Nowadays, restoration interventions that aim for minimum environmental impact are
conceived for recent buildings. Greenhouse gas emissions are reduced using criteria met …

Integrating multi-criteria approaches for reducing greenhouse gas emissions while, at the
same time, ensuring long-term maintenance of existing buildings, is a challenge that needs …

The paper points out the opportunity to address the current need for energy retrofitting of the
historical built heritage according to a long-term perspective. For this purpose, it focuses on …

Within the ongoing international debate on methods and tools that might help include the
built heritage as strategic target within the policies for NZE buildings, the paper develops a …

Historic buildings need to be re-functionalized because of environmental factors, economic
reasons, socio-cultural changes. During the re-functionalization-renovation period, only the …

Focusing on the uncertainties of climate change and its effects on the built environment, on
the energy responsibilities of residential building stock and on the dichotomy between the …

User behaviour can significantly affect indoor thermal comfort conditions, as well as energy
consumption, especially in existing buildings with high thermal masses where natural cross …

Within the energy assessment and retrofitting of historical buildings, a key role is played by
understanding and counteracting moisture-related problems, which might result from a …

User behaviour can significantly affect indoor thermal comfort conditions, as well as energy
consumption, especially in existing buildings with high thermal masses where natural cross …

The paper is going to discuss and validate a methodological framework for the integrated
and coordinated retrofitting of historic urban districts, between conservation of their unique …