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Building Life Cycle Energy Consumption Estimation Based on the Work Breakdown Structure

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Energy consumption of buildings is one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, frequently accounting for around 40 % of the total energy consumption in urban areas. Reasonable sustainability assessment requires effective and efficient methods for energy consumption estimation of buildings. With an aim to improve the accuracy in building energy consumption estimation, this paper proposes a life cycle building energy consumption estimation method based on the work breakdown structure. For each basic work package, the relevant construction business information can support a more accurate estimation of energy consumption and thus the integration of all basic work packages can enhance the accuracy in energy consumption estimation.

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This study is sponsored by the Environment and Conservation Fund (Grant Number: ECF Project 16/2010).

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Jian Xiao & Xueqing Zhang

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  1. , School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Haidian District Shangyuan Cun 3, Beijing, 100044, China, People's Republic

    Feng Chen

  2. , School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Haidian District Shangyuan Cun 3, Beijing, 100044, China, People's Republic

    Yisheng Liu

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Xiao, J., Zhang, X. (2013). Building Life Cycle Energy Consumption Estimation Based on the Work Breakdown Structure. In: Chen, F., Liu, Y., Hua, G. (eds) LTLGB 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34651-4_119

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