chapter 5
Evaluating Retrofit Performance
Introduction
It is common for claims about high performance to be made early in projects for both new and retrofitted buildings. However, it is also common for the actual performance of buildings to fall far short of what was imagined in these initial stages. Fortunately, rigorous methodologies exist to measure building performance and they can be adapted specifically to retrofit projects.
By 2050, in the UK, a majority of the 26 million homes and about 1.8 million non-domestic buildings that were built before any concerns about CO2 emissions were raised will ...
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