Abstract Sustainability is the goal pursued by societies worldwide. Existing buildings have had their share of those issues, specifically healthcare buildings, as most governments encourage green new construction and neglect existing buildings. Additionally, benefits in preserving environment, its resources reducing energy global warming crises. The research objective to achieve a high-level pe...

The European goal to reach carbon neutrality in 2050 has further put the focus on construction sector, which is responsible for great impacts environment, and new sustainable solutions renovate existing building stock are currently under development. In this paper, AdESA (Adeguamento Energetico Sismico ed Architettonico, Italian) system, a holistic retrofit technique integrated renovation of bu...

Buildings are the focus of European (EU) policies aimed at a sustainable and competitive low-carbon economy by 2020. Reducing energy consumption of existing buildings and achieving nearly zero energy buildings (NZEBs) are the core of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and the recast of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD). To comply with these requirements, Member States have ...