Since historic buildings constitute 25% of the European built environment they have a role to play in delivering CO2 emissions reduction targets along with the rest of the domestic stock. However, historic buildings have significant cultural value and were built …
The building sector is one of the key consumers of energy in Europe; consequently, European Union has enacted several directives dealing, directly and indirectly, with energy efficiency in building aiming to reduce the buildings energy use. Those directives, while dealing …
Energy retrofit of historic buildings is a relatively new task in the construction sector. It is therefore important to offer reliable solutions to practitioners and end-users that prevent any undesired outcome. Often, the lack of trust and awareness of the …
Improving the energy performance of historic districts and their buildings is a balancing act between retaining their heritage significance and allowing the installation of retrofit measures. This paper describes a heritage impact assessment methodology to enable such a balancing process …
The topic of refurbishing historical buildings is one of the energy challenges all over Europe. In this scenario, AiCARR developed a proposal for a conscious approach in energy retrofitting
The European project Energy Efficiency for EU Historic Districts Sustainability (EFFESUS) aims to develop and demonstrate a methodology for assessing and selecting energy efficiency interventions in historic urban districts. This paper will give an overview of the whole project with …
The paper draws from the general literature on energy efficiency and historic buildings to explain the importance and potential of user-driven energy efficiency in historic buildings. It is the first review that places the user as a central object of …
The building sector brings the main responsibility for energy consumption and GHG emissions in European countries. Although many policies have been placed across the EU to increase building energy performance, the current home energy renovation rate remains too low to …
The energetic and comfort optimization of these buildings, however,is not yet generally accepted and therefore a more delicate discussion. (Too) often these buildings are (too easily) exempted from adaptations because: the reconciliation of energy savings / comfort optimization and heritage …
We proudly present the postprints of the third International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings, held in Visby, Sweden September 26th to 27th, 2018. The conference was organized jointly by the Swedish Energy Agency, Uppsala University and the Swedish …