Energy Strategies for Buildings. Proposal for a Commercial Office Building

Academic Paper from the year 2006 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 2, language: English, abstract: This report aims at the energy and carbon emission reduction of the projected office building of the client. Climate Change is a topic that recently gets a lot of attention throughout all levels of economy, society and policies. Policy targets are "set to achieve a reduction of harming carbon emissions. The pursuit towards these targets has become en vogue as it creates" green images, for example, of companies. In order to reduce corporate emissions the companys building stock can be designed carbon efficiently. Great consumers of energy in an office are the air-conditioning equipment and the lighting devices. Therefore these systems offer a high potential of carbon emission reduction. Progress of technology provides a great range of newly developed approaches to reduce energy demand and to minimize emission from energy generation.