In recent years, energy efficiency and thermal comfort in historic buildings have become
high-interest topics among scholars. Research has demonstrated that retrofitting buildings to …

Energy retrofits have the potential to reduce building energy consumption and carbon
emissions, but face particular challenges when implemented in historic and traditionally …

Energy retrofit and renovation of existing buildings have an effective role in reducing carbon
dioxide emissions and ultimately global warming. Therefore, there is an increasing interest …

Heritage buildings (HBs), which are unique landmarks across the world, have special
cultural significance. However, many of the HBs, in lack of proper maintenance …

This paper aims to evaluate the energy-saving potential, affordability and thermal comfort
performance of various passive building retrofit measures for a historical building (late …

Today, about 35% of global energy consumption and related carbon dioxide emissions are
caused by the construction sector. This paper evaluates and compares the life cycle energy …

Building sector accounts for nearly 30% of global final energy usage, and its energy demand
is expected to keep growing with the increasing population and expanding tertiary industry …

Local and central administrations are often called to properly allocate economic resources
intended for the territorial energy planning, on the basis of the performances achieved by …

This paper presents a multi-criteria assessment approach for a wide range of energy
efficient measures and their combinations applied for a residential building retrofit in …

In the past several decades, global population growth and rapid economic development
have resulted in significant increases in building energy consumption. To reduce green …