Conservation-Compatible Retrofit Solutions in Historic Buildings: An Integrated Approach

Buda, Alessia; Hansen, Ernst Jan de Place; Rieser, Alexander; Giancola, Emanuela; Pracchi, Valeria Natalina; Mauri, Sara De; Marincioni, Valentina; Gori, Virginia; Fouseki, Kalliopi; Lopez, Cristina Silvia Polo; Faro, Alessandro Lo; Egusquiza, Aitziber; Haas, Franziska; Leonardi, Eleonora; Herrera-Avellanosa, Daniel

doi:10.3390/su13052927

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“…The IEA-SCH Task 59 project adapted the assessment criteria included in the aforementioned standard to better support the evaluation of a retrofit solution and facilitate its practical application [58]. Nevertheless, the authors recognize it is still a complex task.…”

Section: Methods For Establishing Intervention Criteria For Protected Historic Buildings Achieving a Balance Between The Preservation Of mentioning

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Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

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Dotor²,

Duarte

2021

Sustainability

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In attempts to improve the energy efficiency of protected historical buildings, two barriers arise. The first is the restrictions imposed by authorities that are responsible for cultural heritage preservation. The second is the exclusion of protected buildings from strict compliance with energy efficiency requirements in current regulations, such as the issue of an Energy Performance Certificate, which removes them from conventional channels of public policies. Both of these issues put heritage in a delicate situation, especially when they are intended for privately developed residential uses. This paper presents a methodology for assessing and establishing a trade-off between energy performance and the cultural value of heritage buildings through the comprehensive analysis of a case study: the retrofitting of Can Armengol Palace in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). The study revealed (1) the need to objectify the cultural values of the building as far as possible to identify conflicts with the strategies of energy efficiency improvement; and (2) the appropriateness of considering every aspect of a rehabilitation intervention in a global simultaneous approach, not just energy aspects. The method that was used had five steps: acquiring a deep knowledge of the building configuration, assessing the building performance for every legal requirement, identifying cultural values, defining intervention criteria, and analyzing intervention effects on the protected elements of the building. The most important contribution in this study is the detailed and extended definition of architectural heritage values and the consideration of interventions resulting from sustainability retrofits as a new kind of value, that reflects current worries, for which future generations will remember us.

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Section: Methods For Establishing Intervention Criteria For Protected Historic Buildings Achieving a Balance Between The Preservation Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

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Dotor²,

Duarte

2021

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“…In the past decade, three important voluntary standard guidelines have been developed to establish generic procedures, assessment criteria and recommend methods for the energy renovation of historic buildings, including those statutorily protected [8,17]. Chronologically the first was the AiCARR (Italian Society of Refrigerating) 2014 guidelines proposing an interdisciplinary approach to contribute to the European 2050 energy use targets and GHG emissions reductions [34].…”

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“…The European and American guidelines on energy renovation of historic buildings, give the first stages in the process as a building assessment and survey; defining the main goals followed by assessments of compatible solutions [8,9,17]. This case study was prepared following the same process.…”

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“…Many countries have developed guidance material on how to insulate walls, windows or even adding photovoltaic (PV) panels to heritage and historic buildings [13][14][15]. The topic of historic retrofit has been widely investigated in the last decade from both technical and conservation sides; however there is still limited discussion about the heritage significance assessment and its influence on the decision-making [11,16], while from a practice perspective energy retrofits are still limited by regulatory, social and technical barriers [17].…”

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Applying International Guidelines on Historic Building’s Retrofit in New Zealand: A Critical Context View

Paschoalin

Isaacs

2021

Heritage

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Interest in the energy retrofit of historic buildings reflects the current drive to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. New Zealand (NZ), unlike Europe and USA, has no country-specific guidelines considering heritage conservation, energy efficiency, reduced carbon emissions and cost. The paper explores benefits to NZ from a policy and practice perspective from such procedures. The adoption of tailored retrofit guidelines would contribute to the national goal of reduced GHG emissions by 2050. The case study investigates the relevance and challenges of assessments such as heritage impact, life-cycle carbon assessment and life-cycle costing for historic building renovations. Through interviews with a range of experts, the results for hypothetical retrofits of a heritage building are evaluated. The interviews reveal how possible trade-offs among different assessment criteria (e.g., energy, cost, carbon footprint and heritage impact) are considered by different specialist groups, as well as exploring the benefits and barriers, and providing recommendations for future renovation guidance. The main findings highlight the importance of a life-cycle perspective and of conservation plans for heritage assessment. The experts all agreed that from a conservation perspective, there was no one energy retrofit solution that fits all building types and cases.

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“…Buda et al [3] presented an approach to support decision makers in selecting relevant retrofit solutions. Their paper focuses on best practices for walls, windows, HVAC systems and solar thermal and PV technologies and, as a main result, the paper encourages decision makers to opt for specifically tailored energy retrofits to solve the conflict between conservation and energy performance requirements.…”

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Comprehensive Energy Renovation of Two Danish Heritage Buildings within IEA SHC Task 59

Rose

Thomsen

2021

Heritage

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Historic and heritage buildings present a significant challenge when it comes to reducing energy consumption to mitigate climate change. These buildings need careful renovation, and increasing their energy efficiency is often associated with a high level of complexity, because consideration for heritage values can often reduce and impede possibilities and sometimes even rule out certain improvements completely. Despite these issues, many such renovation projects have already been carried out, and therefore the IEA SHC Task 59 project (Renovating Historic Buildings Towards Zero Energy) in cooperation with Interreg Alpine Space ATLAS has developed a tool for sharing these best-practice examples—the HiBERatlas (Historical Building Energy Retrofit Atlas). The Internet serves as a best-practice database for both individual energy efficiency measures and whole-building renovation projects. This paper presents two of the Danish projects featured in HiBERatlas. The first project, Ryesgade 30, is a Copenhagen apartment building with a preservation-worthy period brick façade. The second project is the Osram Building, a listed Copenhagen office building from 1959 with a protected façade, which today acts as a culture centre. Both renovation projects achieved significant energy savings and consequently CO2-emission reductions, and the indoor climate in both buildings have also improved significantly. Furthermore, a detailed analysis was carried out regarding possible window solutions and ventilation systems in Ryesgade 30, and for the Osram Building regarding daylighting technologies. This paper investigates the two renovation cases through the available measurement and calculation results before and after renovations and demonstrates that it is possible to reduce energy consumption significantly and at the same time improve the indoor climate without compromising the cultural values of buildings.

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Conservation-Compatible Retrofit Solutions in Historic Buildings: An Integrated Approach

Cited by 43 publications

References 57 publications

Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

Applying International Guidelines on Historic Building’s Retrofit in New Zealand: A Critical Context View

Comprehensive Energy Renovation of Two Danish Heritage Buildings within IEA SHC Task 59

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