TITLE:
Energy-Efficiency Retrofitting Strategies for Existing Residential Building Envelope System—A Case Study in China
AUTHORS:
Yingqing Xu, Guopeng Li, Jing Zhou
KEYWORDS:
Existing Residence, Envelope System, Hierarchical Method, Retrofitting Strategy
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research,
Vol.9 No.1,
March
8,
2021
ABSTRACT: With the rapid development of urbanization, the Chinese government has put equal emphasis on construction and retrofitting. But those projects did not achieve optimal effect because of the lack of targeted and systematic design guidance system. In this study, it first analyzes existing retrofitting methods and sorts into five retrofitting types as a basis, and then, captures the combi-nations and permutations of retrofitting methods and materials by parts and layers to build a database. After that, it combines different kinds of ap-proaches by hierarchical matrix method to conclude the most efficient strat-egy. This study also selects typical residential buildings built between 1980 and 2000 in cold climate area of Northeast China as the research objects to test the integrity and effectiveness. As the results of this paper, it provides systematic guidance and multiple performance-based retrofitting strategies of the existing residential envelope system, which can improve indoor ther-mal comfort with low energy consumption.