EBC Annex 76 SHC Task 59 Renovating-Historic-Buildings-Flyer

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Project structure Organizational details

The project consists of four work packages: Full project title


Deep Renovation of Historic Buildings Towards Lowest
> Knowledge base
Possible Energy Demand and CO2 Emission (NZEB)
led by e7 Energy Markets Analysis, Austria
Collect best practice case studies following the Project sponsor
approach of IEA SHC Task 37 on Advanced Housing International Energy Agency’s
Renovation with Solar & Conservation and IEA SHC > Solar Heating & Cooling Programme (SHC) Task 59
Task 47 on Solar Renovation of Non-Residential > Energy in Buildings and Communities (ECB) Annex 76
Buildings and promote them online
Duration
September 2017 – February 2021
> Multidisciplinary planning process
led by Uppsala University, Sweden Operating Agent
Investigate how existing guidelines for improving Alexandra Troi
the energy performance of historic buildings can be Institute for Renewable Energy
enhanced and complemented in order to better meet EURAC Research
the needs of the end user by providing an integrated Via Volta 13/A
design platform I-39100 Bolzano / Bozen
Italy
> Conservation compatible retrofit solutions
led by University of Innsbruck, Austria
Identify, from case studies, replicable retrofit
measures, including those currently under Connect with us
development, and assess technical retrofit measures
from both energy performance and conservation http://task59.iea-shc.org
perspectives http://annex76.iea-ebc.org
[email protected]
> Knowledge transfer and dissemination

Image © Trimmel Wall Architects


led by Historic Environment Scotland, www.facebook.com/HistoricNZEB
United Kingdom www.twitter.com/HistoricNZEB
Strongly building on the other three packages, the
knowledge created in this project will be disseminated
to a variety of the relevant stakeholders, including
building architects and building surveyors, owners
and users, real estate developers and construction
contractors, heritage professionals and
policymakers.
Image © Valentina Carì
Historic buildings constitute a Conventional energy-saving
considerable part of our building measures are often not compatible
stock and are the trademark of with preserving the special
numerous cities. character of historic buildings.
Historic buildings will, however, only survive if kept Nevertheless, the energy performance of historic
in use. To save this heritage for future generations, buildings can be improved considerably if the right
we need to find conservation compatible, renovation package of retrofit measures is identified. This can
approaches and measures that preserve the heritage include the use of solar energy to heat and cool
values of these buildings while improving user comfort, historic buildings. Examples of energy-related
lowering energy bills and minimizing environmental renovations show that, for many historic buildings,
impacts. the energy demand can be reduced by 75% or more
while preserving the buildings’ heritage values.

Now is the time to identify


and promote good renovation Well-planned renovations will
approaches. allow historic buildings to move
towards zero energy.

Image © Florian Berger


Project objectives
> Develop a knowledge base on how to renovate
historic buildings towards their lowest possible
energy demand

> Identify their energy saving potential

> Assess multidisciplinary procedures to maintain


their heritage value while improving the energy
performance

> Advance the existing support tools used in integrated


design processes

> Identify the potential for solar energy use and


Image © Uppsala University

promote associated best practices

> Transfer the knowledge gathered to the stakeholders


involved in the renovation process

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