Building energy performance analysis after changing its form of use from an office to a residential building
Authors:
- Przemysław Markiewicz-Zahorski,
- Joanna Rucińska,
- Małgorzata Fedorczak-Cisak,
- Michał Zielina
Abstract
Lowering energy consumption is one of the most important challenges of the modern world. Since the construction sector accounts for 40% of total energy consumption worldwide, the Parliament of the European Union has developed a Directive, according to which all newly designed and thermally upgraded buildings should meet the requirements of almost zero energy demand (nZEBs) from 1 January 2021. At the same time, in Poland, but also in many other countries in the world, there is a growing oversupply of office space in large cities with a simultaneous increase in demand for apartments, which is caused, among other things, by the increase in the share of remote work and the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, this is forcing owners to change the use of buildings from office to residential. This article analyses the possibilities of changing the function of an office building to a multi-family residential building. For both functional solutions, a comparative energy analysis was carried out, taking into account different work schedules and the requirements for new buildings with zero energy demand. The analyses have shown that changing the form of use of an office building to a multi-family building without significant financial and technical costs is possible. On the other hand, the reverse change of the form of use is much more difficult and, in many cases, practically impossible. Due to the fact that many offices are now multinational corporations, this issue is global.
- Record ID
- CUTfca8ad29c6dd427bb70f9607569d719a
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Energies, ISSN , e-ISSN 1996-1073, Biweekly
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 14
- No
- 3
- Pages
- [1-26]
- Article number
- 564
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; tab.; wykr.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 24-26; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 57; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 14, Iss. 3, Spec. Iss.
- Substantive notes
- Special Issue: COVID-19 Pandemics: Energy, Economic, Environmental, Social, Policy and Health Impacts
- Keywords in English
- energy performance, nZEB, thermal comfort, building form of use change
- DOI
- DOI:10.3390/en14030564 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/3/564 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- pol (pl) Polish
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 140
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTfca8ad29c6dd427bb70f9607569d719a/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTfca8ad29c6dd427bb70f9607569d719a
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