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Carbon-Neutral Architectural Design
Pablo M. La Roche
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Pablo M. La Roche
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The energy used to operate buildings is one of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions. While it is possible to reduce emissions through climate-responsive design, many architects are not trained to do this. Filling an urgent need for a design reference in this emerging field, this book describes how to reduce building-related greenhouse gas emissions through appropriate design techniques. It presents strategies to achieve CO2 reductions, with an emphasis on control of energy flows through the building envelope and passive heating and cooling strategies. This new, revised edition is updated throughout, and includes a new chapter on building simulations.
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1 | Buildings and Climate Change |
1.1 THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
The greenhouse effect occurs when radiation from the sun passes through the atmosphere and hits the surface of the Earth, which then absorbs it, heats up, and emits infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere absorb most of this infrared radiation and then radiate in the infrared range, which is emitted upward and downward, with part of it absorbed by other atmospheric gases further raising their temperature, part of it escaping to space, and another part reflected downward toward the Earthâs surface (Figure 1.1). The surface and lower atmosphere are warmed by the part of the energy that is radiated downward, making our life on the Earth possible. Without the greenhouse effect, the Earthâs temperature would be too cold for life to exist.
Some GHGs occur naturally and are discharged to the atmosphere through natural processes and human activities, whereas other GHGs are created and emitted only through human activities. The main GHGs that enter the atmosphere as a product of human activities are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydroflourocarbon gases, and sulfur hexafluoride.
Most of the carbon dioxide that enters the atmosphere is a result of the burning of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, and coal), solid waste, trees, and wood products, and other chemical reactions (e.g., manufacture of cement). Carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere, or âsequestered,â when it is absorbed by plants as part of the biological carbon cycle. Methane is given off during the production and transport of coal, natural gas, and oil, from livestock and other agricultural practices, and by the decay of organic waste in municipal solid waste landfills. Nitrous oxide is emitted during agricultural and industrial activities as well as during the combustion of fossil fuels and solid waste. Fluorinated gases such as hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride are synthetic gases that are generated from a variety of industrial processes and sometimes used as substitutes for ozone-depleting substances. Water vapor is not a man-made GHG and is usually not considered a cause of man-made global warming because it does not persist in the atmosphere for more than a few days.
The concept of global warming potential (GWP) describes in one number the different capacities to affect climate change. The GWP is defined as the warming influence over a set time period of a gas relative to that of carbon dioxide, which under the Kyoto protocol is a 100-year time period. The GWP of the gases previously described is indicated in Table 1.1. Even though other gases have a much higher GWP, CO2 is the most prevalent GHG and is the most commonly mentioned, sometimes inappropriately.
Another unit used to measure the impact of these gases in one single standard unit is the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), which also rates these gases based on their 100-year GWP, providing a way to compare emissions from different sources using a common unit of measurement (1 kg CO2e = 1 kg CO2). The standard unit is MtCO2e or metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The global warming impact of all GHGs is measured in terms of equivalency to the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) via GWPs. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) proposes CO2e as the common carbon metric for international use in the gathering of data and reporting of the climate performance of existing buildings to (1) support policies under development to reduce GHG emissions from buildings, (2) provide a framework to measure emission reductions in buildings, and (3) establish a system with measurable reportable and verifiable indicators (UNEP SBCI, 2010). CO2e is the unit of GHG measurement used throughout this book.
Greenhouse Gas | GWP |
Carbon dioxide (CO2) | 1 |
Methane (CH4) | 21 |
Nitrous oxide (N2O) | 310 |
Hydrofluorocarbon gases | 6,500 |
Sulfur hexafluoride | 23,900 |
A global assessment of data since 1970 has demonstrated that âit is likely that anthropogenic warming has had a discernible influence on many physical and biological systemsâ (IPCC, 2007; Parry et al. 2007). Average global surface temperatures have increased by 0.74°C over the past 100 years, and much of the observed rise in sea level (12â22 cm) during the twentieth century is probably related to this increase in global mean temperatures.
1.2 EFFECTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Life on the Earth would not be possible if not for the greenhouse effect; however, an increase in the concentration of anthropogenic GHGs, especially CO2, is affecting climate. The current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate models also predict that global temperatures will rise by an additional 1.1°Câ6.4°C by the end of the twenty-first century, depending on the amount of emissions and how the different variables interrelate as climate changes over time. Global mean sea levels are also predicted to rise by 20â60 cm by 2100. Sea-level rise threatens coastal communities, whereas higher temperatures, drought, and flooding will affect peopleâs health and way of life, causing the irreversible loss of many species of plants and animals. There is no doubt that climate change is the most serious environmental threat facing the planet. Along with warming at the Earthâs surface, more extreme weather events are becoming more common. Heat waves have become more frequent and are lasting longer. The height of extreme sea levels caused by storms has increased. Warming is expected to cause more intense, heavy rainfall events.
Except for a leveling off between the 1940s and the 1970s, the surface temperature of the Earth has steadily increased since 1880, and since the 1990s, it has increased at a faster rate in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere. The highest values ever recorded in both hemispheres have been reached in this decade (2000â2015). The current data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth observatory (Figure 1.2) shows how the five-year running average continues to increase, especially after 1980. A warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes have been unprecedented over decades to millennia.
The IPCCâs Fifth Assessment Report (2013) concluded that the scientific evidence for a warming climate is undeniable and that âhuman influence on the climate system is clear.â Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earthâs surface than any preceding decade since 1850 (see Figure 1.3), and the period 1983â2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the past 1400 years (medium confidence). The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated by a linear trend show a warming of 0.85°C (0.65°Câ1.06°C), over the period 1880â2012, when multiple independently produced datasets exist.
The evidence for human influence has grown since 4th Assessment Report (AR4). The IPCC states (2013) that âit is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid twentieth century.â Figure 1.4 compares the observed and simulated climate changes based on three large-scale indicators in the atmosphere, the cryosphere, and the ocean: change in continental land surface air temperatures (yellow panels), Arctic and Antarctic September sea ice extent (white panels), and upper ocean heat content in the major ocean basins (blue panels). Global average changes are also given. Anomalies are given relative to 1880â1919 for surface temperatures, 1960â1980 for ocean heat content, and 1979â1999 for sea ice. All time series are decadal averages, plotted at the center of the decade. For temperature panels, observations are dashed lines if the spatial coverage of areas being examined is <50%. For ocean heat content and sea ice panels, the solid line is where the coverage of data is good and higher in quality, and the dashed line is where the data coverage is only adequate, and thus, uncertainty is larger (Figure 1.5).
The effects can be seen over ocean, land, and ice. Observations of climate changes from AR4 include warming throughout much of the worldâs oceans, increasing rates of global mean sea-level rise, changes in ocean salinity, acidification of the oceans, more frequent warm days and nights and fewer cold days and nights, reductions in the number of frost days, decreasing snow cover in most regions, degrading permafrost in extent and thickness, large-scale precipitation changes, increase in the number of heavy precipitation events, shrinking annual average Artic sea ice extent, widespread glacier retreat, and changes in ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. These are all discussed in great detail in 5th Assessment Report (AR5) (IPCC, 2013).