Energy efficient envelope of container-based housing system

对保持健康和舒适生活的基本条件的低成本建筑结构的需求正在增加。另一方面，在发达国家和发展中国家，建筑物占全球能源消耗的40%以上，约占温室气体排放总量的三分之一。开发降低住宅单元成本的方法，同时增加能源效率措施，有可能解决巨大的住房需求，并减轻建筑环境的负面环境影响，包括减少温室气体排放。拟议的项目旨在展示改善建筑围护结构（如墙壁、屋顶、地板和窗户）的热性能对提高集装箱住房的能源性能的影响，从而解决建筑环境的可负担性和能源效率问题。

The need for low cost building structures that maintain the basic conditions for healthy and comfortable living is increasing. Buildings on the other hand are responsible for more than 40 % of global energy consumption, and about third of the overall greenhouse gas emissions, in both developed and developing countries. Developing methods to reduce the cost of residential units while increasing energy efficiency measures has the potential to address the vast housing need and to alleviate the negative environmental impact of the built environment including the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The proposed project aims at demonstrating the impact of improving thermal properties of the building envelope (e.g. walls, roof, floor, and windows) on enhancing the energy performance of container-based housing, addressing, thus, both affordability and energy efficiency of the built environment.