GX Research Hub · English
GX & Decarbonization Research
This page provides an English interface to the gxceed GX paper corpus. The corpus aggregates papers from 14 contributing scholarly metadata sources and uses AI-assisted classification to identify signals related to measurement, policy narratives, outcomes, implementation, industrial adoption, and verification.
The goal is not only to discover papers, but to observe how GX research is distributed across research substance, implementation narratives, external expectations, implementation substance, and judgment formation.
Summaries are AI-assisted. Always refer to the original paper for authoritative conclusions.
Peer-reviewedJournalce/papers2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
High‐Performance and Low‐Carbon Concrete Solutions for Thinner, Greener, and Durable Double‐Wall Systems
Mark Betar, Eckhard Wagner, Stefan Östman
This study optimized precast double-wall systems using high-performance concrete (HPC) panels and low-carbon concrete cores to improve material efficiency and sustainability. HPC allowed substantial panel thinning while maintaining mechanic…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalInternational Journal of Research Publication and Reviews2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Developing Environmental Sustainability Frameworks for Managing Energy, Water, and Emissions Impacts of Expanding Data Centres
Bobur Bayero
This study proposes an integrated environmental sustainability framework for managing the energy, water, and emissions impacts of expanding data centres driven by cloud, AI, and HPC. It combines measurable indicators (energy efficiency, ren…
Peer-reviewedJournalSustainability2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Social Housing Retrofit in a Climate Change Context: A Case Study in Beira Interior, Portugal
Pedro Brandão, João Carlos Gonçalves Lanzinha
This study evaluates how envelope retrofit measures affect indoor thermal performance under heat conditions in a representative social housing dwelling in Beira Interior, Portugal, using a calibrated numerical model. Dynamic simulations acr…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergy Efficiency2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Energy efficiency first for homes? Public priorities, barriers and residential energy choices in six European countries
Johan Nordensvärd, Emma Lindkvist, Fayas Malik Kanchiralla +10
A cross-national survey of 1,014 respondents in six European countries examines how households perceive and prioritise residential energy efficiency measures relevant to the EU's Energy Efficiency First principle. Support for insulation, wi…
Peer-reviewedJournalConsumption and Society2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
The politics of enough: structuring efficiency–sufficiency tensions in Latvian renovation decisions
Kārlis Lakševics
Drawing on 35 interviews, homeowner-meeting observation and citizen labs in Latvia, the paper examines how residents interpret efficiency (retrofit) and sufficiency (demand reduction) in multi-apartment renovation decisions. It identifies t…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalBuildings2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Environmental and Economic Performance of 3D Printing in Construction: Life Cycle Evidence, Costs, and System Boundaries
Ali Tighnavard Balasbaneh, Willy Sher
A comprehensive review of LCA and LCC studies on 3D-printed construction. Interest has surged since 2021, but reported GWP differences are highly heterogeneous and cannot be pooled as a common effect size, shifting with functional unit, sys…
Peer-reviewedJournalFuture Cities and Environment2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Single-Family Wooden House That Chases the Sun and Saved Energy
Gianfranco Castrovinci, Mercedes Galiana
A study estimating energy gains from a solar-tracking single-family timber house, calculated across 21 Italian locations (11 representative sites reported). Rotating the building at the Sun's apparent speed with climate-adjusted incidence a…
Peer-reviewedJournalMaterials2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Thermoelectric Building Cementitious Materials: A Review of Thermoelectric Mechanisms, Performance Modulation, and Engineering Applications
Xing Chen, Shuo Wang, Peng-Fei Zhang +3
Reviews thermoelectric cementitious materials that combine building waste-heat recovery with structural self-sensing. It compares Portland-cement and alkali-activated systems, covering ionic/hole/electron transport, modification via carbon …
Peer-reviewedJournalEngineering Research Express2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Sustainability comparison of wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) and pure machining using LCA, environmental prices and cost analysis: a case study on a low carbon steel pipe reducer
Mohammad Mahdi Tavallaei, Hossein Feiz Arefy, Mahdi Mazloom Farsibaf +2
This study compares WAAM with pure machining for a low-carbon steel eccentric pipe reducer using cradle-to-gate LCA (ReCiPe 2016), Environmental Prices monetization, life cycle costing, and Monte Carlo simulation. WAAM cut material waste by…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalETA Florence2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Generating Equity, Nurturing Diversity, Energising Resilience for Power Against Energy Poverty
U.E. Birgi, Rita Mergner, D. Rutz +1
The EU LIFE project GENDER4POWER demonstrates holistic, gender-responsive, multi-stakeholder solutions in renewable energy and efficiency to improve the lives of energy-poor households. It presents its community 'Shine On Ambassadors' engag…
Peer-reviewedJournalProcesses2025#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Guidelines for Reducing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Frozen Seafood Processing Factory Towards Carbon Neutrality Goals
Iamchamnan P.
A practice-oriented set of guidelines for cutting greenhouse gas emissions at a frozen seafood processing factory in pursuit of carbon neutrality. It organizes operational emission-reduction measures for plant-level decarbonization, though …
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalInternational Business & Economics Studies2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
The Mechanism of Digital Economy Development on Energy Intensity under the “Dual Carbon” Goals
Menghan Ge
Using panel data from 30 Chinese provinces (2011–2020), this study finds that digital economy development significantly lowers energy intensity, with robustness checks confirming the result. The effect is stronger in non-resource-based prov…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalScientific Data2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Carbon footprint and energy-related performance indicators of Mediterranean and Black Sea trawl fisheries
Tommaso Russo, Maria Silvia Labriola, Carmen Ferrà +4
This data descriptor harmonises EU fleet economic data with spatially resolved fishing effort and landings to produce four gridded datasets of fuel consumption, fuel costs, and energy performance indicators for Mediterranean and Black Sea t…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalDiscover Sustainability2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Development and performance assessment of low-carbon perlite–silica fume mortar for sustainable buildings applications
Umar Ashraf, Omar Basha, Tariq Khattab +1
This study experimentally assesses silica-fume-modified expanded-perlite mortars, varying perlite moisture condition, binary aggregate gradation, and curing regime. Oven curing lowered density and thermal conductivity (down to ~0.21 W/mK), …
Peer-reviewedJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
BIM-DRIVEN PARAMETERIZATION FOR OPTIMIZING LOW-CARBON STRUCTURAL MATERIAL ALLOCATION IN HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
Dr. M. Adil Khan,Dr. M. Shoaib Ashraf,Hafiza Sarah Iqbal,Waleed Arshad,Halar Mustafa,Engr. Ahmed Mujtaba,Md Abu Syed
A study on BIM-driven parameterization to optimize low-carbon structural material allocation in high-rise buildings. It appears to target design-stage reduction of embodied carbon alongside material efficiency. Findings and quantitative res…
Peer-reviewedJournalEngineering Sciences2026#Energy Efficiency
Low-carbon building materials for sustainable construction: environmental performance, challenges and future research directions
Ursula Maíra Maciel Rigon Leão
Structured review of 20 high-impact studies (2020–2025) on low-carbon building materials and LCA methods. SCMs and alternative binders cut GWP by up to 25%, geopolymers by 69–77%, and mass timber/CLT shows the lowest median whole-life embod…
Preprint🇪🇺 EuropeZenodo2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
exPEDite CBA Tools
Sarcina, Andrea, Corti, Franco
A Python toolkit for cost-benefit analysis of building- and district-scale energy interventions. It implements the EU 2025/2273 global cost method, computing NPV, benefit-cost ratio, payback period and CO2 abatement cost, monetising GHG and…
PreprintZenodo2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE NECESSITY OF RECONSTRUCTING CENTRALIZED HEAT SUPPLY IN UKRAINEIN THE CONTEXT OF BIOSPHERE COMPATIBILITY
Guliev J., Predun K., Mammadov N.
Ukrainian district heating systems built in the 1950s-80s are obsolete, with transport heat losses exceeding 20% and wasting at least 8% of national gas use. Carbon prices remain under 1% of the EU average, misaligned with Paris goals. The …
PreprintZenodo2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
HeatPumpLab
Walmsley, Timothy Gordon
HeatPumpLab provides Python models of high-temperature heat pump cycles for industrial process heat, including recuperative, cascade, MVR, sCO2 Brayton and steam-generating configurations. It uses CoolProp or REFPROP fluid properties and of…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalSustainability2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Sustainable Recovery or Carbon Rebound: Provincial Tourism Carbon Emission Efficiency in China Based on a Common-Frontier SBM and LMDI Decomposition
Wenqian Qi, Qinyuan Zhang, Naipeng Tom Bu +3
Provincial tourism carbon emission efficiency in China is measured with a common-frontier SBM including undesirable outputs, paired with Tapio decoupling and LMDI decomposition. Direct operational emissions fell from 107.6 Mt (2019) to 43.7…