Special issue: The green family: how to reduce residential environmental impact

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management 9(4) 2008

• Life cycle engineering: methods, databases and results
• Life Cycle Assessment applications in the building sector
• Household environmental monitoring a strategy to help homeowners reduce their environmental impact
• Energy challenge: a demand side energy management experiment in households
• Energy-efficient and low carbon emission residential building near Torino, Italy
• Energy demand of German households and saving potential
• Passive house projects in Belgium
• Retrofit of a century old land-house to a low-energy house
• Environmental assessment of energy production by combustion of biogas provided by the anaerobic digestion of agricultural biomass
• Performance assessment of a 5 kW SOFC cogeneration fuel cell
• Impact of energy efficiency upgrade retrofits on the residential energy consumption and Greenhouse Gas emissions in Canada