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The current research answers the question whether the energy efficiency resulting from the application of modern technologies is associated with savings at the scale of individual housing units, and further – at the scale of whole cities and countries. Therefore, the results indicate whether under certain climatic and economic conditions, the further improvement of the energy parameters of buildings is profitable. The research was carried out on a selected, heterogeneous fragment of housing development in Wroc?aw....

Is it possible to design near zero energy buildings without the use of technologically advanced but costly solutions? Or – the other way around - is the use of expensive technical solutions effective from the point of view of the energy balance of the building? Can the overall environmental costs of a home, meeting the tightening up standards of energy consumption in buildings, be higher than anticipated savings? The paper answers these questions, basing on an analysis of the results of measurements of thermal p...

The aim of the research is to improve the quality of education in the field of sustainable design at the Faculty of Architecture of Wroclaw University of Technology. The paper describes subjects and courses on sustainability and the effects of evolving the learning process on the example of the course “Designing Sustainable Living Environment” in the years 2011-2015. The study involved three groups of 30 students enrolled in classes taking place at the 2nd degree studies. In subsequent years, output parameters...