U-ZED: Urban Zero-Energy Districts. Development of a methodological approach towards the decision for zero energy district planning
Description de la recherche
In a continuously changing world, where the impacts of climate change and urbanization in modern cities are becoming increasingly more obvious and disastrous, European policies target more sustainable actions to ensure the liveability of future agglomerations and the QoL of their citizens. This work aims to develop a supporting methodological decision-making process approach to articulate the challenge of the zero-energy applicability in districts. U-ZED (Urban – Zero Energy Districts) aims to become an option decision process for cities’ actors to develop policies of zero energy planning in large territorials. U-ZED expresses the strategic decision for planning in a district from the early phase of its conception considering the KPIs affecting the consumption in order to reduce the requirements of its users and its built environment.
U-ZED aims to:
- Develop a decision support multi-criteria approach as an alternative option of optimizing the users’ energy requirements.
- Explore a parametrical algorithmic approach to assess, compare and propose district models with zero energy standards.
- Identify quantitative indicators and factors for the required territorial scale.
- Suggest and general NZED models reflecting the balance of the recommended indicators.
- Fill in the gap in the scientific review and practical application of the zero-energy concept in its spatial dimension.
- Address the European initiatives regarding the impacts of climate change by developing holistic strategies in larger territorial scales.
Mots-clés : Distict, Enegy, KPIs, Methodology, Zero