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Multi-family apartment buildings have the highest energy demand in Europe, consuming 68% of the total final energy use in buildings in Europe (Economidou et al., 2011). Most of them were built between 1945 and 1980 and are now ready for retrofitting and have a huge energy-saving potential. The...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the visual comfort and quality of daylight in modern office buildings in the Nordic climate. A study of various daylight -related aspects and qualities was carried out for three different office buildings, using a combination of quantitative and...

This report presents the results from a sensitivity analysis regarding the influence of using emission data from Norwegian EPD’s instead of the generic data from Ecoinvent, using different CO2eq-factors (for electricity in the operational phase) and electricity load from household appliances on the...

Materialvalg og konstruktiv utforming av moderne trevinduer er avgjørende for vinduets egenskaper slik som luft- og regntetthet, styrke, varmeisolering og bestandighet. Optimalisering av design for best mulig ytelser for alle egenskapene er nødvendig for å oppnå et vindu med lang levetid. Et...