Energy and economic analysis on retrofit actions for Italian public historic buildings

Galatioto, Alessandra; Ricciu, Roberto; Salem, Talal; Kinab, Elias

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2019.03.167

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“…Targeted incentives are needed to address the energy improvement needs of specific stakeholders and/or buildings that are vulnerable to high costs risks [ 96 , 97 ]. Hoicka et al [ 18 ] suggested that sub-sets of population should be targeted through incentives to achieve desired outcomes.…”

Section: Canada's Building Energy Efficiency Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The majority of Canadian buildings were constructed prior to the implementation of new energy-efficient building codes. Furthermore, old buildings that form a part of the cultural heritage have limited options in energy upgrades and require special incentives for energy improvement [ 97 , 108 ]. Hence it is essential to reduce the energy use in these old buildings to meet carbon targets.…”

Section: Canada's Building Energy Efficiency Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluation of financial incentives for green buildings in Canadian landscape

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Financial Incentives (FIs) for green buildings are a major component of energy policy planning and play a vital role in the promotion of sustainable development and carbon mitigation strategies. Despite the presence of numerous FIs in Canada, there is still a lack of understanding on their distribution and effectiveness. This review first investigates the FIs available for residential and commercial buildings in Canada, and then performs a comprehensive review of studies related to FIs’ effectiveness evaluation. It is found that FIs for buildings in Canada can be distributed into four categories: tax, loans, grants, and rebates. Among these, rebates from utility providers are the most common and are administered in all provinces. In addition to these, special incentives are available for three end-users (low-income, aboriginal people, landlords and tenants) and for three types of buildings (heritage, non-profit and energy rated). A clear contrast is observed on FIs offered in three regulatory regimes (Federal, provincial and municipal). Four provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec) are leading in green building efforts. The in-depth literature review was also used to develop an understanding on the criteria used in effectiveness evaluation and the factors impacting effectiveness. Based on the findings of different studies on FIs effectiveness, a generic approach for evaluation of FIs is proposed that can help in deploying successful FIs programs. The results of this review are of importance to the policymakers, government authorities, and utilities engaged in designing and improving FIs for energy efficient buildings.

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Evaluation of financial incentives for green buildings in Canadian landscape

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“…The impact of energy retrofit on the energy performance of historic buildings has been examined previously, including of a wide range of retrofit interventions regarding envelope improvement and HVAC system updates [57,58]. Overall, the positive impact of retrofit on the energy performance encourages the promotion of retrofit in historic buildings.…”

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What Are the Implications of Climate Change for Retrofitted Historic Buildings? A Literature Review

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Historic buildings account for more than one-quarter of Europe’s existing building stock and are going to be crucial in the achievement of future energy targets. Although a drastic reduction in carbon emissions would slow climate change, an alteration in the climate is already certain. Therefore, the impact of climate change on retrofitted historic buildings should be considered in terms of occupants’ comfort, heritage conservation, and energy performance. Inappropriate interventions might weaken the potential of traditional climate adaptive solutions, such as thermal mass and night cooling, leading to higher risks of overheating in a warming climate. Similarly, retrofit solutions will change the moisture dynamics of historic envelopes, which might lead to moisture damages when combined with more extreme precipitation events. This paper reviews recent literature that provides evidence of climate change’s impact on retrofitted buildings, reveals potential future risks, and thereby sheds light on new factors influencing the decision-making process in the retrofit of historic buildings.

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“…Zhang et al [10] developed an economic model for ECM and conducted an economic efficiency assessment by applying the SIR method for various ECMs in four climate areas in China. Galatioto et al [22] developed an evaluation model to determine the optimal retrofit cost for historical buildings in Italy and analyzed the LCC and PP for various retrofit measures. In many other studies [23][24][25][26], the investment cost and LCC for the application of various ECMs have been calculated and their relationships to energy savings or PP have been analyzed.…”

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“…This study attempted to conduct an economic analysis based on the developed ECM cost data. In order to identify the economic feasibility of ECMs as in the above-mentioned various previous researches [10,[22][23][24][25][26], the SIR, which quantifies the energy saving to the investment cost, and the PP of the investment cost were selected as the indices of assessment. The following Equations (1) and 2describe the equations to calculate SIR and PP, respectively:…”

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Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code

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Building energy codes are key policy tools for improving building energy efficiency by defining the minimum requirement for the energy performance of new buildings. In Korea, the building energy code was focused on prescriptive criteria for a long time but is now gradually introducing performance criteria. However, switching to performance criteria is not straightforward because of the resistance of the market to abandoning the well-consolidated prescriptive criteria. The objective of this study is to derive appropriate measures to strengthen the prescriptive criteria and the performance criteria, considering both the energy-saving effect and the economic efficiency for new office buildings and educational buildings to increase the market acceptance of the building energy codes. To this end, the energy-saving effects of reference buildings resulting from the reinforcement of the prescriptive criteria in the past have been first analyzed. Then, based on the collected energy performance parameters and cost data, the economic efficiency relative to the energy saving deriving from the application of passive and active energy conservation measures (ECMs) were analyzed, and future building energy code’s reinforcement measures were derived.

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Energy and economic analysis on retrofit actions for Italian public historic buildings

Cited by 55 publications

References 20 publications

Evaluation of financial incentives for green buildings in Canadian landscape

Evaluation of financial incentives for green buildings in Canadian landscape

What Are the Implications of Climate Change for Retrofitted Historic Buildings? A Literature Review

Analysis of Energy Saving Effect and Cost Efficiency of ECMs to Upgrade the Building Energy Code

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