Table 1.

A taxonomy of the literature

Author and yearStudy focusThemeContext
Book section StrategiesData and monitoringBSGeneral
Kolokotsa et al. (2022)  Definitions and trends: nearly zero-energy and positive-energy buildings General
Mello (2023) Policy and strategiesSustainable and affordable housingPOECD
Kim and Altan (2023) PolicyEE policies introduced by the government to improve indoor environmental qualityPUK
Conference paperFrandoloso et al. (2018) SustainabilityEducational institutionsBS 
Petri et al. (2018) StrategiesBIM TrainingBS 
Wagner et al. (2019) PolicyMerging sufficiency into EE policiesPGermany
Androutsopoulos et al. (2020) PolicyTesting the ENERFUND toolP/assEU
Antoniadou et al. (2020) BuildingsBuilding façade technologiesBS/CGreece
Giama et al. (2020) PolicyNZEB regulatory toolsPCyprus,
Greece
Sulzer et al. (2020) PolicyTechnical energy regulationsP/assSwitzerland
Radoine et al. (2021) BuildingsClimate-responsive design using local materialsM/CMorocco
von Platten et al. (2021) PolicyTesting the new building code against income groupsP/assSweden
Journal articleOzarisoy and Altan (2018) BuildingsRetrofit strategiesS 
Moraci et al. (2018) BuildingsEE Urban morphologiesS/man 
Martin et al. (2018) BuildingsRental markets International
Giacomin et al. (2019) PolicyBuilding labellingP/assBrazil
Berry et al. (2019) PolicyEnvironmental BRS vs national codesP/assAustralia
Gokarakonda et al. (2019) PolicyDecoupling of economic growth from resource consumptionP/assIndia
Lee et al. (2019) PolicyRetrofit strategiesBSKorea
Zhao et al. (2019) StrategiesBenchmarking the GBMBSBrazil
Silvero et al. (2020) PolicyEE for sustainable developmentPParaguay
Berry et al. (2022) PolicyCombining policy packagesPAustralia
Bilardo et al. (2022) PolicyStandardised assessment methodologyPEU
Lakusic (2022) PolicyEnergy performance and construction qualityP/assTurkey
Massimo et al. (2022) BuildingsRental marketsMItaly
Mafalda Matos et al. (2022) PolicyEnergy poverty and thermal building regulationsPPortugal
Ozarisoy and Altan (2022) StrategiesEP evaluation strategy and certification schemeBSCyprus
Shukla et al. (2022) PolicyZIP Code-Level Air Pollution Policy Assessment (ZAPPA) toolP/assNew York
Tsai and Tsai (2022) PolicyRegulation for green building materials and trend analysis of energy consumptionP/ConTaiwan
Seyrek Şık et al. (2022) Buildingsenergy-efficient vertical green façade systemsS/CliEU
Effrosyni Giama et al. (2023) Strategiesenergy and environmental evaluation of renewable energy technologiesBS 
Keles and Yazicioglu (2021) StrategiesEducational institutionsBSTurkey
Newspaper articleCossins-Smith (2023) PolicyRejection of the heating Law to phase out fossil fuel systemsPGermany
Jones (2023) PolicyNature Restoration Law as part of the EU’s Green DealPEU
Boraks (2023) PolicyBuilding code updates are frozen till 2031PUSA – North Carolina
Burns (2023) PolicyNew energy performance standards for large buildings targeting carbon emissions reductions of 7% by 2026 and 20% by 2030 from a 2021 baseline for buildings over 50000m2PUSA – Colorado
Review articleWang (2018) PolicyChallenges in policy implementationP 
Saretta et al. (2019) BuildingsRenewable energy systemsBSGeneral
Lu et al. (2020) PolicyPromotion of renewable energyP/REChina
Denmark
Germany
UK
USA
Rashed et al. (2023) BuildingsData and monitoring for sustainabilityBS 
Remizov et al. (2023) StrategiesClimate mapping for buildingsS/CliGeneral
Qiang et al. (2023) BuildingsNexus between Building Automation Systems (BAS) and Green BuildingsBSGeneral
Psillaki et al. (2023) BuildingsHospital energy monitoring strategies, assessment and upgrading through technologyBS 
Prozuments et al. (2023) BuildingsTrombe wall technology - passive building solar heating systemS/Cli 
Hafez et al. (2023) BuildingsEE for carbon mitigation, limiting energy use, improving BEP, and reducing energy consumptionSGeneral
Melo (2023) PolicyDecarbonisation strategies in the housing sectorS 
Alrasheed and Mourshed (2023) StrategiesPassive cooling strategies to mitigate overheatingS/CliEU
UK
Notes:

BS = building system; P = policy; P/ass = policy assessment; S = strategy; S/Cli = climate-responsive strategy

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