MAGRINI , Anna

The changes in present world oblige the scientific community working on Cultural Heritage to face the every day more urgent challenges of "sustainability". This concept refers to a very broad horizon, touching various spheres: cultural, economic, social, environmental, before the purely technical and energetic one; the terms deals, in fact,...

The book is divided in two parts: the first part deals with theoretical and methodological issues and the second one describes the results of applied research on a historical monumental building which, because of its size and complexity of the problems involved, may be considered a paradigmatic example. The theoretical and methodological...

Any intervention on the envelope/HVAC system of existing buildings should start from the evaluation of the building's envelope energy-saving options. Typical buildings critical from the energy standpoint are represented by social housings: in this case the energy-saving is not possible without the building's envelope renovation. Their energy...

General guides to support the refurbishment design indicate separately the solutions to common problems such as thermal loss, interstitial condensation, sound transmission, fire safety etc. This paper deals with combined solutions that take into account simultaneously two of these aspects, aiming both at reducing thermal losses and at avoiding...