Special Issue "Indoor Microclimate and Technical Systems in Historic Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Vincenzo Costanzo
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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAR), University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95125 Catania, Italy
Interests: sustainable buildings; building performance evaluation; passive design; thermal comfort; energy efficiency; daylighting; urban heat islands and mitigation strategies
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Prof. Dr. Kristian Fabbri
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Guest Editor
Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Viale Europa 596, 47521 Cesena, Italy
Interests: heritage building; indoor and outdoor microclimates; building energy performance; monitoring campaign; building simulation; cultural heritage
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The study of the heritage buildings’ physical, environmental, microclimate and energy characteristics represents a peculiar field of research that embraces several topics and thus requires a holistic approach.

Current research efforts are dominated by a case study approach, where different methodologies, standards, monitoring tools, measurement strategies and software tools are employed to understand the complexities linked to historic buildings. This is especially true if considering technical systems, for which the peculiarities of each historic building entail specific solutions.

This Special Issue aims to advance the knowledge of such peculiarities, in particular those concerning indoor microclimate conditions/monitoring techniques and how these affect the technical systems design and use, under the perspectives of conservation and thermal comfort.

Submissions dealing with both direct (e.g., monitoring campaigns) and indirect (e.g., virtual environmental models, building simulation, computational fluid dynamics analysis) investigation methodologies are encouraged.

Dr. Vincenzo Costanzo
Prof. Dr. Kristian Fabbri
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • heritage buildings and climate change
  • indoor microclimate in heritage buildings
  • microclimate, building and works of art preservation
  • monitoring campaign
  • building simulation for indoor microclimate and/or energy consumption
  • case studies
  • technical systems in heritage buildings
  • HVAC system retrofit
  • energy management in heritage buildings

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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