Energy related practices in Mediterranean low-income housing

Domínguez-Amarillo, Samuel; Fernández-Agüera, Jésica; Peacock, Andrew; Acosta, Ignacio

doi:10.1080/09613218.2019.1661764

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“…In general, the month was warm (average temperature of 13.8 °C and +0.9 °C of anomaly). Like the previous month, April was also very humid (the sixth rainiest month of April in the 21st century with 16 days of precipitation including storms) [ 60 ]. The period prior to confinement had an average outside temperature difference of +2.5 °C with respect to this the confinement period.…”

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Bad Air Can Also Kill: Residential Indoor Air Quality and Pollutant Exposure Risk during the COVID-19 Crisis

Domínguez-Amarillo

Fernández-Agüera

Cesteros-García

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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During the first outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the population, focusing primarily on the risk of infection, was generally inattentive to the quality of indoor air. Spain, and the city of Madrid in particular, were among the world’s coronavirus hotspots. The country’s entire population was subject to a 24/7 lockdown for 45 days. This paper describes a comparative longitudinal survey of air quality in four types of housing in the city of Madrid before and during lockdown. The paper analysed indoor temperatures and variations in CO2, 2.5 μm particulate matter (PM2.5) and total volatile organic compound (TVOC) concentrations before and during lockdown. The mean daily outdoor PM2.5 concentration declined from 11.04 µg/m3 before to 7.10 µg/m3 during lockdown. Before lockdown the NO2 concentration values scored as ‘very good’ 46% of the time, compared to 90.9% during that period. Although the city’s outdoor air quality improved, during lockdown the population’s exposure to indoor pollutants was generally more acute and prolonged. Due primarily to concern over domestic energy savings, the lack of suitable ventilation and more intensive use of cleaning products and disinfectants during the covid-19 crisis, indoor pollutant levels were typically higher than compatible with healthy environments. Mean daily PM2.5 concentration rose by approximately 12% and mean TVOC concentration by 37% to 559%. The paper also puts forward a series of recommendations to improve indoor domestic environments in future pandemics and spells out urgent action to be taken around indoor air quality (IAQ) in the event of total or partial quarantining to protect residents from respiratory ailments and concomitantly enhanced susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, as identified by international medical research.

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Bad Air Can Also Kill: Residential Indoor Air Quality and Pollutant Exposure Risk during the COVID-19 Crisis

Domínguez-Amarillo

Fernández-Agüera

Cesteros-García

et al. 2020

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“…2. This free-running condition is commonly found in residential buildings in the Mediterranean climate, where air-conditioning systems, predominantly located in some single rooms within the dwellings, are used sporadically when necessary (Domínguez-Amarillo et al, 2020;Lizana et al, 2016;Sendra et al, 2013).…”

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Integrating courtyard microclimate in building performance to mitigate extreme urban heat impacts

Lizana

López-Cabeza

Renaldi

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Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…The sustainability and improvement of building energy performance are, indeed, the most common topics in studies related to social housing management or similar housing stocks (e.g., Blázquez et al, 2021;Cubillos-González & Cardoso, 2020;Domínguez-Amarillo et al, 2020;Jnat et al, 2020). In the Italian context, Dall'O' et al (2020), Ferrara et al (2017, Pierangioli et al (2017) and Filippi and Sirombo (2019) explore and provide solutions for social housing issues.…”

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Management of the maintenance process in social housing: A case study

Corallo

Lazoi

Malagnino

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Knowl Process Manag

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Digital transformation of private and public entities is a process strongly encouraged by the European Commission. The social housing sector, which provides long‐term housing or subsidies for vulnerable households, struggles to reach a good digitalization level and needs specific solutions that address its technical, financial, and administrative peculiarities. Indeed, the social housing sector often faces issues related to insufficient available funds that can be used for optimizing assets' maintenance operations, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of building occupants with better management of financial resources. Furthermore, it is not a widely explored area by the research community. To provide digital solutions for innovating the management of the property assets and, specifically, the maintenance activities for social housing, the paper presents a case study from the Italian social housing system. Current available processes, data, and information systems are explored to propose a solution for the visualization and management of collected data at the provincial, municipality, and building levels. The main purpose is to support decision makers for maintenance activities. Scholars and practitioners in this research field can benefit from the proposed solution to lead actions for the digital transition of the social housing sector.

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Energy related practices in Mediterranean low-income housing

Cited by 19 publications

References 50 publications

Bad Air Can Also Kill: Residential Indoor Air Quality and Pollutant Exposure Risk during the COVID-19 Crisis

Bad Air Can Also Kill: Residential Indoor Air Quality and Pollutant Exposure Risk during the COVID-19 Crisis

Integrating courtyard microclimate in building performance to mitigate extreme urban heat impacts

Management of the maintenance process in social housing: A case study

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