Energy Cost-Efficient Rehabilitation Measures for the Portuguese Residential Buildings Constructed in the 1960–1990 Period

Vasconcelos, Ana Brandão de; Pinheiro, Manuel Duarte; Cabaco, Antonio Sánchez; Manso, Armando

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0651-7_2

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“…The present study mainly focuses on the categories form and fabric. Dealing with this topic of research on reference buildings associated with the EPBD, lots of publications from different countries, for instance considering the Greek [11][12][13] or Portuguese [14,15] residential building stock, have been published.…”

Section: Existing Reference Buildingsmentioning

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Development of Reference Buildings to Analyze the Potential for Energy-Efficient Refurbishment of Buildings

Schwan

Hahn

Barton

et al. 2019

Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports

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The building sector offers the largest potential for a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Based on own preliminary investigations for the State of Bavaria, a complete renovation of the building envelope of the current residential building stock would result in a reduced demand for final thermal energy for space heating and domestic hot water by about 70 %. The present study analyzes different existing reference buildings and reference methods. Based on a general literature review, specific criteria will be developed for reference models to represent the thermal energy consumption of the residential building stock for the regional domain under investigation. The objective is to represent the building stock with a limited amount of reference buildings. The method for the development of a reference building will be shown exemplarily for one category.

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Section: Existing Reference Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Reference Buildings to Analyze the Potential for Energy-Efficient Refurbishment of Buildings

Schwan

Hahn

Barton

et al. 2019

Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports

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“…Of all of them, the renovation of a building's thermal enclosure is what is most visible to citizens' eyes, as they see how the appearance of many Spanish cities, mainly those in northern Spain due to its particular climate and the high number of rehabilitation interventions compared to other areas of the country, is being altered substantially by the indiscriminate placement of new and varied skins on the exterior façades of buildings. Although the main rehabilitative efforts are focusing on this part of the building enclosure, the debate about whether it is the most energy efficient and financially profitable option in certain areas of southern Europe is open [5][6][7][8].…”

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A Methodology to Regulate Transformation of a City’s Appearance Due to Energy Efficiency Building Renovations: A Case Study: Errenteria (Spain)

Lizundia,

Uranga,

Azcona

2023

Heritage

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The need to improve the energy performance of European buildings is beyond all doubt, as indicated by the different regulatory determinations on energy and climate change adopted by different public administrations in recent years. The primary actions have focused on improving the thermal enclosure of buildings; the placement of new energy-efficient skins on their exterior façades is consequently beginning to deconfigure, distort, homogenize and globalize the city in an alarming manner. In the case of Spain, the lack of a specific regulation on how to proceed when renovating the vast majority of residential buildings without heritage protection is leaving the ultimate decision in the hands of owner associations. It is therefore urgent to endow municipal administrations with a tool enabling them to regulate and control the transformation of a city’s image before it is too late. To that end, a pioneer methodology is proposed to classify the unprotected building stock of a municipality with a view to future renovation actions, depending on the degree of their vulnerability and the greater or lesser need to protect their image and the other pre-existing features. As a theoretical case study to test the proposed methodology, the locality of Errenteria, Spain, was chosen, demonstrating that it is an effective tool easy to apply in any city nationwide, regardless of the respective location, size and management capacity.

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