Improving sustainable cultural heritage restoration work through life cycle assessment based model

Settembre-Blundo, Davide; Ferrari, Anna María; Hoyo, Alfonso Pedro Fernández del; Riccardi, María Pia; Muiña, Fernando Enrique García

doi:10.1016/j.culher.2018.01.008

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“…The findings highlight that replacing windows does not necessarily allow for the largest energy savings over their full life-cycles, while their maintenance may result in comparable or more considerable savings [34]. In fact, the LCA methodology can be used to select solutions or materials using less energy and thus emitting less CO 2 , however, the application of the LCA methodology is still in its infancy in the cultural heritage sector [35,36]. As a result of this gap in knowledge, Bertolin and Loli [37] developed a decision-support tool integrating a LCA approach within the framework of building conservation principles, nonetheless, they highlighted the need for further work in this direction given the complexity of this issue.…”

Section: Mitigating Climate Change In the Cultural Built Heritage Sectormentioning

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Mitigating Climate Change in the Cultural Built Heritage Sector

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Bertolin

Gagnon

et al. 2019

Climate

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Climate change mitigation targets have put pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of cultural heritage buildings. Commonly adopted measures to decrease the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of historical buildings are targeted at improving their energy efficiency through insulating the building envelope, and upgrading their heating, cooling and lighting systems. However, there are complex issues that arise when mitigating climate change in the cultural built heritage sector. For instance, preserving the authenticity of heritage buildings, maintaining their traditional passive behaviours, and choosing adaptive solutions compatible with the characteristics of heritage materials to avoid an acceleration of decay processes. It is thus important to understand what the enablers, or the barriers, are to reduce the carbon footprint of cultural heritage buildings to meet climate change mitigation targets. This paper investigates how climate change mitigation is considered in the management and preservation of the built heritage through semi-structured interviews with cultural heritage experts from the UK, Italy and Norway. Best-practice approaches for the refurbishment of historical buildings with the aim of decreasing their energy consumption are presented, as perceived by the interviewees, as well as the identification of the enablers and barriers in mitigating climate change in the cultural built heritage sector. The findings emphasise that adapting the cultural built heritage to reduce GHG emissions is challenging, but possible if strong and concerted action involving research and government can be undertaken to overcome the barriers identified in this paper.

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Mitigating Climate Change in the Cultural Built Heritage Sector

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Bertolin

Gagnon

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“…However, the reliable application of LCA to conservation practice requires further investigation and practice [40][41][42]. Results may be influenced by the considered lifespan, databases, system boundaries and reference study period [43][44][45][46]. The choice of indicators must be based on the well-defined objectives of LCA [47].…”

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“…The LCA of historic buildings can be challenging as databases do not usually include traditional materials [48,49]. The evaluation of results may not be straightforward when subjective judgements (e.g., emotional and memorial values) are taken into account [43]. To increase the credibility of LCA results, sensitivity analysis is advisable [50][51][52].…”

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Evaluation of Life-Cycle Assessment Analysis: Application to Restoration Projects and New Construction in Alpine Climate, Japan

Endo

Takamura

2021

Sustainability

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The present paper discusses the applications of life-cycle assessment (LCA) to construction works in Japan. LCA has been frequently used to assess the environmental impacts of new construction. Nonetheless, the applications of LCA to restoration have not been fully confirmed to date. It is said that historical buildings may contribute to sustainable development. Nonetheless, as for heritage buildings, since the protection of cultural value is usually prioritised, their environmental impacts may not be sufficiently explored. To this aim, this paper evaluated the environmental impacts of the restoration of heritage buildings. This paper consisted of two tasks. First, the restoration projects of heritage buildings in Japan were introduced. The restoration of two heritage houses was discussed, referring to heritage protection legislation in Japan. Second, LCA was performed on the restoration of heritage houses and the construction of contemporary houses. Environmental impacts were compared between the restoration and new construction with regard to greenhouse gas emissions and operational energy use. A focus was given to the amount of materials used. Restoration consumes a limited amount of materials compared to new construction, although the energy use of heritage buildings is considerable. The environmental impacts of restoration were quantified so that they were compared with those of new construction. The comparison indicated issues applying LCA to heritage buildings.

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“…This requires a reassessment of the intervention and maintenance strategies by the main actors involved in the safeguard, decision-making, management, and planning phases of conservation towards more highly efficient approaches. Following this direction, efforts have been made to apply the well-established tools of sustainability to the environmental, economic, and social aspects of cultural heritage conservation [5].…”

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Conservation of the Built Heritage: Pilot Site Approach to Design a Sustainable Process

Gulotta

Toniolo

2019

Heritage

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The conservation project of built heritage is a complex process, dealing with an extremely heterogeneous range of elements and different substrates with a large variety of conservation conditions. In recent years, its sustainability has become a relevant issue, due to the general limitation of resources and unique features of cultural heritage assets. The conservation project, therefore, requires a thorough knowledge of the specific characteristics of the site, a reliable evaluation of the treatment’s efficacy and durability, and efficient control of procedures and timing of the site during the conservation activities. A suitable approach to design the intervention is the implementation of a pilot site for the knowledge of surfaces and structures, and for the testing of different operative procedures. This approach needs the collaborative work of a multidisciplinary team coordinated by the project manager. This paper reports on the design of the conservation project of the Renaissance façade of the Monza cathedral, with the development of a pilot site as a relevant example of a complex surface. The three-phase process—preliminary knowledge, testing and implementation of the treatment methodologies, and scale-up to the general conservation project—is described and discussed with significant reference to real data from the case study.

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Improving sustainable cultural heritage restoration work through life cycle assessment based model

Cited by 36 publications

References 12 publications

Mitigating Climate Change in the Cultural Built Heritage Sector

Mitigating Climate Change in the Cultural Built Heritage Sector

Evaluation of Life-Cycle Assessment Analysis: Application to Restoration Projects and New Construction in Alpine Climate, Japan

Conservation of the Built Heritage: Pilot Site Approach to Design a Sustainable Process

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