Historic Buildings in Mediterranean Area and Solar Thermal Technologies: Architectural Integration vs Preservation Criteria

Moschella, Angela; Salemi, Angelo Maria Vincenzo Francesc; Faro, Alessandro Lo; Sanfilippo, Giuseppe; Detommaso, Maurizio; Privitera, A.

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2013.11.042

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“…Focusing neither on comparative analyses nor on climactic factors, investigations by Polo and Frontini [97] and Moschella et al [40] went a step further and resolved the problem of integrating solar thermal and photovoltaic panels with historic building frameworks.…”

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“…Between 2013 and the first half of 2014, research on energy efficiency in historic buildings diversified in terms of content and the types of buildings examined. For example, different methodologies were applied to study urban [39][40][41][42][43], rural [37,[44][45][46], academic [47][48][49] and religious buildings [50][51][52][53][54], both individually and in urban areas [39][40][41][42][43]. Most of these studies focused on reusing heritage buildings and proposed suitable technical solutions for enhancing energy efficiency while maintaining building heritage values.…”

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“…As illustrated in Fig. 2, Italy is the country that has generated most of the energy efficiency in historic building research [6,14,15,18,20,26,30,32,35,40,41,43,47,[49][50][51][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74]. Italy is followed by the UK [21,25,[75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82], Spain [19,54,[83][84]…”

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Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

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a b s t r a c tIn recent years, energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings have become high-interest topics among scholars. Research has demonstrated that retrofitting buildings to current energy efficiency and thermal comfort standards is essential for improving sustainability and energy performance and for maintaining built heritage of historic structures. This study is an extensive overview of the literature surrounding this topic. This paper summarizes the different methods and techniques that have been used around the world to achieve performance refurbishments. Articles are organized based on the different building types used as case studies (residential, religious, academic and palace, museums, libraries and theaters, urban areas, and others). The results reveal that residential, religious and museum building types, especially from the last two centuries, have been most often used as case studies. Moreover, Europe, particularly Italy, is leading the research. The aim of this note is to demonstrate the feasibility of maintaining built heritage values of historic buildings while achieving significant improvements in their energy efficiency and thermal comfort.

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Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

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“…For historic buildings it is necessary to evaluate the possibility of building integration of the RES, considering both the cultural values of the buildings and the space available, shadows, wind velocity and so on [14]. The energy demand for producing DHW can be almost entirely satisfied installing a solar thermal system with a solar collector area of about 5.00 m 2 .…”

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Deploy Energy-efficient Technologies in the Restoration of a Traditional Building in the Historical Center of Catania (Italy)

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The policy about energy efficiency of buildings, including minimum energy requirements and energy performance certificate (EPC), have to be also applied to existing buildings in the case of energy retrofit. In this paper, the possible strategies that can be used to reduce the energy needs of traditional massive buildings, that are widespread in the old town of the Mediterranean cities, have been investigated. To this aim, this study evaluates the energy consumption of a massive building placed in Catania city, called "La Casa del Portuale", which was recently refurbished with the aim to host two local administrative centers. The energy needs of this building was evaluated through computer simulation both in the heating and cooling period, on a yearly basis. The activities research were developed analyzing different refurbishment solutions suitable to improve the thermal performance of most traditional buildings without adversely affecting their fabric and character. Therefore, the feasibility comparison has been performed between the examined refurbishment solutions. The results of the proposed research , considering the diffusion of this typology of buildings, could be assumed as reference to a significant portion of the traditional real estate.

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“…The best retrofit strategy is to evaluate, case by Buildings 2017, 7, 68 3 of 17 case, the most effective solution responsive to the needs of each case, both in terms of aesthetics and in technology [26].…”

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Redesign of a Rural Building in a Heritage Site in Italy: Towards the Net Zero Energy Target

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Abstract:In order to achieve the ambitious objective of decarbonising the economy, it is mandatory, especially in Europe and in Italy, to include the retrofitting of existing buildings. In a country where a large share of existing buildings have heritage value, it is important to design effective retrofit solutions also in historical buildings. In this context, the paper describes the experience of re-design of an existing rural building located in Sicily, inside the ancient Greeks' "Valley of the Temples". An energy audit was performed on the building, and its energy uses were thoroughly investigated. A building model was developed in the TRNSYS environment and its performances validated. The validated model was used for redesign studies aimed towards the achievement of the Net Zero Energy Building target. The best performing solutions to be applied to a case study like the Sanfilippo House were those regarding the management of the building, as in the case of the natural ventilation and the energy systems setpoints, that would allow a large impact (up to 10% reductions in energy uses) on the energy performances of the building with no invasiveness, and those with very limited invasiveness and high impact on the energy efficiency of the building, as in the lighting scenario (up to 30% energy uses reduction). The most invasive actions can only be justified in the case of high energy savings, as in the case of the insulation of the roof, otherwise they should be disregarded.

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Historic Buildings in Mediterranean Area and Solar Thermal Technologies: Architectural Integration vs Preservation Criteria

Cited by 42 publications

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Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

Deploy Energy-efficient Technologies in the Restoration of a Traditional Building in the Historical Center of Catania (Italy)

Redesign of a Rural Building in a Heritage Site in Italy: Towards the Net Zero Energy Target

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