Reconciling Heritage Buildings' Preservation with Energy Transition ...

Our research advocates for a “whole building approach”, integrating various disciplines to achieve low-energy retrofitting while preserving historical material ...

The main findings highlight the importance of a life-cycle perspective and of conservation plans for heritage assessment. The experts all agreed ...

Reconciling Heritage Buildings' Preservation with Energy Transition ...

However, achieving nearly zero-energy building (nZEB) standards in historic buildings is a complex challenge, as heritage values cannot be compromised for the ...

Making a Case for Heritage: Building Conservation

Retrofitting old buildings may be the most important action to mitigate climate change. · The embodied energy of a building increases by 144% by the time it is ...

Green retrofitting of heritage buildings based on (3Ts) framework

Lastly, green retrofitting initiatives include a trade-off between physical interventions related to heritage preservation and energy savings (Samir et al., ...

Cultural Heritage Protection & Embodied Energy - Uniform November

The adaptive reuse approach works with the embodied energy of a historic building. It helps protect the building and the energy it took to build it in the ...

Protecting World Heritage during the Energy Transition

National strategies and policies for the transition to renewable energy and initiatives for decarbonization are often based on the strategic principles and ...

Sustainable Historic Preservation | WBDG

Preservation maximizes the use of existing materials and infrastructure, reduces waste, and preserves the historic character of older towns and cities. The ...

Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity - Columbia GSAPP

Preservationists capitalized on embodied energy as further justification for conserving historic buildings, but at the same time successfully argued that ...

Article Versions Notes - MDPI

Reconciling Heritage Buildings' Preservation with Energy Transition Goals: Insights from an Italian Case Study. ... "Reconciling Heritage Buildings' Preservation ...

Environmental feasibility of heritage buildings rehabilitation

The main driver of environmental benefits in the literature is “embodied energy”, which is the cumulative energy inputs that were required to construct the ...

Preservation and Sustainability - National Park Service

Our limited engagement in the mitigation dialogue has been primarily through advocating that old buildings are inherently green, given their embodied energy and ...

Retrofit of Heritage Buildings in Contexts of Energy Vulnerability ...

The historic buildings conservation by itself is a necessary but not sufficient condition to a restoration project; without a sustainable re-use strategy, it is ...

Cultural heritage and energy transition – A lesson from the past

Franco, G. and Mauri, S. (2024), “Reconciling Heritage Buildings' Preservation with Energy Transition Goals – Insights from an Italian Case ...

Adaptive reuse and energy transition of built heritage and historic ...

As the growing urgency in climate neutrality, the resilience of existing historic buildings and vegetal elements is critical especially for the ...

Sustaining Our Heritage: How Historic Buildings Can Support The ...

Preserving the Past, Shaping the Future · Historic Buildings and The Energy Transition · Tailored Energy Solutions for Historic Buildings.

Energy performance in heritage buildings - Ministère de la Culture

The Ministry of Culture is committed to reconciling heritage conservation with energy performance and even energy efficiency objectives.

Reconciling environmental performance and heritage significance

This paper discusses issues associated with new expectations for environmental performance and energy efficiency of buildings of traditional construction and ...

Building Resilience and Sustainability - Heritage BC

Literature review and case study synthesis on the benefits of heritage building conservation and how sustainability-focused strategies may be applied to enhance ...

Reconciling Preservation and Sustainability | Architect Magazine

One movement seeks to wisely use energy, water, and materials, while the other seeks to revitalize historic buildings for current use in ways that maintain ...