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Net-zero energy building schools

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  • Zeiler, Wim
  • Boxem, Gert

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In the Netherlands with respect to sustainable educational building the main focus has been on energy saving. Recently some schools were built as rather environmental friendly schools with more attention to comfort and health aspects. The first NZEB designed school is analyzed and the results compared with other more traditional schools. With all the enthusiasm for NZEB buildings it is good to look into the pro and contra. In the past important necessary technological and organizational changes were frustrated and thus delayed as people only focused on the positive aspects and forgot about the possible negative aspects. This then resulted in disappointing pilot projects. Therefore the article will give a list of advantages and disadvantages and will come up with recommendations to gain more and lose less in the process of doing so. The way to approach the design task is to look for win–win situations, find those solutions which increases the advantages of NZEB while at the same time improve some of the NZEB disadvantages characteristics.

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  • Zeiler, Wim & Boxem, Gert, 2013. "Net-zero energy building schools," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 282-286.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:49:y:2013:i:c:p:282-286
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.013
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    1. Nematchoua, Modeste Kameni & Marie-Reine Nishimwe, Antoinette & Reiter, Sigrid, 2021. "Towards nearly zero-energy residential neighbourhoods in the European Union: A case study," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 135(C).
    2. Shaterabadi, Mohammad & Jirdehi, Mehdi Ahmadi & Amiri, Nima & Omidi, Sina, 2020. "Enhancement the economical and environmental aspects of plus-zero energy buildings integrated with INVELOX turbines," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 153(C), pages 1355-1367.
    3. Portia Odell & Vanessa Rauland & Karen Murcia, 2020. "Schools: An Untapped Opportunity for a Carbon Neutral Future," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-24, December.
    4. De Luca, Giovanna & Ballarini, Ilaria & Lorenzati, Alice & Corrado, Vincenzo, 2020. "Renovation of a social house into a NZEB: Use of renewable energy sources and economic implications," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 159(C), pages 356-370.
    5. Sichilalu, Sam & Mathaba, Tebello & Xia, Xiaohua, 2017. "Optimal control of a wind–PV-hybrid powered heat pump water heater," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 185(P2), pages 1173-1184.
    6. Attia, Shady & Shadmanfar, Niloufar & Ricci, Federico, 2020. "Developing two benchmark models for nearly zero energy schools," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 263(C).

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