May 9, 2022

  • Why we should change the way we environmentally assess building retrofits

    Why we should change the way we environmentally assess building retrofits

    Building retrofits are increasingly assessed from an environmental perspective. Standard assessment methods, however, largely do not consider future developments and fail to take into account the state of climate emergency where the time horizon is substantially shorter than the expected building lifetime. Therefore a more forward-looking analysis is required. Including global warming, electricity decarbonization, and…