Decision making for sustainable urban energy planning: an integrated evaluation framework of alternative solutions for a NZED (Net Zero-Energy District) in Turin

Becchio, Cristina; Bottero, Marta; Corgnati, Stefano Paolo; Dell’Anna, Federico

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.06.048

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“…The EU asked member states (MS) to draw up national guidelines for increasing the numbers of nZEB projects, develop policies, and fix targets to increase the quality of the buildings and fight against climate change. To facilitate the application by MS and guarantee flexibility, the Directive gives only a qualitative definition of nZEBs [3]. In 2010, the EU introduced the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) as a synthetic indicator that expresses energy performance to promote the improvement of buildings' performances thanks to the information provided to prospective owners and tenants about energy consumption.…”

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EPC Green Premium in Two Different European Climate Zones: A Comparative Study between Barcelona and Turin

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Energy performance certificates (EPCs) are important tools aimed at improving buildings’ energy performance. They play a central role in the context of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) which asks member states (MS) to take the necessary measures to establish a complete certification system. In this study, an application of the hedonic price method (HPM) assessing the effect of energy labels derived from the EPC on real estate market value is presented. The estimation methodology was applied to two European cities characterized by different climate conditions. The analysis was based on two datasets of listing prices referring to multi-family residential markets in Turin (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain). Four models for each dataset were applied to capture the marginal price of green attributes, but also to control for the spatial autocorrelation among values. The findings showed how the EPC has been applied in the two countries and how it has influenced the real estate market. Turin’s buyers pay more attention to the EPC label, while in Barcelona, they value much more single characteristics, such as air conditioning and a swimming pool, considered popular attributes among contemporary buildings in this climate zone. From the results, it is possible to deduce that the implementation of the EPC schemes is still irregular in EU countries and must be strengthened through a standardized rating model.

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EPC Green Premium in Two Different European Climate Zones: A Comparative Study between Barcelona and Turin

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“…It has to be mentioned that the recent literature in the context of sustainable cities has quite a controversial approach towards this technological trend in urban development. On one hand, the benefits delivered from the technological projects, such as photovoltaic panels and energy efficiency measures, are clear [63][64][65]; on the other hand, different authors provide evidence of the risk of producing "non democratic self-learning systems" that are independent from humans [66][67][68].…”

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Sustainable Cities: A Reflection on Potentialities and Limits based on Existing Eco-Districts in Europe

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The need for more sustainable cities has become a primary objective of urban strategies. The urgency for a radical transition towards sustainability in a long term-vision has brought with it several new concepts, such as smart urbanism, and models, such as smart city, eco-city, sustainable neighborhood, eco-district, etc. While these terms are fascinating and visionary, they often lack a clear definition both in terms of theoretical insight and empirical evidence. In this light, this contribution aims at defining a conceptual framework through which to further substantiate the blurred concept of eco-district and sustainable neighborhood. It does so by reviewing the concepts of smart urbanism and sustainable neighborhood/eco-districts in the literature, including also references to other well-known sustainability-oriented models of urban development. It then explores whether several indicators, emerging from the analysis of exemplary case studies of sustainable neighborhoods in Europe, can be used to clearly identify the characteristics of a sustainable approach at the district scale. The analysis, built on a review of existing literature, allows for both the clarification of several issues related to these fields of inquiry, as well as for the identification of the potential bridges to link these issues.

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“…The SROI technique is a very recent implementation of existing evaluation approaches in the context of project, plans and programs and it is based on social accounting and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) [27]. CBA is an economic valuation method for comparing costs and benefits of different project options along their lifetime [28]. By valuing all the impacts into monetary units and discounting them at a specific year, the method allows to screen or to rank alternatives by specific performance indicators, such as the SROI.…”

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Strategic Assessment and Economic Evaluation: The Case Study of Yanzhou Island (China)

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This paper proposes an interdisciplinary multi-level decision-making procedure for supporting an ongoing process of rural development of Yanzhou Island (China). A multi-methodological evaluation approach based on the combined use of different evaluation tools has been developed in order to take into account the economic, social, environmental and cultural aspects of the planning process. An experts’ panel has been involved in research since the preliminary phases of the evaluation with the aim of helping the structuring of the decision problem and discussing the outcomes of the analysis. The proposed approach allowed to understand the potentials and weaknesses of the area and to design the most suitable solution for the case study selected. The interdisciplinary nature of this process had given the opportunity to co-design and re-define the master plan in line with the expressed priorities. The master plan of the new district encourages landscape enhancement and promotes the economic development, proposing to grow tourism activities and wellness facilities in a natural place.

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Decision making for sustainable urban energy planning: an integrated evaluation framework of alternative solutions for a NZED (Net Zero-Energy District) in Turin

Cited by 65 publications

References 68 publications

EPC Green Premium in Two Different European Climate Zones: A Comparative Study between Barcelona and Turin

EPC Green Premium in Two Different European Climate Zones: A Comparative Study between Barcelona and Turin

Sustainable Cities: A Reflection on Potentialities and Limits based on Existing Eco-Districts in Europe

Strategic Assessment and Economic Evaluation: The Case Study of Yanzhou Island (China)

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