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Abstract
Aimed at real estate industry professionals, developers, and
investors, this thesis fully explains the best practices and methods for
retrofitting an existing building to be sustainable, increasing the
efficiency of resource use while reducing building impacts on human
health and the environment.
The research also focuses on mixed use buildings, their progress,
needs and most of the aspects that should be taken in consideration
during the process of retrofitting and displays number of examples of
buildings that have been retrofitted and reused, these examples vary in
the scale of work that have been done whether applying a deep or
conventional energy retrofit.
The research studies the strategies and techniques, used to achieve
high performance of sustainability, and reach a comprehensive design
methodology for retrofitted projects for designers to follow in order to
reach a sustainable performance.