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@MISC{Zmeureanu_sustainablebuildings:,
author = {Radu Zmeureanu},
title = {SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS: DREAM OR REALITY?},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The design community and stakeholders started to accept the concept of “Green Buildings. ” The green buildings incorporate better practical solutions, with respect to the present market or design requirements, that reduce the environmental load. Although the development of green buildings has a considerable success in the today’s market, this concept is only the first step towards the sustainable buildings. Over the past three decades, researchers discussed other approaches for assessing the sustainability of a given development, including buildings. The paper presents a short summary of indices of sustainability with applications to buildings, with emphasis on those based on the second law of thermodynamics. The paper also presents examples from some case studies from the author’s research projects, related to the building envelope and HVAC systems.
