Upgrading the building's energy performance with an advanced ventilated façade system

Tsikaloudaki, Katerina; Theodosiou, Theodoros; Tsirigoti, Dimitra; Τσόκα, Στέλλα; Bikas, Dimitrios; Martinez-Urrutia, Asier; González, Julen Hernández

doi:10.1504/wrstsd.2019.104092

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“…On 14 October 2020 the Commission published a new strategy for renovation called "A Renovation Wave for Europe -Greening our buildings, creating jobs, improving lives" (COM(2020)662) (Renovation Wave | Energy n.d.). Moreover, there is a broad research for tools, strategies and campaigns for existing buildings targeting to a zero energy development (R2Cities: Residential Renovation towards Nearly Zero Energy Cities n.d.), (Renovate Europe n.d.), climate neutral cities (CLUE n.d.) or innovative renovation strategies for building facades (Tsikaloudaki et al 2019). In addition, except from the energy efficiency, other aspects of building renovation are often considered for the existing buildings stock.…”

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Energy and Aesthetic Upgrading Interventions: Assessing Urban Block Renovation Scenarios

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The target towards carbon neutral cities emerges as a new way to mitigate the environmental pollution and the indisputable climate change, but it can also be the chance for the overall improvement of the quality of life by promoting the upgrading of the often low aesthetic quality of the urban environments. The objective of the research is to investigate renovation strategies at the city scale that will not only reduce the energy demand, but they will also promote the improvement of the city’s aesthetics. Two different typologies of urban block forms of the Greek city are examined, and four scenarios of renovation interventions are analysed according to energy and aesthetic criteria. The heating and cooling load demand is calculated through simulations for the four renovation scenarios which include: The improvement of the thermal insulation of the building’s shells. The use of phase change materials. The construction of green roofs. The integration of passive solar and shading systems. The findings of the research prove that the energy interventions at the urban block scale can define the degree of efficiency in the energy performance level without compromising aesthetics, as the added value resulting from higher aesthetics is a basic criterion for the overall improvement of the quality of life.

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