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Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia

Climate changes seem to be one of the controversial conflicts for people in today’s world and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which are one of the main reasons for climate changes, will be an appropriate solution for this alien. Buildings are one of the main resources for producing carbon dioxide...

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Main Authors: Loron, Mehrdad Sahraei, Ismail, Sumarni, Rahimian, Farzad Pour
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia 2012
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75278/1/STDCC2012-5.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.752782019-10-07T03:30:45Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75278/ Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia Loron, Mehrdad Sahraei Ismail, Sumarni Rahimian, Farzad Pour Climate changes seem to be one of the controversial conflicts for people in today’s world and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which are one of the main reasons for climate changes, will be an appropriate solution for this alien. Buildings are one of the main resources for producing carbon dioxide emissions. For instance, around 40 percent of all carbon dioxide emission in the UK comes from buildings and so buildings especially heritage buildings need to improve their performance to contribute carbon reduction. The main aim of this research is to identify some acceptable and convenient ways for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in heritage buildings for controlling climate changes to some extent. In this paper, a desktop study was conducted to review the techniques and technologies to help us for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in heritage buildings. In this paper, the importance of heritage buildings and their elements such as wall, roof, window, door, floor has discussed and the main reasons for increasing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions have mentioned. In continuing, principles, risks, materials, methods, techniques and technologies for controlling energy loss of historic building elements have expressed. The results indicate that manufactured and transport of building materials will produce a large amount of carbon emissions and so the continued use of historic and heritage buildings can be an accommodative solution for this issue. For instance, in England in 2000 these processes accounted for more than 10 percent of the UK carbon dioxide emissions. It proves that conservation of heritage buildings is important not only for significant value of these buildings, but also for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. All the methods, techniques and technologies which have discussed in this paper are correspondent solution for the goal of reduction carbon dioxide emissions that produce through the life-cycle of historic buildings. Universiti Putra Malaysia 2012 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75278/1/STDCC2012-5.pdf Loron, Mehrdad Sahraei and Ismail, Sumarni and Rahimian, Farzad Pour (2012) Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia. In: 2nd International Conference on Socio-Political and Technological Dimensions of Climate Change (STDCC 2012), 19-21 Nov. 2012, Putrajaya, Malaysia. (pp. 126-135).
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description Climate changes seem to be one of the controversial conflicts for people in today’s world and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which are one of the main reasons for climate changes, will be an appropriate solution for this alien. Buildings are one of the main resources for producing carbon dioxide emissions. For instance, around 40 percent of all carbon dioxide emission in the UK comes from buildings and so buildings especially heritage buildings need to improve their performance to contribute carbon reduction. The main aim of this research is to identify some acceptable and convenient ways for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in heritage buildings for controlling climate changes to some extent. In this paper, a desktop study was conducted to review the techniques and technologies to help us for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in heritage buildings. In this paper, the importance of heritage buildings and their elements such as wall, roof, window, door, floor has discussed and the main reasons for increasing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions have mentioned. In continuing, principles, risks, materials, methods, techniques and technologies for controlling energy loss of historic building elements have expressed. The results indicate that manufactured and transport of building materials will produce a large amount of carbon emissions and so the continued use of historic and heritage buildings can be an accommodative solution for this issue. For instance, in England in 2000 these processes accounted for more than 10 percent of the UK carbon dioxide emissions. It proves that conservation of heritage buildings is important not only for significant value of these buildings, but also for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. All the methods, techniques and technologies which have discussed in this paper are correspondent solution for the goal of reduction carbon dioxide emissions that produce through the life-cycle of historic buildings.
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author Loron, Mehrdad Sahraei
Ismail, Sumarni
Rahimian, Farzad Pour
spellingShingle Loron, Mehrdad Sahraei
Ismail, Sumarni
Rahimian, Farzad Pour
Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia
author_facet Loron, Mehrdad Sahraei
Ismail, Sumarni
Rahimian, Farzad Pour
author_sort Loron, Mehrdad Sahraei
title Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia
title_short Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia
title_full Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia
title_fullStr Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the UK and Malaysia
title_sort energy efficiency for reducing carbon footprint in historic buildings: comparing case in the uk and malaysia
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate 2012
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75278/1/STDCC2012-5.pdf
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