Improvement of energy-efficiency in residential buildings is a crucial issue in Italy, where
55% of the building stock is older than 40 years and real estate assets are responsible for …

Starting from the oil crisis that occurred in the early 1970s, the issue of energy efficiency has
occupied an ever more prominent place in the economic, political, and academic debate. In …

The design and implementation of buildings energy retrofit strategies is a complex process
involving a great number of decision variables and actors, especially when public housing is …

Environmental politics, oriented to the reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions (“20-20-
20 Strategy”), is applied in the European Union through many directives, programs …

In recent years, public authorities around the world have used incentive strategies to
encourage the renovation of the existing building stock to meet the set carbon neutrality …

According to the recent EU Directives on building energy efficiency, the Italian government is
paying particular attention to energy refurbishments of buildings by enacting energy …

The building sector is crucial in all of the possible net zero scenarios suggested for the
European Union. In this area, the Italian situation is exemplary. Italy suffers from an aging …

Residential buildings have become one of the leading sectors in the energy refurbishment
process towards the clean energy transition. Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), based …

In recent decades, the issue of existing buildings' energy retrofit has played a central role in
the context of international and national territorial development policies, mainly due to the …

The study of cost effective solutions for the energy retrofitting of existing buildings is of
capital importance for building asset owners, since high up-front investments are required …