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Costs of the energy transition and solution – Housing
The energy transition in Switzerland requires refurbishing 80% of the buildings stock, which will mobilize up to 70% of the construction workforce, leaving nearly no one to build new homes. How can we then accommodate 10.4 million people in 2050? ...
2024Visual Capital: Evaluating building-level visual landscape quality at scale
Evaluating visual landscape quality provides valuable information for urban development and spatial planning. In practice however, obtaining high resolution view-metrics and outcome data with sufficient geographic coverage has remained challenging. To over ...
2023Multiscale pattern analysis of building replacements in Zurich from 2000 to 2019
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jingxian Ye
Building replacement (BR) – i.e., the demolition of existing structures and subsequent construction of new buildings on the same site – is often understood as a necessary urban planning strategy despite significant environmental implications regarding soli ...
2023Provision of housing services within planetary limits: A methodological framework for the urban circular economy
The provision of decent housing for all is a core sustainable development goal (SDG) and a fundamental human right. However, the construction sector is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and 40% of global CO2 emissions are attributed to housing ...
2023Efficient and Accurate Peer-to-Peer Training of Machine Learning Based Home Thermal Models
Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer, Omid Ardakanian
The integration of smart thermostats in home automation systems has created an opportunity to optimize space heating and cooling through the use of machine learning, for example for thermal model identification. Nonetheless, its full potential remains unta ...
New York2023Are green bonds priced lower than their conventional peers?
The green bond market's rapid growth has alerted issuers and investors to this sustainable area of investment. This study ascertains whether green bonds are priced lower than conventional bonds-whether a negative green bond premium exists in both Chinese a ...
ELSEVIER2022Towards sufficiency in housing: Agent-based model and transition scenarios
Research problem: Housing is responsible for a considerable part of global resource consumption. In Switzerland, it accounts for almost one third of the country's CO2 emissions and half of the total energy demand. Thus, housing plays an important role in t ...
EPFL2022Assessment of building stock impact on global energy system optimization
This project falls within the framework of a Master Thesis at the Industrial Processes and Energy Systems Engineering (IPESE) laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). With the aim of assessing the building stock impact on global energ ...
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