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Cost-Effectiveness of Increasing Airtightness of Houses

2000· article· en· W2083275286 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Radu Zmeureanu

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Architectural Engineering · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBuilding Energy and Comfort Optimization
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsBuilding envelopeEnergy consumptionEngineeringEnergy costEnergy performanceLife-cycle cost analysisGlobal-warming potentialArchitectural engineeringEnvironmental scienceGreenhouse gasReliability engineeringMeteorology

Abstract

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In a cold climate such as of Montreal, the air infiltration through the exterior envelope of a house has a significant impact on the heating energy consumption and cost. The renovation of existing houses for increasing the airtightness up to the level of new, well-built houses can lead to the reduction of heating energy cost. This paper estimates the cost-effectiveness of this type of renovation by considering (1) the life-cycle energy consumption; (2) the initial cost of renovation; and (3) the CO 2 tax credits, which take into account the environmental impact of increasing the airtightness of existing houses. The results show that the increase of airtightness of existing houses is not always cost-effective in the Montreal area.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.026
Threshold uncertainty score0.053

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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