Embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 Norwegian dairy farms - Introducing the building construction approach to agriculture
Embodied energy in barns is found to contribute to about 10-30% of total energy use on dairy farms. Nevertheless, research on sustainability of dairy farming has largely excluded consideration of embodied energy. The main objectives of this study were to apply an established model from the residenti...
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| author | Koesling, M. Ruge, Gesa Fystro, G. Torp, T. Hansen, S. |
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| description | Embodied energy in barns is found to contribute to about 10-30% of total energy use on dairy farms. Nevertheless, research on sustainability of dairy farming has largely excluded consideration of embodied energy. The main objectives of this study were to apply an established model from the residential and commercial building sector and estimate the amount of embodied energy in the building envelopes on 20 dairy farms in Norway. Construction techniques varied across the buildings and our results showed that the variables which contributed most significantly to levels of embodied energy were the area per cow-place, use of concrete in walls and insulation in concrete walls. Our findings are in contrast to the assumption that buildings are similar and would show no significant differences. We conclude that the methodology is sufficiently flexible to accommodate different building design and use of materials, and allows for an efficient means of estimating embodied energy reducing the work compared to a mass material calculation. Choosing a design that requires less material or materials with a low amount of embodied energy, can significantly reduce the amount of embodied energy in buildings. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-949682024-05-24T08:47:02Z Embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 Norwegian dairy farms - Introducing the building construction approach to agriculture Koesling, M. Ruge, Gesa Fystro, G. Torp, T. Hansen, S. Embodied energy in barns is found to contribute to about 10-30% of total energy use on dairy farms. Nevertheless, research on sustainability of dairy farming has largely excluded consideration of embodied energy. The main objectives of this study were to apply an established model from the residential and commercial building sector and estimate the amount of embodied energy in the building envelopes on 20 dairy farms in Norway. Construction techniques varied across the buildings and our results showed that the variables which contributed most significantly to levels of embodied energy were the area per cow-place, use of concrete in walls and insulation in concrete walls. Our findings are in contrast to the assumption that buildings are similar and would show no significant differences. We conclude that the methodology is sufficiently flexible to accommodate different building design and use of materials, and allows for an efficient means of estimating embodied energy reducing the work compared to a mass material calculation. Choosing a design that requires less material or materials with a low amount of embodied energy, can significantly reduce the amount of embodied energy in buildings. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/94968 10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.09.012 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Koesling, M. Ruge, Gesa Fystro, G. Torp, T. Hansen, S. Embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 Norwegian dairy farms - Introducing the building construction approach to agriculture |
| title | Embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 Norwegian dairy farms - Introducing the building construction approach to agriculture |
| title_full | Embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 Norwegian dairy farms - Introducing the building construction approach to agriculture |
| title_fullStr | Embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 Norwegian dairy farms - Introducing the building construction approach to agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 Norwegian dairy farms - Introducing the building construction approach to agriculture |
| title_short | Embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 Norwegian dairy farms - Introducing the building construction approach to agriculture |
| title_sort | embodied and operational energy in buildings on 20 norwegian dairy farms - introducing the building construction approach to agriculture |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/94968 |