Effects of pollution reduction and energy consumption reduction in small churches in Drohiczyn community

Woroniak, Grzegorz; Piotrowska-Woroniak, J.

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.12.048

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“…Between 2013 and the first half of 2014, research on energy efficiency in historic buildings diversified in terms of content and the types of buildings examined. For example, different methodologies were applied to study urban [39][40][41][42][43], rural [37,[44][45][46], academic [47][48][49] and religious buildings [50][51][52][53][54], both individually and in urban areas [39][40][41][42][43]. Most of these studies focused on reusing heritage buildings and proposed suitable technical solutions for enhancing energy efficiency while maintaining building heritage values.…”

Section: History Of the Publications On Historic Buildingsmentioning

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“…Shifting from thermal comfort assessments, heating systems in religious buildings have been of great interest to several researchers. One investigations, conducted by Woroniak and Piotrowska-Woroniak [52], focused on how adding insulation and replacing old windows and doors can result in a reduction in energy demand and, consequently, consumption. This paper presented the environmental and the energy effects that can be achieved with the thermo-modernization of churches and by upgrading both the heating systems and the heat sources.…”

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Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

Martínez-Molina

Tort-Ausina

Cho

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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a b s t r a c tIn recent years, energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings have become high-interest topics among scholars. Research has demonstrated that retrofitting buildings to current energy efficiency and thermal comfort standards is essential for improving sustainability and energy performance and for maintaining built heritage of historic structures. This study is an extensive overview of the literature surrounding this topic. This paper summarizes the different methods and techniques that have been used around the world to achieve performance refurbishments. Articles are organized based on the different building types used as case studies (residential, religious, academic and palace, museums, libraries and theaters, urban areas, and others). The results reveal that residential, religious and museum building types, especially from the last two centuries, have been most often used as case studies. Moreover, Europe, particularly Italy, is leading the research. The aim of this note is to demonstrate the feasibility of maintaining built heritage values of historic buildings while achieving significant improvements in their energy efficiency and thermal comfort.

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Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

Martínez-Molina

Tort-Ausina

Cho

et al. 2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

345

143

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“…The Polish and international literature confirms the favorable influence of thermal retrofitting on the energy efficiency of buildings. One of the examples includes the study presented in the paper [31], in which the authors investigated a place of worship, in which the retrofitting enabled to reduce the energy consumption by 31-66%. Another example is related to the buildings presented in the paper by Biserni et al [28], in which the influence of particular thermal retrofitting stages on the energy savings were investigated.…”

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Influence of Thermal Retrofitting on Annual Energy Demand for Heating in Multi-Family Buildings

2020

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The paper presented the analysis of heat consumption for heating in multi-family residential buildings before and after thermal retrofitting. The analysis involved four groups of buildings, i.e., 43 buildings in total, located in various localities, belonging to one weather station. The predicted level of energy savings resulting from thermal retrofitting was achieved from the energy audits. The actual heat consumption, following the calculation into so-called external standard conditions, was obtained based on the readouts from heat-meters. For each building, the values of heat consumption over the periods of 6–10 years were read. The performance measurements involved the periods before, during, and after thermal retrofitting. The following statistical tests were used for data analysis: Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney, Shapiro–Wilk, Bartlett, ANOVA, Kruskal–Wallis, Dunn and Holm post-hoc. The performed analyses showed that the mean value of energy savings predicted by audits reached 38.5% when the real mean value of savings, achieved from heat-meters, equaled 30.3%. The annual energy demand factors for heating were calculated for final energy and non-renewable primary energy factors. It was established that most of the analyzed objects fulfilled the primary energy factor requirements found in the Polish technical and construction regulations, which were valid at the time of investment.

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“…Woroniak and Piotrowska-Woroniak [7] describe how to thermo-modernize churches to improve energy efficiency, and proposed changes in the heating system and heat source. Five churches were analyzed for thermo-modernization.…”

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Ecological and Economic Benefits of the “Medium” Level of the Building Thermo-Modernization: A Case Study in Poland

Adamczyk

Dylewski

2020

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Energy saving is at the heart of sustainable development in the context of climate change. Saving energy is not only the amount of energy that we save, but also reducing emissions of pollutants to the atmosphere, as well as reducing the consumption of energy resources that are used to produce energy. Reducing pollutant emissions and the use of energy resources can be achieved by increasing the use of renewable energy sources, but at present, this method of obtaining energy in the world is not representative. It should be noted that renewable energy devices throughout the life cycle generate environmental impact. Similar to this situation, the building’s thermo-modernization, which is focused on reducing the pressure on the environment of the building’s user, also has an impact on the environment throughout the building’s life cycle. Determining this environmental impact and ecological or economic benefits or costs is the purpose of the following article. Thermo-modernization of the building, for the purposes of the article, is understood as thermal insulation of walls and replacement of the heat source for heating the building and preparation of hot utility water. The need to replace the heat source with a much more ecological one results in Poland from provincial legal regulations announced by virtue of a resolution. In the study, data from the Ecoinvent data library included in the SimaPro computer program was used for the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) analysis. As a result of thermo-modernization of the representative buildings, large ecological benefits were obtained, while economic costs remain at a high level.

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Effects of pollution reduction and energy consumption reduction in small churches in Drohiczyn community

Cited by 28 publications

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Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

Energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings: A review

Influence of Thermal Retrofitting on Annual Energy Demand for Heating in Multi-Family Buildings

Ecological and Economic Benefits of the “Medium” Level of the Building Thermo-Modernization: A Case Study in Poland

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