The Energy-Oriented Management of Public Historic Buildings: An Integrated Approach and Methodology Applications

Cristina Cecchini, Anna Magrini and Marco Morandotti
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Cristina Cecchini: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 3 27100 Pavia, Italy
Anna Magrini: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 3 27100 Pavia, Italy
Marco Morandotti: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 3 27100 Pavia, Italy

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: In the European framework, there is a strong drive to develop integrated approaches aimed at understanding and improving the energy behavior of public historic buildings within urban contexts. However, the examples already provided tend to address the issue from mono-disciplinary perspectives, losing the opportunity for a coordinated view. The research suggests a methodology to reach the definition of a three-dimensional database, which incorporates spatial models and energy information, with the final goal of merging heterogeneous information that is useful to interpret the overall framework and to design sustainable development scenarios. The platform achieves GIS (Geographic Information System) and BIM (Building Information Modeling) integration by using the CityGML data model, for supporting multi-scale analyses without break of continuity, ranging from urban to building level. The discussion combines the applicative case with the theoretical background, deepening the role of a solid knowledge framework as a basis for sustainable interventions on public historic buildings. To better explain and test the methodology, a case study on the University built heritage of Pavia is presented and three possible outputs deriving from the database are discussed. The example demonstrates the strength of the approach, which is able to provide a variety of results coming from a unique source of information, ensuring coherence and unambiguousness at all levels of investigation.

Keywords: public historic buildings; multi-scale energy modelling; energy-oriented management; spatial relational database (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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