To improve the energy performance of restored cultural heritage buildings, it is necessary to know the real values of thermal conductivity of its envelope, mainly of the facades, and to study an intervention strategy that does not interfere with the …
Today buildings become part of Smart Energy Systems. 4th generation district heating network requires buildings with low energy consumption. In Europe, historic buildings account for around 30% from total buildings stock with high energy consumption which has to be reduced. …
Historic buildings are defining elements of city centres but also responsible for a large share of greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reduce their energy demand, it is important to improve envelopes’ thermal transmittance without damaging the historic integrity of …
Renovating the European building stock has for almost two decades been a matter of importance to the European Union. Reduction of energy use for existing buildings can be achieved through applying energy efficiency renovation measures. Besides this, there is quite …
The World Heritage and Renewable Energy – Guidance on Wind and Solar Energy Projects in a World Heritage Context provides practical advice for States Parties, site managers, planners, developers and other actors on how to align the protection of World …
dataholz.eu is an online catalog of wood and wood-based materials, building materials, components and component connections for timber construction. The basis for this is a project launched in 2000 called "Component catalog". Due to the rapidly development of timber construction …
International conference, Leipzig, 7-9 November 2018. - In accordance with the motto “Sharing Heritage” of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018, ICOMOS Russia and ICOMOS Germany as well as partner organisations prepared an international conference on model projects of 20th …
The global challenge of large-scale climate change mitigation requires action also in the building and construction sector. From a life cycle perspective, and considering the mitigation timeframe, the issue of reducing embodied GHG emissions is gaining attention. Effective ways to …
Historic Scotland commissioned this technical paper to assess the effectiveness of two inexpensive and minimally invasive methods for improving the thermal performance of single glazed windows. This report describes the work conducted by the Scottish Energy Centre (SEC) at Edinburgh …
A recent concern on the time scale of architectural and urban heritage of historic city centres, energy efficiency of existing buildings takes on a major and universal dimension in response to climate change. thermal renovation works will have consequences and …