Life Cycle Assessment of Italian Residential Windows: Sensitivity of Analysis

Intini, Francesco P.; Rospi, Gianluca; Cardinale, Nicola; Kühtz, Silvana; Dassisti, Michele

doi:10.18280/ijht.34s207

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“…The use of smart technologies "e-sensors" in the field of environmental monitoring, in residential buildings [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29], hospitals and in the field of the historical buildings under protection and safeguard, will make achieve significant developments in the "smart city" and "smart islands", encouraging the growth of tourism and quality of life. The use of renewable energy in the new technologies and plant systems [30][31][32][33][34][35], will make a significant contribution to the sustainable development of Smarts Islands.…”

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Islands "Smart Energy" for eco-sustainable energy a case study "Favignana Island"

Cannistraro¹,

Cannistraro²,

Trovato³

2017

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The term "Smart" in the last decade has often flanked other words to express a new and intelligent way of living in a modern society where you cannot separate the two synergic aspects: Energy and Sustainability. These latter two aspects flow into the new way of managing an isolated territory that often presents difficulties because of no interactions with the surrounding area; to remedy these difficulties has been developed in recent years the "Smart-Island" project, which involves many European countries and several sponsors. The concept of "SmartIsland" defines a way of life in an isolated environment, such as that of these islands, can solve independently, with the use of renewable and sustainable sources the energy needs of the island, with some projects that take into account the preservation and the wealth of the territory. In this paper, after a brief review of what has been proposed in some islands of the world, it will develop a case study, represented by the island of Favignana, which has particular characteristics in relation to its energy dependence.

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Islands "Smart Energy" for eco-sustainable energy a case study "Favignana Island"

Cannistraro¹,

Cannistraro²,

Trovato³

2017

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“…This proceeding, followed by a lot of country, is able to development and use new technologies "e-sensing" to monitoring the hospitals field, [12][13][14][15]: for the detection of main pollutants [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], in museums, to study the possible causes of deterioration of works of art, [25][26][27], allows you to joint either all monitoring parameters and avoid the risk to overcome limits of these parameters.…”

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Monitoring of the indoor microclimate in hospital environments a case study the Papardo hospital in Messina

Cannistraro¹,

Bernardo²

2017

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The Italian hospitals are housed in old buildings, some statistics report refers which they have should be about of fifty years old. Recently new structures were built, but the trend is that over restructure and/or redevelop existing buildings, making by a cost-benefit analysis that supports this choice. The Italian construction industry covers the most part of the national energy requirements, and the hospital have a big energy request because the buildings of different areas with different destinations represent the major demand of the needed energy sector.Hospitals must observe the same climate conditions, although the average fuel consumption is three times more than the average values of the residential construction sector.The energy demand in this sector have been used in different way: air conditioning in summer and winter, ventilation, environments lighting, domestic hot water, steam generation for sterilization and humidification, as well as the request by the kitchens, laundries, domestic transport, computers, diagnostic and therapeutic devices, etc.Furthermore, this demand should be absolutely guaranteed, in particular for the thermal and electrical installations, for everyday of the year.The complexity of the equipment used and the regulatory compliance in terms of temperature, humidity and air flow, it could lead considerable consumption, increasing the difficulty of management plants.However, the hospital buildings have a large energy savings potential, which could be achieved improving efficiency of building-plant systems, management of energy.The air conditioning systems of the hospitalization facility should meet specific technical and functional requirements in order to ensure compliance with the temperature-humidity requirements of itself.The regulatory and legislative system should pay attention to the standards and the eligibility criteria for these environments, such as the rooms to be used as hospital stays, providing a strategy to obtain higher values of comfort and safety.The ABSTRACTIn hospitals, the requirements relating at comfort thermo-hygrometric, lighting and air quality, play a major role and are related, at the characteristics of the building-plant system, and to the activities that take place in it. The climate control of the environments constitutes a major problem in the hospital field, and it has effects not only in the realization of new facilities, but also in the renovations. The systems must be designed and engineered with a full integration with the global project, which is simple in the case of new construction, more difficult in the event of restructuring, since it is necessary to interact with restrictive constraints conditioning, such a distribution of complex and articulated spaces. In design of the systems of a hospital building, two fundamental aspects must be ensured: total control of the thermo-hygrometric parameters (temperature, humidity and air velocity), and the possibility of the control and adjusting -for the single areasof flows and air changes within i...

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“…The LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) method is the most internationally accredited assessment for the quantification of the damage and its outcomes can be immediately related to impacts on human health, ecosystem quality and consumption of natural resources [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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Evaluation of the Sustainability of Energy Retrofit Interventions on the Historical Heritage: A Case Study in the City of Matera, Italy

Selicati¹,

Cardinale²,

Dassisti³

2020

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For some years now the regulations in the sustainability field oriented the practitioners towards an increasing restraint concerning energy necessities, to reconsider the weight in terms of energy and environmental impacts associated with different phases of their life cycle. Among the reliable models to carry out the valuation, the Life Cycle Assessment remains a useful tool that determine the most impactful stages of the life cycle of any process and, thus, its environmental performances. This paper aims to develop and complete previous analyses on sustainability led on the historical heritage of the city of Matera, highlighting all the issues that are still unresolved and the possible solutions to be undertaken. Deep considerations on sustainability and its peculiarities are carried out. A reported analysis of literature and a description of the methods and tools used in the case study are shown. The case study consists in performing the LCA using SimaPro software, based on the assumptions aimed to the energetic retrofit for "Palazzo del Sedile", an historical building located in Matera, Italy. In this section, three methods of assessment are largely described, the choice has been made due to their significance in expressing the environmental effects from three very different perspectives.

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Life Cycle Assessment of Italian Residential Windows: Sensitivity of Analysis

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Islands "Smart Energy" for eco-sustainable energy a case study "Favignana Island"

Islands "Smart Energy" for eco-sustainable energy a case study "Favignana Island"

Monitoring of the indoor microclimate in hospital environments a case study the Papardo hospital in Messina

Evaluation of the Sustainability of Energy Retrofit Interventions on the Historical Heritage: A Case Study in the City of Matera, Italy

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