Reversible Energy Saving Renovation Techniques in 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 (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 259
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Interests: sustainability assessment; life cycle analysis; life cycle cost analysis; green buildings; nature-based building solutions; circular economy; climate adaptation; climate mitigation
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Dear Colleagues,
The European existing building stock comprises a substantial opportunity for reducing primary energy consumption, making the energy retrofitting of buildings very relevant. Historic buildings require an adapted approach within this context, to assure building and artwork protection.
Often, the retrofitting strategies are designed on the basis of energy demand reduction and Life Cycle Cost evaluation (LCC); Other criteria related to the building and artwork preservation, intervention compatibility, indoor climate amelioration and its potential influence on materials conservation, materials production, use and sustainability assessment (SA) are totally neglected.
In 1982, architectural heritage was worldwide defined during the UNESCO conference on cultural polices in Mexico City. During the conference the heritage meaning was extended not only to the buildings, but also to possible artworks embedded in the building itself. This concept was even confirmed within the second article in the Granada conference in 1985.
This extension is fundamental, indeed if the building has to be retrofitted, the indoor climate optimal condition for frescos, stucco, paintings, moldings, decorations should be taken into account beside the people thermal comfort and energy efficiency improvement issues.
For this special issue contributions are welcome tackling all aspects important to evaluate and possible Reversible Energy Saving Renovation Techniques for Historical buildings. The retrofitting intervention, when carried out on historical or heritage buildings, has to ensure the amelioration for the building as a whole: building and its artworks as being part of the same heritage significance.
Evaluation tools of the Renovation Techniques historical buildings and his artwork as such as well as methodologies to diagnosis the historical buildings aimed at designing compatible interventions based on an overall understanding of the building conservation state are interesting approaches in this context.
Prof. Dr. Amaryllis Audenaert
Guest Editor
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