Balancing Performance, Cost, and Maintenance: Designing Building Envelopes for Affordable Housing
Chair: Gianpiero Evola, University of Catania, Italy
Optimization through life cycle costs analysis - Social housing retrofitting in Italy
- Energy analysis
- Retrofit of historic and recent social housing buildings
- Life cycle costing
Angela Poletti, Dep. of Architecture and Urban Study, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Retrofitting for social housing: A sustainable solution towards zero energy buildings
- Energy retrofit of multi-storey apartment blocks
- Versatile modular façade system including PV panels
- Primary energy balance in different climatic conditions
Gianpiero Evola, Dep. of Industrial Engineering, University of Catania, Italy
A cost approach to evaluate sustainable building design for a social housing complex
- Controversies around sustainability certification in buildings
- Sustainability certification of a retrofitted social housing case study
- Trade-off and synergies between construction costs and sustainability certification
Antonio Talarico, Interuniversity Dep. of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Industrialised renovation strategies and prefabrication – Cost optimisation and added values in focus
- Implementation of industrialised methods for façade renovation
- Tested strategies – cost optimisation and sustainability
- Identifying the added value of holistic strategies
Sonja Geier, Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts, Switzerland
17:45 End of Conference