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 application of retrofit actions to existing building stocks can improve the energy
performance of the residential sector. In this context, particular attention should be given to …

Italian energy policy has determined important keystones in building energy efficiency
regulations and their application throughout the country. However, there is still much work to …

The European residential building stock is largely composed of buildings with poor energy
performance, therefore basic retrofit actions could lead to significant energy savings …

In OCSE and developed Countries, the sectors which mostly suffered the 2008 financial and
economic crisis, was the construction and real estate sectors. Furthermore, the buildings are …

The most suitable intervention for energy rehabilitation of historical buildings has to reach
both the goal of the optimization of the energy saving and the preservation of the original …

Abstract Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for
retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU final energy consumption …

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 …

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 …

May energy saving derived from the retrofit of a building be able to pay its costs? The paper
wants to answer to this simple question, reporting a research started with a simple case …