Clay barriers for protecting historic buildings from ground moisture intrusion

Thermal-energy analysis of roof cool clay tiles for application in historic buildings and cities

More than 90% of historic buildings have traditional clay tiles as roof covering exposed to solar radiation, largely impacting buildings’ thermal-energy performance and urban climate, since most of historic buildings are located in dense urban contexts. In this view, the optimization of these traditional elements could represent a key research issue, with the purpose of building energy retrofit...

A Model for Ground-Coupled Heat and Moisture Transfer from Buildings

Energy efficiency in historic buildings

The particularity of cultural heritage and its interaction with the theme of energy efficiency has often been analysed either for the purposes of integrating climate control systems in listed buildings, which can be quite a complicated problem [ASHRAE, 2003] [CIBSE, 2002], or in the framework of the conservation of cultural heritage, using approaches which at times can be overly sectoral – [Tet...

Protecting Buildings against Airborne Contamination

Consider the following scenario. At 8:30 a.m. on an ordinary day at Central Headquarters facility, a vending machine service technician arrives. He shows his contractor badge to security, opens his toolbox for inspection, and walks though the metal detector. He is waved through and proceeds on his rounds. At his second vending machine cluster, he opens the machine, adjusts the coin mechanism , ...

new functions in historic buildings

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