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Energy and Non-energy-Related Benefits in the Retrofit of the Existing Building Stock

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Affordable and Clean Energy

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Remarkable renovation strategies and projects based on a major transformation of the existing buildings often results in new attractive façades using innovative prefab elements and volumetric additions. The use and the combination of prefabricated elements in unified and integrated systems to achieve the higher performance in terms of energy requirements, structural safety, and social sustainability can be also efficiently connected with the increase of the real estate value of the building and a social attractiveness from the inhabitants. These aspects are extremely important when considering the necessity of creating an innovative and attractive market toward nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEBs) or even positive energy buildings and districts.

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Buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of the energy consumption then 36% of the CO2emissions in the European Union and very similar figures are also found in the United...

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the Master Students in Engineering and Architecture of the department of architecture of the University of Bologna: Alessandra Cinti, Beatrice Battistini and Francesco Mengarelli. Authors also acknowledge architect Frederic Druot for the access to the data for the Tour-Bois-le-Prêtre project and Florian Lichtblau- Lichtblau Architekten, for the data regarding the EU funded project, E2ReBuild project. This paper also contains information that are part of the EU funded projects Pro-GET-onE and ABRACADABRA. Pro-GET-onE has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Innovation action under grant agreement No 723747; the project ABRACADABRA has been funded by the EU under the program H2020, G. A. n. 696126.

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  1. DA-Department of Architecture- School of Engineering and Architecture, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM, Bologna, Italy

    Anastasia Fotopoulou & Annarita Ferrante

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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Fotopoulou, A., Ferrante, A. (2020). Energy and Non-energy-Related Benefits in the Retrofit of the Existing Building Stock. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Affordable and Clean Energy. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71057-0_53-1

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