Earth Notes: General Bibliography (gauch2023embodied)

• [gauch2023embodied] Gauch, H.L. and Dunant, C.F. and Hawkins, W. and Cabrera Serrenho, A. What really matters in multi-storey building design? A simultaneous sensitivity study of embodied carbon, construction cost, and operational energy (accessed 2024-05-15), Elsevier BV, 2023-03, Applied Energy, volume 333, ISSN 0306-2619, doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120585, article/pages 120585 (article) (BibTeX).
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  [Quote: "The size and shape of a building have considerable influence on both embodied and operational efficiency. Lower window-to-wall ratios lead to lower heating and cooling across all building types and climates. Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery significantly increases operational efficiency for most building types and climate zones. The choice of structural frame type has significant impact on embodied carbon and cost, but negligible influence on heating and cooling loads. Compactness and low window-to-wall ratios simultaneously benefit embodied and operational efficiency and are decisive to enable meeting the Passivhaus standard." Quote: "This suggests that once a building has a substantial layer of insulation - a minimum of 50 mm is used here - and features double glazing, further upgrades only have marginal benefits." Quote: "Brick cladding leads to significantly higher embodied carbon and cost compared to sheet or tile cladding." Quote: "The use of mechanical ventilation with heat recovery has been shown to be one of the most important levers to decrease heating and cooling loads..."]