Abstract
In this study, the carbon emissions from old buildings in selected regions of the Masan downtown area were estimated. Recently, there has been research on the carbon emissions in cities and metropolitan areas in Korea. However, there has not been any related research focusing on specific areas of a city containing severely old buildings for the purpose of urban regeneration. As for the IPCC guideline, which is used to estimate the carbon emission based on the amount of energy used by the target area, data on public energy sources can be easily obtained and utilized, whereas it is difficult to make an accurate estimation of the individual energy sources. The carbon emission calculation method of using the basic unit of nationwide and regional areas is deemed inappropriate for predicting the energy consumption pattern in an old city center as they are average estimates of carbon emissions from the entire nation and metropolitan areas. In order to reflect the characteristics of the buildings in an old city center, representative buildings were selected and a field survey was conducted in order to perform an energy simulation. The carbon emissions from the buildings, classified according to their purpose and year of construction, were estimated and the resulting values were multiplied by the gross floor area of buildings of the same pattern as a means to estimate the total carbon emission.
