Encyclopedia of ZEMCH Research and Development

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Technology: general issues; (summer) cottage; (summer) villa; accessibility; active ageing; additional floor construction; affordable housing; age-friendly; ageing in place; architecture; Bagnoli former area; behavioural factors; bikeability; bio-based material; BREEAM; building application; built environment; CASBEE; circular economy; climate change; computational design; computational methods; construction; degrowth; design quality; developing and developed countries; domestic environment; domestic sector; efficiency; electricity use per capita; energy; energy management; energy performance; energy subsidy; environment; environmental design; ethics; finite element modeling; Finland; forecasting; government programs; green building performance; Green Star; health and wellbeing; healthy environments; heat equation; heat transfer; holiday home; housing production; Iran; LEED; life cycle; log burning; low-cost; mass customization; multi-criteria assessment; natural ventilation; occupant experience; office building; passive ventilation; Passivhaus; phytoremediation; post-growth; post-occupancy; renewable energy; second home; SEM-PLS; simulation; social housing; solar chimney; sustainability; sustainability transformations; sustainable; sustainable architecture; sustainable building; synergies; thermal bridge; thermal modeling; Trombe wall; urban regeneration; walkability; wood; ZEMCH; Zero Energy Mass Custom Homes (ZEMCH)
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036581446; 9783036581453; books978-3-0365-8145-3
• Access: Open Access

The concept of the 'Zero Energy Mass Custom Home' or ZEMCH is emerging with the aim of exploring opportunities to make our built environment more socially, economically, environmentally, and humanly sustainable. The built environment is indeed a system of energy and environment that is occupied by the masses, embracing diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. Today, the United Nations articulates the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that reflect necessary global actions for humanity and the planet. In view of these agendas, the delivery of built environments is becoming more demanding and complex than ever, and it is now required that developers accommodate the social, economic, environmental, and human dimensions of these sustainability challenges. This volume encompasses a wide spectrum of ZEMCH research and development knowledge that concerns design engineering, construction management, material innovation, renewable energy technology, and community planning.