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Climate Change Impact Assessment and Evaluation of Retrofit Measures of a Representative School in Southern Italy
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6268-7336
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-8229
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-738X
The ongoing climate policies offer good opportunities for school renovation, aiming at minimizing Greenhouse Gases emissions by retrofitting the existing building stock, both residential and not. Moreover, mandatory upgrading of the performance of existing buildings in compliance with energy standards is an increasingly real possibility. For these opportunities to be properly pursued, further studies at the building-level are required to explore the school energy performance not only in the current but also in the future climate, as well as to identify effective retrofit solutions which could improve school resilience to climate change. Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the climate change impact on energy performance of a representative school of the Apulian school building stock. For this purpose, the building was modelled in a Building Performance Simulation (BPS) software, calibrated, and its performance analysed in both the present and future climate scenarios generated through the Future Weather Generator tool, based on the new AR6 Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios. Then, assuming that climate policies require existing buildings to be retrofitted to specific targets, the effectiveness of different retrofit solutions was compared with an energy retrofit in compliance with the reference building required by the Italian law, through a life-cycle cost analysis, in which also the changing climate conditions were taken into account. Finally, the most effective combinations of retrofit measures were evaluated by means of an optimisation problem aimed at maximizing benefits compared with the base case. Surprisingly, from a cost-benefit point of view, the reference building already appeared to be an optimal solution, although from a mere energy perspective, better performance can be achieved.
Climate Change Impact Assessment and Evaluation of Retrofit Measures of a Representative School in Southern Italy
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6268-7336
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-8229
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-738X
The ongoing climate policies offer good opportunities for school renovation, aiming at minimizing Greenhouse Gases emissions by retrofitting the existing building stock, both residential and not. Moreover, mandatory upgrading of the performance of existing buildings in compliance with energy standards is an increasingly real possibility. For these opportunities to be properly pursued, further studies at the building-level are required to explore the school energy performance not only in the current but also in the future climate, as well as to identify effective retrofit solutions which could improve school resilience to climate change. Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the climate change impact on energy performance of a representative school of the Apulian school building stock. For this purpose, the building was modelled in a Building Performance Simulation (BPS) software, calibrated, and its performance analysed in both the present and future climate scenarios generated through the Future Weather Generator tool, based on the new AR6 Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios. Then, assuming that climate policies require existing buildings to be retrofitted to specific targets, the effectiveness of different retrofit solutions was compared with an energy retrofit in compliance with the reference building required by the Italian law, through a life-cycle cost analysis, in which also the changing climate conditions were taken into account. Finally, the most effective combinations of retrofit measures were evaluated by means of an optimisation problem aimed at maximizing benefits compared with the base case. Surprisingly, from a cost-benefit point of view, the reference building already appeared to be an optimal solution, although from a mere energy perspective, better performance can be achieved.
Climate Change Impact Assessment and Evaluation of Retrofit Measures of a Representative School in Southern Italy
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6268-7336
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5571-8229
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-738X
The ongoing climate policies offer good opportunities for school renovation, aiming at minimizing Greenhouse Gases emissions by retrofitting the existing building stock, both residential and not. Moreover, mandatory upgrading of the performance of existing buildings in compliance with energy standards is an increasingly real possibility. For these opportunities to be properly pursued, further studies at the building-level are required to explore the school energy performance not only in the current but also in the future climate, as well as to identify effective retrofit solutions which could improve school resilience to climate change. Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the climate change impact on energy performance of a representative school of the Apulian school building stock. For this purpose, the building was modelled in a Building Performance Simulation (BPS) software, calibrated, and its performance analysed in both the present and future climate scenarios generated through the Future Weather Generator tool, based on the new AR6 Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios. Then, assuming that climate policies require existing buildings to be retrofitted to specific targets, the effectiveness of different retrofit solutions was compared with an energy retrofit in compliance with the reference building required by the Italian law, through a life-cycle cost analysis, in which also the changing climate conditions were taken into account. Finally, the most effective combinations of retrofit measures were evaluated by means of an optimisation problem aimed at maximizing benefits compared with the base case. Surprisingly, from a cost-benefit point of view, the reference building already appeared to be an optimal solution, although from a mere energy perspective, better performance can be achieved.
Climate Change Impact Assessment and Evaluation of Retrofit Measures of a Representative School in Southern Italy
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Corrao, Rossella (editor) / Campisi, Tiziana (editor) / Colajanni, Simona (editor) / Saeli, Manfredi (editor) / Vinci, Calogero (editor) / Campagna, Ludovica Maria (author) / Carlucci, Francesco (author) / Fiorito, Francesco (author)
International Conference of Ar.Tec. (Scientific Society of Architectural Engineering) ; 2024 ; Palermo, Italy
2024-10-27
17 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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