The Influence of Indoor Microclimate on Thermal Comfort and Conservation of Artworks: The Case Study of the Cathedral of Matera (South Italy)

Cardinale, Tiziana; Rospi, Gianluca; Cardinale, Nicola

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.10.398

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“…On the basis of experimental campaign, the authors proposed interventions to mitigate the indoor microclimate and to obtain stable conditions. Cardinale et al [18] proposed the indoor microclimate evaluation of the Matera Cathedral before and after its restoration, that also included a floor heating system installation, analyzing thermal comfort and the effects on artworks and construction materials conservation. The analysis has allowed to affirm that the installed heating system permits to satisfy people's thermal comfort, the excellent conservation of the artistic heritage from the thermo-hygrometric point of view, and considerable energy savings.…”

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“…• Phase II: based on the results obtained during the Phase I, a continuous monitoring of indoor thermohygrometric conditions is performed identifying a new measurement grid that considers the number of necessary points identified in the Phase I as a function of the thermo-hygrometric fluctuations observed. Similarly to the duration of many of the works proposed in the literature [3,6,13,18,35,49], the total time span of the monitoring phase was 40 days, divided into 16 days for the Phase I and 24 days for the Phase II, in the period between September and November, 2017. The technical specifications of the measuring instruments employed during the experimental campaign are summarized in Table 3.…”

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The restoration of severely damaged churches – Implications and opportunities on cultural heritage conservation, thermal comfort and energy efficiency

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Indoor microclimate and energy performance analyses of historic buildings require tailored methodologies, because of their complexities, e.g. presence of artworks, lack of documents or project data and employed structure and materials. Given such difficulties, there are a few interdisciplinary methodologies, capable of carrying out multi-objective analyses for this kind of buildings, and they are often based on in-situ monitoring that, however, may not be able to predict the effects deriving from different conceivable technologies and control strategies. In this work, an interdisciplinary methodology is employed for evaluating cultural heritage conservation conditions, occupants 'thermal comfort and energy performance of a specific historic building category, such as churches, on the basis of experimental and numerical approach. The methodology was applied to the case study of an ancient Italian church, recently restored following the earthquake that hit L'Aquila in 2009. After the refurbishment of the church, the statistical analysis of temperature and relative humidity experimental data allowed to observe that the conservation conditions of artistic heritage just restored may be non-correct, due to remarkable thermo-hygrometric fluctuations of the indoor microclimate. Therefore, starting from the current condition of absence of HVAC system, calibrated dynamic simulation models of the church allowed to hypothesize different technological solutions able to control the indoor microclimate and to evaluate the effects on artworks preservation, thermal comfort, and energy performance. The results of the multi-scenario analysis showed that suitable conservation conditions (PIs > 90%) and thermal comfort can be obtained by employing a complex heating/cooling and humidification/dehumidification system which determines a significant increase in energy consumption.

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The restoration of severely damaged churches – Implications and opportunities on cultural heritage conservation, thermal comfort and energy efficiency

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“…The development and use of new technologies, "e-sensing", for monitoring in the hospital fields, [14][15][16], in urban settings: for the detection of pollutants main [17][18][19][20][21], and in the ambient of museums, [22][23][24][25], allows you to take into account the synergies between all monitoring parameters and the consequences of the exceeding the of parameters of risk.…”

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Analysis and measures for energy savings in operating theaters

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Cannistraro²,

Galvagno³

et al. 2017

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In hospitals, the energy demand of the different areas can be divided in form of thermal energy, cooling and electricity. The complexity of the energy system of each structure may be different from hospital to hospital as well as to the volume of manufactured. In fact, the energy demand is closely related to:-health activities that take place in it; -its geographical location; -the structural type and adopted plant The use of different type of energy sources is due to the implementation of different technology options and then to specific operating costs and levels of different issues.In the graphs below (Figure 1 and 2) is shown the values and percentages of annual energy demand required for two different hospitals located in the northern of Italy, respectively: Zucchi Clinic (MB) and the City of Pavia Care Institute (PV) -Reference year 2012.The energy demand for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is equal to 45% for the first structure and of 69% for the second structure analyzed.It denotes in both cases, that this request always results in a higher percentage than all other requests and in the case of the care institute City of Pavia, the contribution percentage is higher of 50% higher.Taking into consideration the same study, conducted for the Zucchi clinic and the City of Pavia health institution, also ensures that the demand for natural gas (methane gas) for technological uses is particularly relevant to the request for HVAC uses, and then for technological uses. In fact, the following charts (Figure 3 and 4) show that the demand for natural gas is higher in the winter months with a INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTIn hospital, air conditioning and air treatment systems are of great importance both for functional and energetic point of view. In fact, these systems must guarantee the conditions of hygrothermal air quality and comfort for people (patients, staff, visitors), but also meet the operational requirements related to the medical activities in specific environments or departments. In particular, diagnosis and surgical activities request to ensure a high air quality conditions in order to ensure the appropriate environments of asepsis and hygiene [1][2][3]. The aim of this study is to evaluate the possible energy saving solutions to optimize and reduce energy demand [4][5] in the health facilities. Particular attention is focused to the operating theaters, which, because of the type of technological systems used, have a major impact on energy demand the entire healthcare facility.

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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 Influence of Indoor Microclimate on Thermal Comfort and Conservation of Artworks: The Case Study of the Cathedral of Matera (South Italy)

Cited by 28 publications

References 5 publications

The restoration of severely damaged churches – Implications and opportunities on cultural heritage conservation, thermal comfort and energy efficiency

The restoration of severely damaged churches – Implications and opportunities on cultural heritage conservation, thermal comfort and energy efficiency

Analysis and measures for energy savings in operating theaters

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

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