Abstract
The control and improvement of energy-environmental quality in buildings are responsible for almost 40% of the emissions related to energy and processes, and are essential to achieve the commitment of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) United Nations (UN). This paper provides a support tool to planners and administrators of the territory for the identification of interventions aimed at the energy requalification of the existing Italian building heritage, mainly for residential use. The purpose of this tool is to reduce energy consumption by intervening on the building envelope with specific solutions that are identified through a matrix resulting from the study. In the first part of the study, an analysis was carried out on various factors such as the existing residential building, the building and construction types and the materials of the envelope typical of each construction period, which are critical for energy efficiency issues. In the second part of the study, the analysis of the state of the art of the insulating materials existing on the international and national market was carried out, in order to standardize the efficiency interventions of the building envelope. By exploiting the potential of the proposed matrix, and integrating it with Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, it would be possible to create a database containing information regarding the characteristics of the building envelope of the residential building stock and to identify a set of insulation interventions more suited to each specific case near Rome, Italy.
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IntroductionPublisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.license.Climate change is a major global phenomenon today
Attention to the environment has grown more and more, in particular to global warming, which has caused enormous quantities of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere, deriving from anthropogenic activities that question natural balances
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Climate change is a major global phenomenon today. Attention to the environment has grown more and more, in particular to global warming, which has caused enormous quantities of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere, deriving from anthropogenic activities that question natural balances. According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the energy supply sector is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions [1], which is one of the issues that must be addressed and solved in the short term to limit the damage caused to ecosystem and human health. Global residential energy demand has steadily increased over the past decades [2]
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