Energy Functional Retrofitting of Historic Residential Buildings: The Case Study of the Historic Center of Perugia.
The built heritage is characterized by an average low energy performance, but it is often excluded from studies and retrofit scenarios. In Italy, as in Europe, the building sector is the most energy consuming and pollutant. Italy accounts for 40% …
The Recurrent Characteristics of Historic Buildings as a Support to Improve their Energy Performances: The Case Study of Palermo.
The analysis of the recurrent characteristics of the local historic architecture is useful to develop large-scale energy analyses, regulations and financial strategies, but also to support technical guidelines for an energy improvement balanced with conservation. For this purpose, a multi-scale …
Supplying historic buildings with energy, without impinging on their historic and cultural values.
The Venetian Villas are an historic body of 3782 buildings in Veneto and Friuli from the XVI century to the XVIII century. UNESCO has certified 24 villas of Andrea Palladio as World Heritage Sites. The Regional Institute for the protection …
Towards a systematic approach for energy refurbishment of historical buildings. The case study of Albergo dei Poveri in Genoa, Italy.
The article deals with the main problems arising during the sustainable renovation process and energy refurbishment of historical architecture. In particular, it focuses on the feasibility study for a huge historical listed building, aiming at its progressive and complete re-utilization …
On the classification of large residential buildings stocks by sample typologies for energy planning purposes.
Local and central administrations are often called to properly allocate economic resources intended for the territorial energy planning, on the basis of the performances achieved by implementing energy conservation measures. Particularly in the residential sector, that represents one of the …
Guidelines on energy efficiency of cultural heritage.
The AiCARR Guidelines “Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings” (February 2014) provide information to evaluate and improve the energy performance of historic buildings, fully respecting their significance and expression; where applicable these Guidelines will include the most recent legislation on the …
Integrated Methodologies Energy Efficiency of Historic Buildings.
For several years, Italian associations and research organizations have been developing strategies aimed at evaluating and increasing energy efficiency in historic buildings, offering a sort of guidelines about this issue. These strategies are intended to provide useful information for a …
Guidelines for Eco-efficiency in the UNESCO Site of Cinque Terre: An Example of Good Practice.
The paper discusses the results of a recent research focussed on the formulation of criteria of landscape and architectural compatibility to set up Guidelines to achieve eco-efficiency and install renewable energy source applications for domestic or agricultural use in the …
Methodological framework for assessment of energy behavior of historic towns in Mediterranean climate
Within the ongoing international debate on methods and tools that might help include the built heritage as strategic target within the policies for NZE buildings, the paper develops a methodological framework for performance assessment and control of historic buildings and …