Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Dilution effect of the building area on energy intensity in urban residential buildings

  • Jingxin Gao,
  • Xiaoyang Zhong,
  • Weiguang Cai,
  • Hong Ren,
  • Tengfei Huo,
  • Xia Wang,
  • Zhifu Mi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12852-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Improving residential building energy consumption (RBEC) efficiency is important. The authors here test whether the measure truly reflects efficiency, and found that RBEC per square meter decreases with the increase of the building area per household, indicating the dilution effect.