scholarly journals Estimating the Smart Readiness Indicator in the Italian Residential Building Stock in Different Scenarios

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 6442
Author(s):  
Laura Canale ◽  
Marianna De Monaco ◽  
Biagio Di Pietra ◽  
Giovanni Puglisi ◽  
Giorgio Ficco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residential Building ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Energy Retrofit ◽  
Energy Scenario ◽  
Base Scenario ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
Residential Building Stock ◽  
Multicriteria Assessment

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2018/844/EU introduced the smart readiness indicator (SRI) to provide a framework to evaluate and promote building smartness in Europe. In order to establish a methodological framework for the SRI calculation, two technical studies were launched, at the end of which a consolidated methodology to calculate the SRI of a building basing on a flexible and modular multicriteria assessment has been proposed. In this paper the authors applied the above-mentioned methodology to estimate the SRI of the Italian residential building stock in different scenarios. To this end, eight “smart building typologies”, representative of the Italian residential building stock, have been identified. For each smart building typology, the SRI was calculated in three scenarios: (a) base scenario (building stock as it is); (b) an “energy scenario” (simple energy retrofit) and (c) a “smart energy scenario” (energy retrofit from a smart perspective). It was therefore possible to estimate a national average SRI value of 5.0%, 15.7%, and 27.5% in the three above defined scenarios, respectively.

scholarly journals Urban Density and Household-Electricity Consumption: An Analysis of the Italian Residential Building Stock

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Valentina Antoniucci ◽  
Adriano Bisello ◽  
Giuliano Marella
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Urban Density ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Spatial Composition ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
Residential Building Stock

AbstractThe influence of urban density on household electricity consumption is still scarcely investigated, despite the growing attention to building energy performance and the electrification of heating systems advocated at the European level. While the positive correlation between urban sprawl developments and the increasing of marginal costs of public infrastructures, services, amenities, public, and private transports are known, there has been little research on the relationship between urban form and electricity consumption in residential building stock. The present work aims to contribute to filling the gap in the existing literature, presenting the early results of ongoing research on the role of urban form in the household electricity consumption in Italy and, consequently, the related energy costs. The building typology and, in general, the structure of urban dwellings, is crucial to forecasting the electricity requirements, taking into account single housing units and their spatial composition in multi-family homes and neighborhoods. After a brief literature review on the topic, the contribution presents empirical research on the electricity consumption at the municipal level in 140 Italian cities, analyzing the diverse consumption patterns under different conditions of urban density to verify whether there exists a significant statistical correlation between them. The analysis confirms that there is a statistically negative correlation between urban density and the log of electricity consumption, even if its incidence is very limited. Further investigation may highlight whether there exists a threshold for which this relationship would be reversed, explaining the higher electricity consumption in dense metropolitan areas.

scholarly journals Methodology for Residential Building Stock Refurbishment Planning—Development of Local Building Typologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4262
Author(s):  
Dušan Ignjatović ◽  
Zeković Bojana ◽  
Nataša Ćuković Ignjatović ◽  
Ljiljana Đukanović ◽  
Ana Radivojević ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
Residential Building Stock ◽  
Planning Development

This paper presents the methodology for the implementation of building typology principles as a tool for the strategic planning of residential building stock energy retrofits on a municipal level in Serbia. Research was conducted under the IEE EPISCOPE (Intelligent Energy Europe EPISCOPE/TABULA project) project with the aim of developing an adequate tool for creating building stock energy retrofit management strategies on a local level. An approach that envisions the diversity and uneven spatial distribution of building stock in smaller scale municipalities and includes statistically relevant sampling of all relevant building types was developed and tested in the pilot project that focused on the city of Vršac. Two options for local typology development were formulated: a top-down approach, which relies on the data from the national typology or other available databases by reducing them to the local level, and a bottom-up approach, which represents a new data gathering and processing method. Both approaches were tested in the pilot project and the results are compared in this paper. From the conclusions of these analyses, a common methodology for the development of local building typologies has been defined. It can be used in the strategic planning of building stock, whether for the purpose of developing local energy action plans (LEAPs) or other purposes internationally.

scholarly journals Energy Modelling and Retrofit of the Residential Building Stock of Jiangsu Province

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Cimillo ◽  
Filippo Calcerano ◽  
Xi Chen ◽  
David Chow ◽  
Elena Gigliarelli
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Energy Retrofit ◽  
Energy Modelling ◽  
Occupant Comfort ◽  
Residential Building Stock

Thecontributiondiscussestheenergyuseandcharacteristicsoftheresidentialbuilding stock in Jiangsu Province (China), with a focus on the potential of large-scale energy retrofit to mitigate environmental impact and running costs of its most inefficient vintages, while improving occupant comfort and reducing the need for demolition and reconstruction in the upgrading of the stock. Whilethehistoricalpartoftheresidentialstockisprofoundlyrootedinthelocaltraditions and adapted to the climate of the region, the development of the newer building typologies, that currently constitute the majority of the extant buildings, has been drastically shaped by different international influences starting form the 20

scholarly journals Techno-economic potential of large-scale energy retrofit in the Swiss residential building stock

2017 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 121-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Nino Streicher ◽  
David Parra ◽  
Meinrad C. Buerer ◽  
Martin K. Patel
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Energy Retrofit ◽  
Residential Building Stock
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