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Building Mounted Wind Turbines on Existing Multi-Storey Housing

Tim Sharpe (MEARU, Mackintosh School of Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art, 11 Dalhousie Street Glasgow, G3 6RQ, UK)

Open House International

ISSN: 0168-2601

Article publication date: 1 September 2008

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Abstract

One of the most significant challenges facing contemporary architectural and urban design is how it can become more sustainable. Energy consumption by housing is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and a cause of depletion of non-renewable energy sources. Of particular concern is existing stock, which has the worst performance and is hardest to improve.

One means of addressing these issues that is attracting increasing interest is the integration of embedded renewable energy technologies. This paper discusses the use of wind turbines on buildings as a response to climate change legislation. It examines the potential for embedded generation in a specific built form (existing high rise housing) and places this in the context of a particular geographical location (Glasgow, Scotland) where the existing provision is highly problematic, but which also presents significant potential. It describes findings from two projects in Glasgow, a pilot installation on a city centre multi-storey block, and subsequent feasibility study for a Housing Association managed multi-storey block and identifies the problems and opportunities that may be applied in similar projects elsewhere.

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Sharpe, T. (2008), "Building Mounted Wind Turbines on Existing Multi-Storey Housing", Open House International, Vol. 33 No. 3, pp. 60-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-03-2008-B0007

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