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Green Building Clusters for Residential Developments: Developing District Cooling Systems
Green building is widely discussed in may research arenas. There are millions of ways in developing and achieving “green status” using various green building rating tools. The main aim of green buildings is to design and construct environmentally, socially and economically sustainable buildings to reduce the negative impacts on the environment and the society as a whole. However, the real question is whether implanting one-off green building can face this challenge. Green buildings need to be integrated to the society and the cities. Even though integrating cities, into this concept is a long way ahead, this research aims to explore the possibility of developing green building clusters for mega residential projects in Australia. This paper presents a preliminary desk study of the proposed project. Currently there is an exponential growth in residential building developments within Australia. Therefore, this research identified the potential methods such as “district cooling system” as one of the resource sharing techniques among green buildings cluster in residential developments. District cooling system is one of such initiative used in Middle Eastern countries for residential developments where cooling is essential for most parts of the year. However, this is not widely used in Australia. This research study carried out a cost–benefit analysis based on a case study project. The research study reported that developing district cooling system is positive for energy savings and life-cycle costs, yet there are many challenges. Combining renewable energy sources into district cooling systems is one of the future directions identified.
Green Building Clusters for Residential Developments: Developing District Cooling Systems
Green building is widely discussed in may research arenas. There are millions of ways in developing and achieving “green status” using various green building rating tools. The main aim of green buildings is to design and construct environmentally, socially and economically sustainable buildings to reduce the negative impacts on the environment and the society as a whole. However, the real question is whether implanting one-off green building can face this challenge. Green buildings need to be integrated to the society and the cities. Even though integrating cities, into this concept is a long way ahead, this research aims to explore the possibility of developing green building clusters for mega residential projects in Australia. This paper presents a preliminary desk study of the proposed project. Currently there is an exponential growth in residential building developments within Australia. Therefore, this research identified the potential methods such as “district cooling system” as one of the resource sharing techniques among green buildings cluster in residential developments. District cooling system is one of such initiative used in Middle Eastern countries for residential developments where cooling is essential for most parts of the year. However, this is not widely used in Australia. This research study carried out a cost–benefit analysis based on a case study project. The research study reported that developing district cooling system is positive for energy savings and life-cycle costs, yet there are many challenges. Combining renewable energy sources into district cooling systems is one of the future directions identified.
Green Building Clusters for Residential Developments: Developing District Cooling Systems
Lu, Xinhai (editor) / Zhang, Zuo (editor) / Lu, Weisheng (editor) / Peng, Yi (editor) / Illankoon, I. M. Chethana S. (author) / Tam, Vivian W. Y. (author) / Le, Khoa N. (author) / Fernando, W. Charith K. (author) / She, Yujuan (author)
International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate ; 2020 ; Wuhan, China
2021-10-12
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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