Minimal Monitoring of Improvements in Energy Performance after Envelope Renovation in Subsidized Single Family Housing in Madrid

Fernando Martín-Consuegra, Fernando de Frutos, Ignacio Oteiza, Carmen Alonso and Borja Frutos
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Fernando Martín-Consuegra: Instituto Eduardo Torroja de Ciencias de la Construcción, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/ Serrano Galvache 4, 28033 Madrid, Spain
Fernando de Frutos: Instituto Eduardo Torroja de Ciencias de la Construcción, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/ Serrano Galvache 4, 28033 Madrid, Spain
Ignacio Oteiza: Instituto Eduardo Torroja de Ciencias de la Construcción, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/ Serrano Galvache 4, 28033 Madrid, Spain
Carmen Alonso: Instituto Eduardo Torroja de Ciencias de la Construcción, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/ Serrano Galvache 4, 28033 Madrid, Spain
Borja Frutos: Instituto Eduardo Torroja de Ciencias de la Construcción, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/ Serrano Galvache 4, 28033 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-26

Abstract: This study quantified the improvement in energy efficiency following passive renovation of the thermal envelope in highly inefficient residential complexes on the outskirts of the city of Madrid. A case study was conducted of a single-family terrace housing, representative of the smallest size subsidized dwellings built in Spain for workers in the nineteen fifties and sixties. Two units of similar characteristics, one in its original state and the other renovated, were analyzed in detail against their urban setting with an experimental method proposed hereunder for simplified, minimal monitoring. The dwellings were compared on the grounds of indoor environment quality parameters recorded over a period covering both winter and summer months. That information was supplemented with an analysis of the energy consumption metered. The result was a low-cost, reasonably accurate measure of the improvements gained in the renovated unit. The monitoring output data were entered in a theoretical energy efficiency model for the entire neighborhood to obtain an estimate of the potential for energy savings if the entire urban complex were renovated.

Keywords: energy retrofit; envelope renovation; monitoring; performance; consumption; indoor environmental quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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