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Energy Performance Database of Building Heritage in the Region of Umbria, Central Italy

Energies (Basel), 2015-07, Vol.8 (7), p.7261-7278 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright MDPI AG 2015 ;ISSN: 1996-1073 ;EISSN: 1996-1073 ;DOI: 10.3390/en8077261

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  • Title:
    Energy Performance Database of Building Heritage in the Region of Umbria, Central Italy
  • Author: Buratti, Cinzia ; Asdrubali, Francesco ; Palladino, Domenico ; Rotili, Antonella
  • Subjects: Buildings ; Construction ; Energy consumption ; energy database ; energy indicators ; Energy management ; energy performance ; energy saving ; Energy use ; greenhouse gas emission ; Indicators ; Methodology ; simulation code
  • Is Part Of: Energies (Basel), 2015-07, Vol.8 (7), p.7261-7278
  • Description: Household energy consumption has been increasing in the last decades; the residential sector is responsible for about 40% of the total final energy use in Europe. Energy efficiency measures can both reduce energy needs of buildings and energy-related CO2 emissions. For this reason, in recent years, the European Union has been making efforts to enhance energy saving in buildings by introducing various policies and strategies; in this context, a common methodology was developed to assess and to certify energy performance of buildings. The positive effects obtained by energy efficiency measures need to be verified, but measuring and monitoring building energy performance is time consuming and financially demanding. Alternatively, energy efficiency can also be evaluated by specific indicators based on energy consumption. In this work, a methodology to investigate the level of energy efficiency reached in the Umbria Region (Central Italy) is described, based on data collected by energy certificates. In fact, energy certificates, which are the outcomes of simulation models, represent a useful and available tool to collect data related to the energy use of dwellings. A database of building energy performance was developed, in which about 6500 energy certificates of residential buildings supplied by Umbria region were inserted. On the basis of this data collection, average energy and CO2 indicators related to the building heritage in Umbria were estimated and compared to national and international indicators derived from official sources. Results showed that the adopted methodology in this work can be an alternative method for the evaluation of energy indicators; in fact, the ones calculated considering simulation data were similar to the ones reported in national and international sources. This allowed to validate the adopted methodology and the efficiency of European policies.
  • Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1996-1073
    EISSN: 1996-1073
    DOI: 10.3390/en8077261
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