Call for papers
How might the building stock transition towards Net Zero? How big a change is achievable? At what cost? And what are the theoretical and practical factors that determine both the overall potential as well as the transition process?
Although these questions might lend themselves to a large-scale, aggregate perspective (considering issues like total capital cost, long-term targets for the deployment of low-zero carbon technologies, national and local energy efficiency policies, etc); any changes will be enacted on individual buildings.
This special issue will explore these topics, from both a top-down (national, urban or local stock level) standpoint, but also a bottom-up (building level) point of view. Abstracts (in the first instance) are invited that explore these issues whether from a qualitative perspective (e.g. the potential impact of different retrofit policies as well and any barriers to successful uptake) or a quantitative perspective (e.g. the impact of different approaches to deploying retrofit measures at scale).
Potential Topics
Potential topics cover a range of issues in these categories
- Overall impacts
- Retrofit selection
- Occupancy & behaviour
- Deployment policy
- Skills and tools
Many of these topics are interconnected. As such, we also welcome studies that explore the uncertainties raised by these connections. For example: the chosen measures will impact on the costs and embodied carbon; a large uptake in specific retrofits will likely affect their price; some desired improvements may be limited by external factors (policy, public opinion or the available skills and supply infrastructure); etc.
Furthermore, while some improvement decisions can be made at the scale of individual buildings, others (such as district heating) must be applied across multiple buildings and occupants. Other decisions are inherently time-sensitive, in terms of carbon the benefits of building scale renewables. For instance, the carbon intensity of the grid electricity is expected to fall in the future.
Guest editors: Daniel Godoy-Shimizu and Philip Steadman
Deadline for abstracts: 28 October 2024
Full details:
Net-Zero Retrofit of the Building Stock
https://www.buildingsandcities.org/calls-for-papers/net-zero-retrofit-building-stock.html
