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The objective of this report is to provide a state-of-the-art review on relevant existing studies that could be used as a background for tool development and guidelines in the EE settlement project. The report investigates how different dwelling types and settlement patterns affect travel behaviour...

This second version (V2.0) of the ZEN definition guideline report builds upon version V1.0 of the ZEN definition guideline and series of ZEN definition reports. The ZEN categories for GHG emissions, energy, and power have been updated after having been tested in selected pilots. In addition, a...

The objective of this report is to provide a guideline for how the assessment criteria and key performance indicators (KPIs) covered under each category of the ZEN definition (GHG emissions, energy, power/load, mobility, economy and spatial qualities) may be assessed and followed up in ZEN pilot...

Present day European legislation focuses upon the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in buildings through better design and technological solutions, with a view to reduce operational energy use and embodied GHG emissions. Currently, environmental performance assessment tools for buildings...

This third version of the ZEN definition guideline report builds upon version 1.0 and 2.0 of the ZEN definition guideline reports and series of ZEN definition reports. This report gives further details on the ZEN KPI tool and on ZEN KPI reference, limit, and target values. A major change involves...

The objective of this report is to provide a comprehensive and consistent guideline for the Norwegian definition of Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB) and the associated calculation methodologies. The guidelines described in this report build upon the article "A Norwegian Zero Emission Building...

Forord. Dette notatet er første versjon til et merkeordningssystem for avfallsreduksjon på byggeplass og presenterer resultater fra forskningsprosjektet ConZerW (Construction Site Zero Waste). Målet med notatet er å tydelig definere systemgrensene for avfallsregnskapet for å sikre en korrekt...

The Visund office building is a pilot project with in the Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB) in Norway. The building has 2031 m 2 of heated floor area and is located at Haakonsvern, about 15 km from the centre of Bergen, Norway. The building is owned by the Norwegian Defence Estates...

Denne rapporten er et resultat av at SINTEF Byggforsk og NIKU ble tildelt midler fra Riksantikvarens FoU-midler til å gjennomføre prosjektet MIL-ORG – Miljøvennlig Oppgradering og Rehabilitering av Gamle og verneverdige bygninger. MIL-ORG-prosjektet har tatt utgangspunkt i hvordan verneverdig...

...databases, and tools, one focused on travel behaviour and housing preferences (Landa-Mata et al 2018), and one on district-level tools and databases (Fufa et al 2019), were performed to fill in the gaps in the current approach and bring new insights to the project. The findings from literature review...

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...

For å kunne kvantifisere utviklingen av et nullutslippsområde er klimagassutslipp fra materialer og energibruk i drift viktige indikatorer. Det er utviklet en standard for metode for klimagassberegninger for bygninger – NS 3720:2018 som benyttes for å kvantifisere klimagassutslippene gjennom hele...

The vision of the project EE settlement – Embodied energy, costs and traffic in different settlement patterns is to provide a decision support tool and a guideline which enable municipal planners and other stakeholders to assess the expected impacts of new developments in early planning stages. The...

Powerhouse Kjørbo, located in Sandvika near Oslo, consists of two office blocks from the 1980´s that have been upgraded to energy-efficient and modern offices. The Powerhouse goal is that the refurbished buildings over their lifetime generate more energy than they consumes. This implies that the...

Forprosjektet om utslippsfrie byggeplasser har hovedfokus på fagfeltene samferdsel og transport og skal bidra til at Oslo kommune kan stille bedre krav til utslippsfrie byggeplasser gjennom innovative offentlige anskaffelser ved å benytte resultater og metodikk fra FoU. Forprosjektet omfatter arbeid...

REBUS project vision and objectives: The research project REBUS – REuse of Building materials – a USer perspective started in 2020 with a vision of developing a knowledge platform to enable the wider and more efficient implementation of reusable building materials. REBUS aimed to address the main...

The Visund office building is a pilot project with in the Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB) in Norway. The building has 2031 m 2 of heated floor area and is located at Haakonsvern, about 15 km from the centre of Bergen, Norway. The building is owned by the Norwegian Defence Estates...

Denne rapporten er utarbeidet på oppdrag for Riksantikvaren og har som mål å gi et helhetlig bilde av den miljømessige betydningen av gjenbruk av eksisterende bygninger. Den anvendte metoden innebærer en systematisk kartlegging og metaanalyse av livssyklusanalyser ved reha-bilitering og oppgradering...

This report summarises the life cycle assessment methodology used to calculate the GHG emissions from a case study considered under "Utslippsfrie byggeplasser forprosjekt". The greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions) of Lia barnehage were calculated based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA...

Denne rapporten er et resultat av at SINTEF Byggforsk og NIKU ble tildelt midler fra Riksantikvarens FoU-midler til å gjennomføre prosjektet MIL-ORG – Miljøvennlig Oppgradering og Rehabilitering av Gamle og verneverdige bygninger. MIL-ORG-prosjektet har tatt utgangspunkt i hvordan verneverdig...