The Comfort Tool: Assessment and Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Universal Design in Home Renovations

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Autor(a) principal: Kapedani, Ermal
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Herssens, Jasmien, Nuyts, Erik, Verbeeck, Griet
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i2.5040
Resumo: This article introduces a method for advancing environmental and social sustainability objectives in relation to home renovations laid out in European and Belgian policies. The comfort tool is an instrument that simultaneously addresses the energy efficiency and universal design aspects of a sustainable home renovation while being usable and meaningful to laymen homeowners and improving their communication with building professionals. It is based on recent research exploring a synergetic merging of energy efficiency and universal design in housing through the concept of indoor environmental comfort. It employs comfort as a way of intervening in the decision-making process for energy efficiency and universal design measures in home renovations. The comfort tool takes a user-centered approach and rests on an interdisciplinary set of theoretical constructs bringing together knowledge from psychology, nursing, design, and building sciences. Besides describing the method itself, the article lays out the theoretical underpinnings and motivations behind its development and discusses relevant future considerations for sustainable home renovations research and practice.
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title The Comfort Tool: Assessment and Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Universal Design in Home Renovations
spellingShingle The Comfort Tool: Assessment and Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Universal Design in Home Renovations
Kapedani, Ermal
comfort; comfort tool; energy efficiency; home renovation; universal design
title_short The Comfort Tool: Assessment and Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Universal Design in Home Renovations
title_full The Comfort Tool: Assessment and Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Universal Design in Home Renovations
title_fullStr The Comfort Tool: Assessment and Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Universal Design in Home Renovations
title_full_unstemmed The Comfort Tool: Assessment and Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Universal Design in Home Renovations
title_sort The Comfort Tool: Assessment and Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Universal Design in Home Renovations
author Kapedani, Ermal
author_facet Kapedani, Ermal
Herssens, Jasmien
Nuyts, Erik
Verbeeck, Griet
author_role author
author2 Herssens, Jasmien
Nuyts, Erik
Verbeeck, Griet
author2_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Kapedani, Ermal
Herssens, Jasmien
Nuyts, Erik
Verbeeck, Griet
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv comfort; comfort tool; energy efficiency; home renovation; universal design
topic comfort; comfort tool; energy efficiency; home renovation; universal design
description This article introduces a method for advancing environmental and social sustainability objectives in relation to home renovations laid out in European and Belgian policies. The comfort tool is an instrument that simultaneously addresses the energy efficiency and universal design aspects of a sustainable home renovation while being usable and meaningful to laymen homeowners and improving their communication with building professionals. It is based on recent research exploring a synergetic merging of energy efficiency and universal design in housing through the concept of indoor environmental comfort. It employs comfort as a way of intervening in the decision-making process for energy efficiency and universal design measures in home renovations. The comfort tool takes a user-centered approach and rests on an interdisciplinary set of theoretical constructs bringing together knowledge from psychology, nursing, design, and building sciences. Besides describing the method itself, the article lays out the theoretical underpinnings and motivations behind its development and discusses relevant future considerations for sustainable home renovations research and practice.
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