Historical buildings: Multidisciplinary approach to structural/energy diagnosis and performance assessment

Fabrizio Ascione, Francesca Ceroni, Rosa Francesca De Masi, Filippo de’ Rossi, and Maria Rosaria Pecce

Applied Energy, 2017, vol. 185, issue P2, 1517-1528

Abstract: The evaluation of performance of historical masonry buildings requires a multidisciplinary approach. Indeed, the use and functionality of a building is a multidisciplinary item related to various issues as structural and thermal aspects, acoustic requirements and efficiency of active energy systems. Since these buildings are often used for strategic, educational and recreational facilities (offices, hospital, barrack, school, university, library, museum) or as residences, they frequently need both structural interventions for warrant safety under static and dynamic actions and energy refurbishment for warrant a comfortable and optimal use of the building depending on its specific use. Since the energy refurbishment can be easily associated to structural consolidation or functional reorganization works, this paper is aimed to introduce a methodological approach with reference to both structural behavior and energy performance for the space heating and cooling.

Keywords: Building analyses; Seismic engineering; Structural modeling; Performance based design; Energy retrofit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.11.089

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