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It’s Time to End Single-Family Zoning Open
Local planning in the United States is unique in the amount of land it reserves for detached single-family homes. This privileging of single-family homes, normally called R1 zoning, exacerbates inequality and undermines efficiency. R1’s or…
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Death to Single-Family Zoning…and New Life to the Missing Middle Open
Planners in the United States and Canada should stop defending single-family zoning, the single most harmful widely used practice in planning. In the century since first adoption, it has exacerbated both inequality and climate change. Land…
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Space heating with ultra-low-temperature district heating – a case study of four single-family houses from the 1980s Open
District heating is predicted to play a large role in the future fossil free energy system. Apart from providing energy savings by utilizing surplus heat, the district heating system also provides flexibility to fluctuating electricity gen…
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Life Cycle Assessment of Building Materials for a Single-family House in Sweden Open
The Nordic countries have shown great interest in using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the building sector compared to the past years. Sweden has set up an objective to be carbon neutral (no greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere) by 2…
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Monitoring a Pre-Normative Multi-Family Housing Case-Study in a Mediterranean Climate Open
In Spain, a significant percentage of the residential building stock presents deficient indoor conditions regarding current energy standards, due to having been constructed before the Norma Básica de la Edificación in 1979 (NBE CT 79) rega…
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Parent psychological wellbeing in a single-family room versus an open bay neonatal intensive care unit Open
The lower depression scores by the mothers and lower parental stress scores during hospitalization for both parents supports that single-family rooms care contribute to parents' psychological wellbeing.
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Upzoning and Single-Family Housing Prices Open
In December 2018, the Minneapolis (MN) city council approved a new comprehensive plan that proposed eliminating single-family zoning restrictions throughout the city. In this project, I study the initial impact of this change on the sales …
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Renovation of Swedish Single-family Houses to Passive House Standard – Analyses of Energy Savings Potential Open
A third of Sweden's two million single-family houses were built in the period 1961-1980, and many of them are in need of renovation. These houses have a high energy use and are in technical terms fairly homogenous. This investigation evalu…
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The Impact of Single-Family Rental REITs on Regional Housing Markets: A Case Study of Nashville, TN Open
The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of real estate investment trusts (REITs) in 1960 so companies could develop publically traded real estate investment portfolios. REITs focus on commercial property, retail property, and rental prop…
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Impact of Legionella regulation on a 4th generation district heating substation energy use and cost: the case of a Swiss single-family household Open
4th Generation District Heating (4GDH) systems can have a supply temperature lower than 50 °C to decrease losses and to favour the integration of renewable and waste heat. As the temperature requirement for space heating in new and retrofi…
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Using a One-Stop-Shop Concept to Guide Decisions When Single-Family Houses Are Renovated Open
One way of reducing the use of fossil fuels in Denmark is to explore possible energy savings in the building stock, especially the large number of single-family houses built from 1960 through 1980. Energy renovation in this housing segment…
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Housing Indicators for Sustainable Cities in Middle-Income Countries through the Residential Urban Environment Recognized Using Single-Family Housing Rating Systems Open
This study presents a comparative analysis of the housing indicators used by the single-family housing rating systems (SHRSs), in which the residential urban environment (RUE) influences buildings’ certification scores, emphasizing the rel…
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Room-level load shifting of space heating in a single-family house – A field experiment Open
Recent simulation-based studies have indicated that load shifting using Economic Model Predictive Control (E-MPC) of radiators for residential space heating can be utilized for demand response purposes in energy systems. However, there is …
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The impact of a new light rail system on single-family property values in Charlotte, North Carolina Open
This paper examines the impact of a new light rail system on single-family housing values in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1997 to 2008. We use a Hedonic Price Analysis (HPA) to estimate how proximity to light rail, housing characteristi…
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Comfort within Budget: Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Envelope Improvements in Single-Family Affordable Housing Open
In Brazil, the delivery of homes for low-inc ome households is dictated by costs rather than performance. Issues such as the impact of climate change, affordability of operational energy use, and lack of energy security are not taken into …
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Characterization of housing stock for energy retrofitting purposes in Spain Open
Energy saving in existing buildings is of vital importance. In this work, the characterization of housing stock in Spain for energy retrofitting purposes has been performed. The regulations in force when the existing stock was constructed …
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The Impact of Airport Proximity on Single-Family House Prices—Evidence from Poland Open
Airports in Poland are obliged to observe the sustainable development principle and therefore to reduce their environmental impact by creating so-called limited use areas (LUA) related to aircraft-generated noise. The research authors anal…
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Heat Supply Comparison in a Single-Family House with Radiator and Floor Heating Systems Open
Floor heating and radiators are two of the most common types of hydronic heating systems used for space heating in single-family houses in cold climate regions. Notwithstanding, there are few comparative studies on indoor temperature distr…
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Analysis of the Environmental Impact in the Life Cycle of a Single-Family House in Poland Open
Buildings consume energy, which is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reduce their environmental impact, it is important to choose suitable building materials and energy source. The paper presents the results of a…
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Energy Efficiency in Multifamily Rental Homes: An Analysis of Residential Energy Consumption Data Open
In this paper, we examine how energy consumption differs among different residential housing types. Most previous research suggests that apartments are less energy efficient than single-family homes, whether owner-occupied or rental. In ad…
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Generalized Cost-Effectiveness of Residential Wind Mitigation Strategies for Wood-Frame, Single Family House in the USA Open
Wind is one of the deadliest and most expensive hazards in the United States. Wind hazards cause significant damage to buildings and economic losses to homeowners. Economic losses average approximately $3.8 billion annually from hurricane …
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On the way to a smart factory for single-family wooden house builders in Sweden Open
To remain competitive, single-family wooden house builders might create smart wooden house factories. Smart factories and smart production are recent concepts used to denote ideas that support competitiveness in for example the automotive …
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Coupling Effect of Space-Arrangement and Wall Thermal Resistance on Indoor Thermal Environment of Passive Solar Single-Family Building in Tibet Open
In areas where solar energy is abundant, such as the Tibetan plateau, passive solar buildings are attracting more and more attention and becoming a popular form of rural building. However, it is often difficult to achieve the satisfactory …
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Analytical Implications of Mortgage Lending Value and Bottom Value Open
This study concerns the analytical formulation and relative implications of bottom value (BV) and mortgage lending value (MLV) regarding properties where the existing building provides an income during its useful life, leaving thereafter o…
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The Level of Airtightness in Energy-efficient Single-family Houses in Poland Open
The article presents the results of the research concerning tightness in the single family houses with superior energy. The first part contains of the main requirements for the tightness of the building contained in the Polish norms, Europ…
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Variability in Consumption and End Uses of Water for Residential Users in Logan and Providence, Utah, US Open
Variations in water fixtures and appliances coupled with different routines and preferences of users result in high levels of variability in residential water consumption. This study assessed differences in residential water use in terms o…
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Moisture supply in Danish single-family houses – the influence of building style Open
According to ISO 13788 internal moisture supply in dwellings can be described by humidity classes defined by outdoor temperature, occupancy and ventilation. Hygrothermal measurements in 500 Danish single-family houses were made to investig…
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Minimal Monitoring of Improvements in Energy Performance after Envelope Renovation in Subsidized Single Family Housing in Madrid Open
This study quantified the improvement in energy efficiency following passive renovation of the thermal envelope in highly inefficient residential complexes on the outskirts of the city of Madrid. A case study was conducted of a single-fami…
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Energy efficiency and economic analysis of retrofit measures for single-family residential buildings Open
The research elaborates various solutions using detailed economic evaluation and energy efficiency calculation and simulation technology for formulating applicable, energy and cost-efficient retrofit solutions of single-family residential …
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Study on Residential Lifestyle and Energy Use of Japanese Apartment/Multidwelling Unit–An Investigation on Higashida Smart Community of Kitakyushu Open
This paper focused on studying the interrelationships between household's energy use and their lifestyle in electric-only multi dwellings of Higashida, Kitakyushu, Japan. Questionnaires survey concerning the house, family, and equipment ch…