The energy performance improvement of historic buildings and their environmental sustainability assessment. 

The changes in present world oblige the scientific community working on Cultural Heritage to face every day more urgent challenges of “sustainability”. This concept refers to a very broad horizon, touching various spheres: cultural, economic, social, environmental, before the purely …

The Impact of the Energy Performance Improvement of Historic Buildings on the Environmental Sustainability. 

Energy restoration and retrofitting. Rethinking restoration projects by means of a reversibility/sustainability assessment. 

The Challenge of Energy Efficiency in Kiruna’s Heritage Buildings. 

The town of Kiruna, founded in 1900 in the northernmost part of Sweden, is nowadays in the middle of an impressive urban transformation: due to the impacts of mining activities a large part of the city center has to be …

Standardizing the indoor climate in historic buildings: opportunities, challenges and ways forward.

Standardization for indoor climate control in historic buildings has recently taken a new direction with standards and guidelines that focus more on decision processes than outcomes. The objective of the paper is to explore and discuss how standards can evolve …

Energy policy and conservation planning in Sweden: a longitudinal evaluation.

Sweden, like other countries, has set ambitious national targets for both energy efficiency and conservation of heritage values in the built environment. However, how these policies are implemented on a local level and how they affect each other is not …

A Legacy of Energy Saving: The Discussion on Heritage Values in the First Programme on Energy Efficiency in Buildings in Sweden, c. 1974–1984. 

The paper analyses the ‘energy savings plan for existing buildings’ (EBB) introduced in Sweden after the first oil crisis of 1973, and how effects of policies on the built heritage were perceived and communicated to a wider public. A conflict …

The implementation of energy saving policies and their influence on energy use and cultural values in the housing stock of Sweden.

Introduction: The overall objective is to understand how policies may be used to increase the potential for saving energy while simultaneously preserving cultural values in the housing stock. The project contributes to SDGs 11, 17, 5, 8 and 10. Methods: …

Strategies of building stock renovation for ageing society.

The existing building stock has an immense impact on preserving a social, economic and ecologic sustainability – especially in Central Europe with low rates of new construction. This paper focuses on life-cycle based renovation strategies considering not only structural and …

Achieving Energy and Cost Savings through Simple Daylighting Control in Tropical Historic Buildings. 

Electricity is an important element used to run plant, lighting and other equipment in buildings. An appropriate well-designed lighting system is required for energy saving since the lighting consumption is dependent on the activities of the occupants of the buildings. …