Sustainable Renovation of Buildings

Building Information Modelling

verfasst von: Pilar Mercader-Moyano, Manuel Ramos Martín

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : SpringerBriefs in Geography

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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Über dieses Buch

The book provides a complete vision about Spanish sustainable renovation of buildings situation at this moment, analysing legal and technological context and opportunities that economic stimulus —by means of direct aids— and the use of BIM methodologies offers a standardization of high scale interventions.

Nowadays, BIM models let us integrate multiple quantitative parameters that can agile the information to interchange between stakeholders. Using this potential to standardize protocols of interventions and share knowledge is necessary to face a high scale intervention that our cities need.

Climatic Emergency and socioeconomic crisis caused by recent events —COVID-19 and hydrocarbons crisis— are the two principal struggles we face as society. European Politics, embodied by National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) developed by each region give the way to the green transition of different productive sectors.

Our building stock is responsible for approximately 36% of the CO2 emissions in the European Union. For this reason, these policies focus a large part of their efforts on economically incentivizing a new development model for the building sector that is committed to the large-scale renovation of the existing real estate stock and that, through the reduction of energy demand and of emissions, manage to reduce the environmental impact of these.

Next Generation EU is the new recovery instrument that aims to mobilize investments towards strategic sectors for the reorientation of the production model that, among other measures, contributes to decarbonization through the promotion of energy efficiency and the deployment of renewable energies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Sustainable Renovation of Buildings and Methodologies to Quantify Environmental and Economic Impact

Abstract

Sustainability implies to understand our development as society far away from the momentary, the opportune and the superficial, considering the main idea that humans occupy a decentered position, instead of an empowered from natural resources position. IPCC partials reports belong to the sixth cycle of assessment that will publish on 2022 September alerts about the necessity of adopting actions immediately to ensure a livable future, pointing to cities as hotspots of impacts and risks, but a crucial part of the solution AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change. Even a narrowing window for action, urbanism, architecture, and construction—as part of a strategy sector responsible of 40% of total GHG emissions to the atmosphere—develop a key role between humanity and nature. Hence, environmental impact reduction of these activities must be a priority to rebalance our ecosystems. We explain in this chapter the objective of different strategies and scales; methods to quantify environmental and economic impacts, and we explore the opportunities of building information modelling to support different way to assessing sustainability.

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Chapter 2. Spanish Regulations and European Standardization: Driving Transformation

Abstract

We must distinguish differences between standardization and regulations. Standardization responds to the objective of drawing up technical specifications (standards) that are used on a voluntary basis and with the aim of demonstrating the safety and reliability of certain products and activities—according to AENOR definition; regulations provide legal rules that regulate this activity. This in no way implies that a standard cannot be made legally binding, since means such as legislating in accordance with these standards or referring to them through existing legal provisions are enabled. In the following lines, we will compile the mandatory norms for building regeneration and the voluntary standards, highlighting the potential of renovation and of the comprehensive management of building renovation construction processes.

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Chapter 3. Methods

Abstract

A Comprehensive Sustainable Assessment of Thermal Envelope Renovation Project (TERP) and building design options (DO) share a frame method. We need to define system’s limits for each scenario depending on the sustainable item to assess. We explain in the following lines a proposal method to integrate sustainable building principles from different standards into building energy retrofitting processes through quantitative and qualitative models that are integrated into a BIM interface.

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Chapter 4. Method Application

Abstract

The application of the method to a building in the Mediterranean city of Malaga allows a series of results to be obtained which are included in this section with the aim of obtaining a series of conclusions which are set out at the end of the section.

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Backmatter

Titel: Sustainable Renovation of Buildings
verfasst von: Pilar Mercader-Moyano
Manuel Ramos Martín
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-15143-9
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-15142-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15143-9