ABSTRACT:
The concern of energy conservation, the reduction of green house gases and sustainability was continuously growing in last years. The concept of green building has been introduced, and refers the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use and harvest energy, water, and materials, and reducing building impacts on human health and on environment, through better design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal. Starting from the national and international trends in development of environmental performance of new and existing home buildings, an interactive system for assisting the calculation of home energy efficiency has been created and validated, and its performances are presented.
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