Generic Energy Efficiency Assessment for heritage buildings; Wekalat El-Ghouri as a case study, Cairo, Egypt.
Passively designed buildings are the tradition of historic areas of metropolitan Cairo. According to UNESCO, Cairo was inscribed on the World Heritage in 1979 under the title of “Islamic Cairo”, recognizing its unquestionable historical, archaeological and urbanistic importance. Among Islamic …
LEED v4.1 operations & maintenance for existing buildings and compliance assessment: Bayt Al-Suhaymi, Historic Cairo.
The architectural design and environmental treatments have shown a large impact on environmental indoor performance and energy efficiency of buildings. Designers have been working on more efficient buildings using tools like the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) which …
Co-creation of local eco-rehabilitation strategies for energy improvement of historic urban areas. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Energy performance and thermal comfort in historic and traditional urban environments are important because of the social and cultural requirement to conserve these areas as living entities, but also for the environmental obligation to decrease the impact of existing buildings …
Moisture influence on the thermal operation of the late 19th century brick facade, in a historic building in the city of zamora
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 …
Trilemma of historic buildings: Smart district heating systems, bioeconomy and energy efficiency.
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. …
Evaluation of natural-based internal insulation systems in historic buildings through a holistic approach.
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 …
Field Measurements for Verification of the Impact of Renovation and Maintenance Measures on Buildings: – regarding Energy Efficiency, Indoor Environment and Moisture Safety.
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 …
New guidance on renewables energy in World Heritage Properties or their vicinity (UNESCO) & ASHP (Historic Environment Scotland)
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
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 …