Energy Criteria in Adaptive Reuse Decision-Making: A Hybrid DEMATEL-ANP Model for Selecting New Uses of a Historic Building in Poland

Elżbieta Radziszewska-Zielina, Grzegorz Śladowski, Bartłomiej Szewczyk, Małgorzata Fedorczak-Cisak, Alicja Kowalska-Koczwara, Tadeusz Tatara and Krzysztof Barnaś ()
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Elżbieta Radziszewska-Zielina: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology, 31-154 Kraków, Poland
Grzegorz Śladowski: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology, 31-154 Kraków, Poland
Bartłomiej Szewczyk: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology, 31-154 Kraków, Poland
Małgorzata Fedorczak-Cisak: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology, 31-154 Kraków, Poland
Alicja Kowalska-Koczwara: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology, 31-154 Kraków, Poland
Tadeusz Tatara: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology, 31-154 Kraków, Poland
Krzysztof Barnaś: Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, 31-154 Kraków, Poland

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 18, 1-30

Abstract: Historic buildings make up a significant proportion of the existing building stock. Most are characterised by poor technical condition and high energy demand. In Poland, many historic buildings are still in use today, but it is also common to find these buildings subjected to adaptive reuse. Adaptive reuse, often combined with modernisation, is problematic, especially in terms of finding a use that is optimal in the light of use-specific decision criteria. In previous studies, the authors used and developed the potential for the modelling and structural analysis of decision-making problems for the selection of new uses for historic buildings. In this paper, we present a test of this methodology on a Polish historic building. To further the application of our approach in sustainability-focused contexts, we performed the analysis using criteria focused on environmental and energy performance, in addition to other established criteria. In our study, the highest ranking use was a kindergarten, which scored 18% higher than the second-ranked alternative and over 90% higher than the lowest-ranked alternative.

Keywords: historic buildings; sustainability; energy performance; thermal comfort; multi-criteria analysis; DEMATEL; ANP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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