A European Project for Safer and Energy Efficient Buildings: Pro-GET-onE (Proactive Synergy of inteGrated Efficient Technologies on Buildings’ Envelopes)

Annarita Ferrante, Giovanni Mochi, Giorgia Predari, Lorenzo Badini, Anastasia Fotopoulou, Riccardo Gulli and Giovanni Semprini
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Annarita Ferrante: Department of Architecture, School of Engineering and Architecture, (UNIBO), Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Giovanni Mochi: Department of Architecture, School of Engineering and Architecture, (UNIBO), Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Giorgia Predari: Department of Architecture, School of Engineering and Architecture, (UNIBO), Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Lorenzo Badini: Department of Architecture, School of Engineering and Architecture, (UNIBO), Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Anastasia Fotopoulou: Department of Architecture, School of Engineering and Architecture, (UNIBO), Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Riccardo Gulli: Department of Architecture, School of Engineering and Architecture, (UNIBO), Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Giovanni Semprini: Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering and Architecture, (UNIBO), Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-26

Abstract: The paper describes the progress of the four-year European project Pro-GET-onE currently under implementation. This research and innovation project is based on the assumption that greater efficiency, attractiveness, and marketable renovation can only be achieved through an integrated set of technologies where all the different requirements (energy, structural, functional) are optimally managed. Thus, the project focuses on the unprecedented integration of different technologies to achieve a multi-benefit approach that is provided by a closer integration between energy and non-energy related benefits. The project aims to combine different pre-fabricated elements in a unified and integrated system resulting in a higher performance in terms of energy requirements, structural safety, and social sustainability. The project attempts to achieve this goal through the introduction of innovative solutions for building envelopes to optimally combine the climatic, structural, and functional aspects through a significant architectural transformation and a substantial increase of the real estate value of the buildings. This augmented value obtained through the application of the inteGrated Efficient Technologies (GETs) is extremely important when considering the necessity of creating an innovative and attractive market in the energy renovation of existing buildings towards the target of nearly zero energy buildings (nZEBs).

Keywords: building envelope; energy efficiency; seismic improvement; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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