Download or read book Integrated Seismic and Energy Renovation of Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our buildings are ageing, posing an urgent need for renovation to achieve multidimensional European and international goals. Integrated renovation of buildings provides a unique opportunity to create a safe, sustainable and inclusive built environment, as it lies at the nexus between European policies on disaster resilience, energy efficiency, circularity and social cohesion. The pilot project 'Integrated techniques for the seismic strengthening and energy efficiency of existing buildings' promotes this holistic view of renovation, provides scientific support to building renovation policies in the EU and encourages their further development. This science-for-policy report summarises the main outcomes of the pilot project. Existing seismic, energy and combined/ integrated renovation technologies were reviewed. A simplified method for assessing the benefit of combined renovation was proposed and applied to representative buildings. An integrated framework was developed for regional impact analysis. Seismic risk, energy performance and socioeconomic aspects were assessed throughout Europe to identify priority regions and investigate renovation scenarios. Integrated renovation can save lives, energy and investments while reducing the environmental burden. Policy makers, EU, national and regional authorities together with practitioners and the public are the beneficiaries of this project.
Download or read book Energy and Seismic Renovation Strategies for Sustainable Cities written by Giuseppe Margani and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principle of sustainability should be strictly connected with safety, since both aim to conserve resources: in the case of sustainability, the resources are typically thought of as environmental, while in the case of safety, the resources are basically human. In spite of this common ground, discussions on sustainability usually give insufficient attention to safety. In the last years the EU has made large investments to increase the energy efficiency of the existing building stock, paving the way for a low-carbon future; however, less effort has been made to enhance its seismic resilience. Therefore, the safety and, consequently, the sustainability of towns situated in earthquake-prone countries remain inadequate. In such countries, energy renovation actions should be combined with seismic retrofitting. However, a number of barriers considerably limit the real possibility of extensively undertaking combined retrofit actions, especially for multi-owner housing and high-rise buildings. These barriers are of different kinds: technical (e.g., unfeasibility and/or ineffectiveness of conventional retrofit solutions), financial (e.g., high renovation costs, insufficient incentives/subsidies), organizational (e.g., occupants’ disruption and relocation, renovation consensus by condominium ownerships), and cultural/social (insufficient information and skills, lack of adequate policy measures for promoting renovation actions). This book aims to overcome these barriers and to bridge the gap between sustainability and safety, so to conserve both human and environmental resources.
Download or read book Integrative Approach to Comprehensive Building Renovations written by Vesna Žegarac Leskovar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new approach to building renovation, combining aspects of various professional disciplines, integrating green building design, structural stability, and energy efficiency. It draws attention to several often-overlooked qualities of buildings that should be comprehensively integrated into the context of building renovation. The book presents an overview of the most important renovation approaches according to their scope, intensity, and priorities. Combining basic theoretical knowledge and the authors’ scientific research it emphasizes the importance of simultaneous consideration of energy efficiency and structural stability in building renovation processes. It simultaneously analyses the effects of various renovation steps related to the required level of energy efficiency, while it also proposes the options of building extension with timber-glass upgrade modules as the solution to a shortage of usable floor areas occurring in large cities. This book offers building designers and decision makers a tool for predicting energy savings in building renovation processes and provides useful guidelines for architects, city developers and students studying architecture and civil engineering. Additionally, it demonstrates how specific innovations, e.g., building extensions with timber-glass modules, can assist building industry companies in the planning and development of their future production. The main aim of the current book is to expose various approaches to the renovation of existing buildings and to combine practical experience with existing research, in order to disseminate knowledge and raise awareness on the importance of integrative and interdisciplinary solutions.
Download or read book Integrated Techniques for the Seismic Strengthening and Energy Efficiency of Existing Buildings written by K. Gkatzogias and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes threaten a large percentage of homes and public buildings across the EU. At the same time, inefficient energy consumption from these outdated buildings is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. A pilot project puts forward a holistic approach to improve simultaneously the seismic safety and energy efficiency of the European building stock. Our sustainable approach will combine renovation efforts that reduce building vulnerability to protect lives and will update the energy efficiency of ageing structures to significantly reduce CO2 emissions and tackle energy poverty, while reducing the retrofit's environmental impact. The pilot project directly supports several European Commission priorities including the Green Deal's call for renovating in an energy and resource efficient way. It provides technical background in support of the Renovation Wave initiative and an action plan to modernise the European building stock. The workshop has the following objectives: Create awareness among participants of the issue's challenges and opportunities Engage stakeholders to create a network for information exchange Present the pilot project and share the knowledge produced Exchange ideas on technical/scientific and policy issues Collect feedback on needs, knowledge gaps and expectations to inform efforts in the second phase of the pilot project.
Download or read book Identification of European Buildings Most Needing Seismic and Energy Retrofit with a Focus on the Italian Context written by Elvira Romano and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent need to speed up the renovation of the European built environment, making it more energy-efficient and less carbon intensive over its entire life cycle, is a key-priority in the EU to mark a turning-point towards the green transition by 2050. Furthermore, the existing building stock in the EU seismic prone regions is also affected by seismic vulnerability leading to significant social and economic impacts due to the extensive damage or collapse of buildings in case of seismic events, as demonstrated by past and more recent earthquakes (e.g. 1999 Athens, 2009 L'Aquila, 2012 Emilia Romagna, 2016 Central Italy). Hence, the effort to consider an integrated approach for making existing buildings simultaneously safe and sustainable is of paramount importance. In this framework, the pilot project 'Integrated techniques for the seismic strengthening and energy efficiency of existing buildings' or REEBUILD aims to define retrofit solutions able to achieve the reduction of seismic vulnerability and the increase of energy efficiency of the EU existing building stock, at the same time and in the least invasive way. This holistic approach consequently leads to significant environmental benefits by reducing the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the waste generated by means of building replacement actions, as well as minimises economic losses and fatalities due to future earthquake disasters, supporting several EU policies related to the sustainable renovation of buildings.
Download or read book Assessment Methodologies for the Combined Seismic and Energy Retrofit of Existing Buildings written by Elvira Romano and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renovation of the EU existing built environment to make it more energy-efficient and less carbon intensive over its entire life cycle, as emphasised by the Renovation Wave strategy within the European Green Deal, assumes a key-role to meet the ambitious goal of a climate-neutral society and economy by 2050. However, the European existing building stock, mainly located in the EU seismic-prone regions, also suffers from seismic vulnerability leading to detrimental social, economic, and environmental impacts in case of an earthquake. Hence, it is essential to boost integrated renovation interventions aimed at simultaneously enhancing the seismic and energy performances of buildings to effectively achieve a safe, resilient and sustainable building sector.
Download or read book Methodologies for the Assessment of the Combined Seismic and Energy Retrofit of Existing Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This technical report presents the study carried out within the Action 3 'Methodologies for assessing the combined effect of upgrading' of REEBUILD project, introducing a simplified integrated method for the assessment of the combined seismic and energy retrofit of existing buildings, along with their environmental performance, in a life-cycle perspective by achieving a global assessment result in economic terms. The development of a user-friendly method to assess the potential improvements achieved in a combined renovation project is essential to ease and speed up the knowledge of benefits that different stakeholders e.g. owners, industry, policy makers, etc., can gain by combining seismic safety and energy efficiency retrofit technologies, thus overcoming renovation barriers, such as intervention cost, execution time, inhabitants' relocation, institutional and administrative issues. A review of the existing methodologies for the seismic and energy retrofit assessment of existing buildings is first carried out, serving as a state-of-the-art for proposing the simplified combined assessment method. Specifically, two key-streams of available methods and tools are investigated: (i) sector-specific methods, focusing on methods and tools devoted to the independent assessment of either seismic or environmental/energy performance of buildings, and (ii) multi-performance methods, including sustainability assessment methods and tools, mainly focused on qualitative procedures (i.e. sustainability rating systems based on indicators of different weight), and integrated methodologies developed in the last years to provide a quantitative holistic life cycle-based assessment. Within the latter category of the analysed existing assessment methods, the Sustainable Structural Design (SDD) methodology, developed in the framework of the SAFESUST (SAFEty and SUSTainability) approach results particularly noteworthy. Hence, it is considered as point of reference to introduce a simplified combined assessment method, consisting of four main steps, namely (i) input information, (ii) selection of techniques, (iii) integrated retrofit design and evaluation, and (iv) optimised solutions. Finally, four case studies referring to EU representative residential and non-residential building typologies needing combined seismic and energy retrofit are identified in order to apply both the selected standard (i.e. SSD methodology) and the proposed simplified combined assessment method.
Download or read book IRESIST written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European building stock is ageing and requires significant renovation efforts to improve its energy performance and ensure structural safety and resilience. Within the European Green Deal, the Renovation Wave initiative promotes increases in building renovation rates to ensure that ambitious EU energy saving targets for 2030 and beyond can be achieved. To incentivise renovation further, integrating energy retrofitting with seismic strengthening is explored in the Exploratory Research project iRESIST+ by investigating a novel seismic-plus-energy retrofit. The research conducted in iRESIST+ is of high timeliness and has relevance for the policy areas related to the energy efficiency of buildings, circular-economy principles, as well as resilience.
Download or read book Energy and Seismic Renovation Strategies for Sustainable Cities written by Giuseppe Margani and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principle of sustainability should be strictly connected with safety, since both aim to conserve resources: in the case of sustainability, the resources are typically thought of as environmental, while in the case of safety, the resources are basically human. In spite of this common ground, discussions on sustainability usually give insufficient attention to safety. In the last years the EU has made large investments to increase the energy efficiency of the existing building stock, paving the way for a low-carbon future; however, less effort has been made to enhance its seismic resilience. Therefore, the safety and, consequently, the sustainability of towns situated in earthquake-prone countries remain inadequate. In such countries, energy renovation actions should be combined with seismic retrofitting. However, a number of barriers considerably limit the real possibility of extensively undertaking combined retrofit actions, especially for multi-owner housing and high-rise buildings. These barriers are of different kinds: technical (e.g., unfeasibility and/or ineffectiveness of conventional retrofit solutions), financial (e.g., high renovation costs, insufficient incentives/subsidies), organizational (e.g., occupants' disruption and relocation, renovation consensus by condominium ownerships), and cultural/social (insufficient information and skills, lack of adequate policy measures for promoting renovation actions). This book aims to overcome these barriers and to bridge the gap between sustainability and safety, so to conserve both human and environmental resources.
Download or read book Integrated Seismic Design of Structure and Control Systems written by Paolo Castaldo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structural optimization procedure presented in this book makes it possible to achieve seismic protection through integrated structural/control system design. In particular, it is explained how slender structural systems with a high seismic performance can be achieved through inclusion of viscous and viscoelastic dampers as an integral part of the system. Readers are provided with essential introductory information on passive structural control and passive energy dissipation systems. Dynamic analyses of both single and multiple degree of freedom systems are performed in order to verify the achievement of pre-assigned performance targets, and it is explained how the optimal integrated design methodology, also relevant to retrofitting of existing buildings, should be applied. The book illustrates how structural control research is opening up new possibilities in structural forms and configurations without compromising structural performance.
Download or read book Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective written by Stefano Della Torre and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry and intervention with respect to the built environment, based on principles of sustainability and circular economy strategies. A series of key challenges are considered in depth from a multidisciplinary perspective, spanning engineering, architecture, and regional and urban economics. These challenges include strategies to relaunch socioeconomic development through regenerative processes, the regeneration of urban spaces from the perspective of resilience, the development and deployment of innovative products and processes in the construction sector in order to comply more fully with the principles of sustainability and circularity, and the development of multiscale approaches to enhance the performance of both the existing building stock and new buildings. The book offers a rich selection of conceptual, empirical, methodological, technical, and case study/project-based research. It will be of value for all who have an interest in regeneration of the built environment from a circular economy perspective.
Download or read book Energy and Seismic Rehabilitation of RC Buildings Through an Integrated Approach written by Antonio Dangola and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high number of existing buildings in Italy without adequate seismic and thermal performances requires the definition of integrated retrofitting techniques in order to improve the seismic performance and to reduce energy losses at the same time. On one hand, an integrated approach appears mandatory considering that improving only the energy efficiency of nonseismic buildings leads to an increase of their exposure and, therefore, of their risk in the case of seismic events. On the other hand, seismic strengthening without an adequate thermal assessment and rehabilitation could compromise living comfort and energy maintenance costs. In this context, an application of integrated approach for the rehabilitation of reinforced concrete (RC) existing buildings has been proposed referring to a case study representative of the Italian building stock. Different configurations of infill panels have been considered in order to analyze both energy and seismic performance. Monthly quasi-steady state and hourly dynamic models have been used for the calculation of the energy need of buildings located in different Italian climate and seismic zones. Seismic performances have been evaluated by means of incremental nonlinear dynamic analysis (IDA). As-built and post-retrofit performances have been compared in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed intervention solutions.
Download or read book Smart Sustainable Infrastructure Building a Greener Tomorrow written by Nemkumar Banthia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Benefit Cost Model for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards Supporting Documentation written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) handbook can be used by trained personnel to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially seismically vulnerable. The RVS procedure comprises a method and several forms that help users to quickly identify, inventory, and score buildings according to their risk of collapse if hit by major earthquakes. The RVS handbook describes how to identify the structural type and key weakness characteristics, how to complete the screening forms, and how to manage a successful RVS program.
Download or read book Cost Effective Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting written by F. Pacheco-Torgal and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost-Effective Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting:Materials, Technologies, Optimization and Case Studies provides essential knowledge for civil engineers, architects, and other professionals working in the field of cost-effective energy efficient building retrofitting. The building sector is responsible for high energy consumption and its global demand is expected to grow as each day there are approximately 200,000 new inhabitants on planet Earth. The majority of electric energy will continue to be generated from the combustion of fossil fuels releasing not only carbon dioxide, but also methane and nitrous oxide. Energy efficiency measures are therefore crucial to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of the building sector. Energy efficient building retrofitting needs to not only be technically feasible, but also economically viable. New building materials and advanced technologies already exist, but the knowledge to integrate all active components is still scarce and far from being widespread among building industry stakeholders. - Emphasizes cost-effective methods for the refurbishment of existing buildings, presenting state-of-the-art technologies - Includes detailed case studies that explain various methods and Net Zero Energy - Explains optimal analysis and prioritization of cost effective strategies
Download or read book Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings written by Reza Mokarram Aydenlou and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings covers various structures, effective parameters in seismic improvement, and other factors in seismic loading in eight applied chapters with descriptive classification. The book offers guidance for a seismic rehabilitation project based on the interpretation of publications FEMA and Iranian seismic rehabilitation regulations no.360 . It includes real examples of completed and approved projects to stabilize the seismic improvement issues of existing buildings. Six perfectly executed examples, with complete refinement details, such as modeling, step-by-step improvement studies, and executive plans and seismic enhancement images are included. The book also explains the classification of non-structural element and how to carry out it's seismic reconstruction studies and in one of the chapters, construction and soil improvement methods are discussed along with a practical example.The concepts of seismic rehabilitation in this book are presented with an Info-graphic structure that better fixes the concepts in the minds of readers so that when they face a new project, they have a more practical use of the content - Provides a fully functional way to evaluate, model and present details of a seismic rehabilitation plan for a building - Presents real seismic refurbishment models and step-by-step methods for providing examples (including images, tables and charts)
