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Context and Methodology

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Contemporary age force the scientific community to face the challenges of sustainability also within the historical context. It is not just a purely investigation on ecological footprint or energy efficiency; it is a crucial issue for human activity and behaviour. The text outlines the new horizon of researches aimed at improving energy efficiency of historical buildings and, in a more general sense, their sustainable management before, during, and after a renovation process. This kind of work should be proceeded by a multidisciplinary group that, in any case, share the same objectives and express the same attitude towards preservation and valorization of the existing architecture and landscape. Particularly interesting is the relation between preservation and technological innovation, in a broader sense and even as a tool to qualify the entire renovation process (system of knowledge, data acquisition, cataloguing, and management).

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Notes

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    Full professor in Restoration and former Director of the Post-graduate School in Architectural Heritage and Landscape of the University of Genoa, he is also the coordinator of the use of BIM for the renovation and restoration process of the Albergo dei Poveri.

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    Francesca d’Ambrosio and Livio De Santoli are full professor in Building Physics at the University of Salerno and Roma La Sapienza. d’Ambrosio is the actual president of AiCARR and De Santoli the former one. He organized the international conference in Rome in 2014.

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    Anna Magrini, full professor in Building Physics, teaches at the Post-graduate School in Architectural Heritage and Landscape of Genoa.

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    Simonetta Acacia and Marta Casanova had a research grant to develop a GIS system for the complex itself. Both of them are Graduate in Architectural Heritage and Landscape.

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