Retrofit Strategies for Energy Efficiency of Historic Urban Fabric in Mediterranean Climate

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...

Looking for a New Order in Urban Energy Efficient Strategies in Urban Studies

Climate and Energy in Urban Areas to Reduce Energy Consumption, Case Study of Saadat Abad Building

Before the modern era, cities were built on a scale that did not change the environmental balance significantly. With the expansion of population and the expansion of cities and the conversion of settlements into big cities and metropolises, new conditions have emerged which show that cities today make their own climates. The new climates created in these areas are completely different from the...

Effects of urban compactness on the building energy performance in Mediterranean climate

This work explores the double effect of urban compactness on building energy performance in a Mediterranean climate, namely the increase of urban heat island (UHI) intensity and the decrease of solar radiation availability on building façades. The energy demand of a test apartment has been calculated under varying conditions of UHI intensity and solar radiation for different urban textures. Res...

Energy strategies and efficiency.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 325 14 AUGUST 2009 785 COVER Pulsars in our Galaxy newly discovered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched in June 2008. The objects emit broad gamma-ray beams that have enabled Fermi to locate a never-before-seen population. Fermi has also seen pulsars with millisecond periods and has detected at least one globular cluster (center left). See the Researc...