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Negative Life-Cycle Emissions Growth Rate Through Retrofit Of Existing Institutional Buildings: Energy Analysis And Life Cycle Assessment Of A Case Study Of University Dormitory Renovation, Somayeh Tabatabaee, Benjamin S. Weil, Ajla Aksamija

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ABSTRACT: Buildings account for about one fifth of the world`s total delivered energy use, and thus methods for reducing energy consumption and carbon emission associated with buildings are crucial elements for climate change mitigation and sustainability. Voluntary challenges, mandates, and, particularly, public institutions have articulated these goals in terms of striving for “net-zero energy” buildings, and mandated measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Typically, the definition of net-zero and other energy consumption reduction goals only consider operational energy. By ignoring embodied energy during the entire life-cycle of the building (manufacture, use and demolition of materials and systems), such goals and …