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Energy Efficiency and Global Warming Potential in the Residential Sector: Comparative Evaluation of Canada and Saudi Arabia

2017· article· en· W2607776929 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Architectural Engineering · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBuilding Energy and Comfort Optimization
Canadian institutionsOkanagan University CollegeUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
FundersUniversity of British Columbia
KeywordsGreenhouse gasResidencePer capitaSustainabilityOccupancySustainable developmentGlobal warmingEnergy consumptionConsumption (sociology)BusinessUrbanizationNatural resource economicsAgricultural economicsEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental protectionGeographyClimate changeEconomic growthEconomicsEngineeringCivil engineeringEcologyPopulation

Abstract

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In the Canadian building sector, residential housing has been identified as the largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Similarly, high-income countries, such as Saudi Arabia, are also excessively investing to meet their residential demands. Although developed countries are considered to have more sustainable development practices, factors such as occupancy per household and floor area of a single-family residence can contribute to greater energy consumption and GHG emissions per capita. To develop global sustainable strategies, there is a need to evaluate the global warming potential (GWP) on a household basis by considering different lifestyles and climatic conditions in different parts of the world. In this study, a methodical framework was developed to compare an average Canadian single-family detached house (CSDH) with an average Saudi Arabian villa (SAV) (with similar living standards) based on their energy consumption and associated GWP. Demographic and environmental data were collected from the literature and relevant organizations. To accommodate regional variations in construction practices and climatic conditions, two different types of houses in five different cities of both the countries were analyzed. The study found that the overall GWP of a SAV is approximately 25% higher than that of a CSDH because of the larger floor area. However, comparison on a per-person (occupant) basis revealed that the SAV produces 43% less GHG emissions than the CSDH. The results of this study will assist in formulating sustainable development policies in the residential sector and provides a rationale for both Canada and Saudi Arabia to adopt sustainable development strategies.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.215 · 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