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International standards and constantly smarter practices are everyday more addressing the issue of a sustainable development. However, this virtuous approach has to involve the final users, in a newer and wider perspective: People First. This is the aim of the Active House Alliance, proposing a new vision for the future of the construction sector. Indoor comfort and occupants’ wellbeing, energy efficiency and renewable sources exploitation, eco-friendly approaches are integrated into new guidelines and technical prescriptions, to help designers in developing the active buildings of the future.
This chapter is authored by Lone Feifer and Marco Imperadori.
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Feifer, L., Imperadori, M., Salvalai, G., Brambilla, A., Brunone, F. (2018). What Is an Active House? A Vision Beyond 2020. In: Active House: Smart Nearly Zero Energy Buildings. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90814-4_1
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