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Energy Sustainable Operations on Historical Buildings

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2020) | Viewed by 6802

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Prof. Dr. Carla Balocco

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Department of Architecture, DiDA. University of Florence, via Mattonaia, 14 Firenze, Italy
Interests: building physics and plant systems; wellbeing and indoor air quality; historical buildings and cultural heritage; natural and artificial lighting; solar radiation control; energy sustainability of building–plant system, nautral and controlled mechanical ventilation
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Dear Colleagues,

The aims and topics of the International Journal Sustainability Special Issue “Energy Sustainable Operations on Historical Buildings” concern the crucial and transversal aspects aimed at sustainability, energy saving, environmental sustainability, well-being, light quality, recovery of historical philological and cultural value of historical building:

  • energy and environmental sustainable building-plant retrofitting and refurbishment operations,
  • energy-efficient and sustainable solutions for the integration of renewable energy systems,
  • recovery and reactivation of ancient cooling and natural ventilation systems,
  • adaptation and efficiency/efficacy improvement of artificial lighting systems,
  • improvement and maximization / optimization of use of natural lighting,
  • smart lighting and innovative technologies for historical building,
  • new sustainable lighting (natural and/or artificial) technology application and design.

Prof. Dr. Carla Balocco
Guest Editor

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The Energy-Oriented Management of Public Historic Buildings: An Integrated Approach and Methodology Applications
by Cristina Cecchini, Anna Magrini and Marco Morandotti
Sustainability 2020, 12(11), 4576; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114576 - 04 Jun 2020
Cited by 6 | Viewed by 2348
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In the European framework, there is a strong drive to develop integrated approaches aimed at understanding and improving the energy behavior of public historic buildings within urban contexts. However, the examples already provided tend to address the issue from mono-disciplinary perspectives, losing the [...] Read more.
In the European framework, there is a strong drive to develop integrated approaches aimed at understanding and improving the energy behavior of public historic buildings within urban contexts. However, the examples already provided tend to address the issue from mono-disciplinary perspectives, losing the opportunity for a coordinated view. The research suggests a methodology to reach the definition of a three-dimensional database, which incorporates spatial models and energy information, with the final goal of merging heterogeneous information that is useful to interpret the overall framework and to design sustainable development scenarios. The platform achieves GIS (Geographic Information System) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) integration by using the CityGML data model, for supporting multi-scale analyses without break of continuity, ranging from urban to building level. The discussion combines the applicative case with the theoretical background, deepening the role of a solid knowledge framework as a basis for sustainable interventions on public historic buildings. To better explain and test the methodology, a case study on the University built heritage of Pavia is presented and three possible outputs deriving from the database are discussed. The example demonstrates the strength of the approach, which is able to provide a variety of results coming from a unique source of information, ensuring coherence and unambiguousness at all levels of investigation. Full article
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Energy Upgrading of Residential Building Stock: Use of Life Cycle Cost Analysis to Assess Interventions on Social Housing in Italy
by Fabio Fantozzi, Caterina Gargari, Massimo Rovai and Giacomo Salvadori
Sustainability 2019, 11(5), 1452; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051452 - 08 Mar 2019
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The debate on the relevance of the global sustainability (including energy, environmental, social, economic, and political aspects) of building stock is becoming increasingly important in Europe. In this context, special attention is placed on the refurbishment of existing buildings, in particular those characterized [...] Read more.
The debate on the relevance of the global sustainability (including energy, environmental, social, economic, and political aspects) of building stock is becoming increasingly important in Europe. In this context, special attention is placed on the refurbishment of existing buildings, in particular those characterized by significant volumes and poor energy performance. Directive 2012/27/EU introduced stringent constraints (often disregarded) for public administrations to ensure a minimum yearly renovation quota of its building stock. This study describes how Life Cycle Cost analysis (LCC) can be used as a tool to identify the “cost-optimal level” among different design solutions to improve the energy performance of existing buildings. With this aim, a social housing building located in the town of Pisa (Italy) was chosen as the case study, for which two alternative renovation designs were compared using the LCC methodology to identify the optimal solution. The two alternatives were characterized by the same energy performance—one was based on the demolition of the existing building and the construction of a new building (with a wooden frame structure, as proposed by the public company owner of the building), while the other was based on the renovation of the existing building. This study can provide useful information, especially for designers and public authorities, about the relevance of the economic issues related to the renovation of social housing in a Mediterranean climate. Full article
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