Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review.

In recent years, energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings have become high-interest topics among scholars. Research has demonstrated that retrofitting buildings to current energy efficiency and thermal comfort standards is essential for improving sustainability and energy performance and …

Post-occupancy evaluation of a historic primary school in Spain: Comparing PMV, TSV and PD for teachers’ and pupils’ thermal comfort.

With attention increasingly shifting toward adaptation and energy upgrade of existing and historic buildings, research on Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) has grown notably in recent years. School buildings are a significant asset to the European building stock and an important field …

Environmental policies for GHG emissions reduction and energy transition in the medieval historic centre of Siena (Italy): the role of solar energy.

The cities are playing a leading role in action to reduce the global CO2 emissions. In this paper a greenhouse gas (GHG) balance of the medieval historic centre of Siena (Tuscany, Italy) has been performed for the first time. It …

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 …

Energy Efficient Retrofit of a Protected Building of Historical Significance

In the UK, historically or architecturally significant buildings that are of special interest are protected by the English Heritage that makes every effort to preserve them. There are over 370,000 listed buildings in the country, and over 92% of them …

A systematic approach for major renovation of residential buildings.

In Sweden, buildings are responsible for about 40 % of total energy use and about 10 % of total CO2 emissions Today more than 60 % of existing Swedish residential buildings are over 40 years old and are in need …

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 …