Review of methods for the combined assessment of seismic resilience and energy efficiency towards sustainable retrofitting of existing European buildings

Menna, Costantino; Felicioni, Licia; Negro, Paolo; Lupíšek, Antonín; Romano, Elvira; Prota, Andrea; Hájek, Petr

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2021.103556

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“…The former category, whose roots date back to 1990's, concerns EU and non-EU sustainability rating systems based on indicators of different weight. The latter category includes methods to combine different life-cycle performance metrics of a building (Menna et al 2022) with the SSD methodology resulting particularly noteworthy.…”

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The Challenge of the Integrated Seismic Strengthening and Environmental Upgrading of Existing Buildings

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Romano

2022

Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences

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The construction industry, as a main energy consumer and a foremost contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, has been undergoing a “green revolution” in the recent years. Sustainability has become a prominent issue, therefore a framework for including energy efficiency and sustainability in the design of buildings is badly needed. Sustainability is the core of the European Renovation Wave strategy and of the New European Bauhaus initiative.A design approach, named SAFESUST (SAFEty and SUSTainability) has been proposed at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, able to address at the same time structural safety, energy and environmental performances. The output of this approach is a unique parameter, expressed in monetary terms, which helps in identifying the most appropriate design solution.More recently, the Joint Research Centre, under mandate of the European Parliament, has activated a European Pilot Project named “Integrated techniques for the seismic strengthening and energy efficiency of existing buildings”. The project is expected to put forward a simplified holistic approach to improve simultaneously the seismic safety and energy efficiency of the existing European building stock and to stimulate the use of integrated solutions.The Joint Research Centre is also conducting a Preparatory Action for the definition of a labelling strategy for the implementation of the New European Bauhaus initiative.

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“…Whereas many methods exist to measure the energy efficiency and environmental performance of buildings (Menna et al 2022), few of them can be applied in the practical design of the rehabilitation, and can be easily combined with the structural and seismic design.…”

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The Challenge of the Integrated Seismic Strengthening and Environmental Upgrading of Existing Buildings

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Romano

2022

Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences

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“…A further advantage of an integrated retrofit is indeed due to the lower costs achievable by the combined energy and seismic intervention. In addition to many incentives currently provided for the improvement of the energy and seismic performance of existing buildings (e.g., European Green Deal (COM/2019/640, 2019), Italian EcoBonus, and SismaBonus (Law, 2020)), another benefit deriving from an integrated refurbishment is the lower payback time of the investment, which can be considered as an estimation of its economic efficiency (Menna et al, 2022). Such reduction is mainly due to the energy performance improvement given by thermal refurbishment, which translates into higher energy efficiency with lower consumption and building management costs.…”

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“…Even if retrofitting techniques are already adopted for seismic strengthening, such interventions are performed in a disharmonious way, not considering the advantages of closer coordination with the thermal function. Such a holistic integration may result in higher efficiency and lower costs of the refurbishment, allowing for a decrese in the payback period of the investment (Menna et al, 2022).…”

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Seismic and energy integrated retrofit of buildings: A critical review

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Penazzato

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Front. Built Environ.

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The European building stock presents pertinent issues needing suitable strategies to be solved. In detail, this regards seismic safety and energy efficiency of buildings to ensure more liveable and safe cities, which represents an important goal for modern societies. Energy performance includes both comfort and saving, the latter required for a more responsible resource consumption within the building sector, having a considerable contribution to the total demand. Current strategies do not seem to be able to simultaneously solve such aspects satisfactorily, both for higher economic requirements and poor technical feasibility implied by separated and disharmonious interventions. Thus, a holistic perspective should be adopted to pursue such an ambitious objective, which has recently gained increasing attention among researchers. Current requirements are firstly highlighted to show the need for an integrated approach to building retrofit. Secondly, a critical review of integrated strategies combining seismic and energy refurbishment proposed in the literature is reported. Then, special issues are discussed, including the feasibility of an integrated approach applied to heritage buildings. This study revealed that a fully efficient strategy for integrated retrofit has not still been proposed in the literature and there are several open issues to be solved. However, current solutions may be further developed to improve them and the several options currently available demonstrated the increasing attention and importance of the topic. Finally, concluding remarks on this research topic have been drawn to promote future studies.

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“…The results showed the seismic and energetic advantages of a set of integrated interventions and demonstrated the applicability of an integrated approach both in RC residential and school buildings in Italy. Regarding the combined seismic energy efficiency interventions, Menna et al [8] reviewed current methods, tools, and protocols in Europe for their implementation in buildings. It was underlined the importance of a site-specific evaluation for the building assessment and the necessity of a holistic approach in the measurement of the building system's performances.…”

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Energy, Environmental Impact and Indoor Environmental Quality of Add-Ons in Buildings

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On a European scale, the existing building stock has poor energy performance and particularly vulnerable structures. Indeed, most of the existing buildings were built before the introduction of energy standards and under structural safety criteria different from those currently required. It is therefore necessary the intervention in existing buildings according to an integrated approach that contemplates both the structural safety and the energy efficiency of buildings. This study, consistently with the objectives of the European research project “Proactive synergy of integrated Efficient Technologies on buildings’ Envelopes (Pro-GET-OnE)”, proposes a retrofit intervention for a student dormitory of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The scope of the evaluation is to understand how an integrated intervention, that implies a structural and energy retrofit, as well as a spatial redistribution, leads to an improvement of the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ). In detail, the structural retrofit was performed through exoskeleton that leads to the addition of new living spaces and to a remodeling of the building facades. The energy retrofit regarded all three levers of energy efficiency, and thus the building envelope, the microclimatic control systems, and the systems from renewable sources. The integrated intervention, in addition to a reduction of energy demand, has led to advantages in terms of IEQ. Thermal comfort, both during summer and winter, is improved and the hours of suitable CO2 concentration pass from 34% in the pre-retrofit stage up to 100% in the post retrofit stage.

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Review of methods for the combined assessment of seismic resilience and energy efficiency towards sustainable retrofitting of existing European buildings

Cited by 53 publications

References 42 publications

The Challenge of the Integrated Seismic Strengthening and Environmental Upgrading of Existing Buildings

The Challenge of the Integrated Seismic Strengthening and Environmental Upgrading of Existing Buildings

Seismic and energy integrated retrofit of buildings: A critical review

Energy, Environmental Impact and Indoor Environmental Quality of Add-Ons in Buildings

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