Feasibility of Using Energy Performance Contracting for the Retrofit of Apartment Buildings in Slovakia
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2022-09-01
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Mark
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Sciendo
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This study is focused on the feasibility of using energy performance contracting (EPC) for the retrofit of two apartment buildings constructed using precast concrete technologies in Slovakia decades ago. The retrofit packages were defined, and their suitability for EPC was evaluated through discounted payback. The uncertainties in the profitability calculations were covered by designing five possible economic developments and defining input ranges instead of just single inputs. The measures in the technical systems were shown to be more feasible than the retrofit of the building envelopes. The potential to finance the selected measures for technical systems through EPC was further evaluated. It was shown that, for at least one of the two buildings studied, the EPC was recommended only for the economic developments with a notable increase in energy prices compared to the baseline that referred to the situation before the Covid-19 pandemic. In the best case, the payback was four years for one building and seven years for the other; thus, both were potentially suitable for EPC. However, for a complex retrofit, the EPC must be combined with a different funding source to also finance other retrofit measures.
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Slovak Journal of Civil Emgineering. 2022, vol. 30, issue 3, p. 33-42.
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/sjce-2022-0019
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/sjce-2022-0019
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en