morecost savingscompared to manual methods like Excel sheets. 5x greatercost savings for HomeZero customers By...
The ability of improving energy efficiency in buildings is enhanced by building energy modeling tools, which are well advanced and established but lack generality (each building has to be modeled individually) and require high cost, which limits many residential buildings from taking advantage of such...
Moreover, the archetype-based approach is widely applied for taking into account building diversity, in terms of architectural shape, construction year, urban context, orientation and materials [47]. In so doing, the aggregate power demand as well as the energy demand (EDagg) can be easily ...
energy-efficiency design decisions; lighting environment; thermal environment; building energy demand; life cycle cost1. Introduction 1.1. Global Context With the development of industrialization in various countries in the world, environmental problems have become increasingly prominent. Since the mid to ...
the criteria of green public procurement. The method is sensitive to changes in the type of building, foundation solution, and underground construction. Keywords: footprint family;green public procurement;construction and demolition waste;evaluation method;cost control...
This study explores integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Value Engineering (VE) to enhance cost management and project value optimization in residential construction. The primary aim is to develop a comprehensive framework that synergizes 5th Dimension Building Information Modeling (5D BIM)...
Noting that in the case of buildings with many floors, the renovation to be carried out is large-scale and very expensive. Figure 1. Possible locations for hydrometers: (a) on the top floor; (b) on the ground floor; and (c) on the building floors. Thus, the availability of a ...
building energy performance; Jeddah; residential buildings; energy efficiency; average annual energy consumption (AAEC)1. Introduction In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), building energy consumption is a significant contributor to oil consumption and a major expense for building users [1]. The ...
To account for this, we included the number of buildings and households in the complex as variables. The floor area ratio (FAR) is determined by dividing the total gross floor area by the land area, while the building coverage ratio (BCR) is calculated by dividing the building area by the...
inaccuracies in the estimation of required materials, fluctuations in the cost of materials, in addition to insufficient experience with the project type and location have been identified as the main reasons for project time and cost overruns in the construction of a high-rise building in Indonesia...