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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: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 2567

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: building physics; energy efficiency; thermal comfort; renewable energy; daylighting
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Prof. Dr. Kristian Fabbri

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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
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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

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Microclimatic Effects on the Preservation of Finds in the Visitor Centre of the Archaeological Site 1a Imperial Palace Sirmium
by Aleksandra Ugrinović, Budimir Sudimac and Željko Savković
Sustainability 2021, 13(19), 11083; https://doi.org/10.3390/su131911083 - 07 Oct 2021
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When an archaeological site is roofed over for the better display of the finds and more comfortable experience of the audience, the intervention undoubtedly changes the microclimatic conditions in the site. Although sudden changes in microclimatic factors are known to damage and/or destroy [...] Read more.
When an archaeological site is roofed over for the better display of the finds and more comfortable experience of the audience, the intervention undoubtedly changes the microclimatic conditions in the site. Although sudden changes in microclimatic factors are known to damage and/or destroy archaeological finds, their impact and its analysis are neglected in Serbia. There is no continuous monitoring and control of microclimatic conditions or their impact on architectural remains in archaeological sites. Accordingly, the values of microclimatic parameters of temperature and relative humidity and their daily oscillations are examined in this paper through microclimatic monitoring in the Visitor Center of the Archaeological Site 1a Imperial Palace Sirmium, which is a cultural asset of exceptional importance. Moreover, microbiological analyses determine the degree of contamination of architectural findings. The aim of this paper is to determine whether the microclimatic regime in the Visitor Center of the Archaeological Site 1a Imperial Palace Sirmium is in accordance with European standards and recommendations on optimal microclimatic conditions for the presentation and preservation of cultural heritage collections. The findings showed that during the phase of microclimatic monitoring (February–April 2021), air humidity was almost constantly above the levels set by standards and recommendations for museum collections (>60%). The highest levels of air humidity, amounting to 93%, were recorded in February, with daily oscillations of up to 30%; the lowest recorded temperature was 0.3 °C, with the maximum daily oscillations of 6 °C. Microbiological analysis revealed great diversity in the deterioration level of the finds, which can be attributed to the time lapse between the last conservation and the present. The comparative analysis of the results of microclimatic monitoring and microbiological analysis identified high levels of relative air humidity as the dominant factor in the increased microbiological contamination of the finds. It is also concluded that the continuous monitoring of the microclimatic parameters of temperature and relative humidity during the usage of the facility is necessary so as to enable sustainable presentation and preservation of findings. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Indoor Microclimate and Technical Systems in Historic Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities)
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