The Alpine Museum was my choice, but as museums do, it closed for major refurbishment on my approach.
In the context of the European collaborative project STONECORE [1] twelve partners, both enterprises and public research organizations, from seven countries joined in order to find a new approach for the refurbishment of stones, mortars and plasters used in the construction of historic monuments.
This chapter investigates strategies for approaching the energy refurbishment of historic buildings, by proposing, beyond a general methodology aimed at guaranteeing feasibility of the design, its application to two cases studies in the context of South Italy, in a typical Mediterranean climate according to the Köppen classification.
The current research study presents two possible approaches to energy-efficient refurbishment of the existing energy-inefficient multi-family buildings.
The refurbishment included new east and west approaches, archive provision, rewiring and new lighting, catering facilities, a new chancel, new toilets and revamped exhibitions.
In order to be most effective, refurbishment projects must adopt a whole building approach and think about carbon reduction as an end-to-end process, from engagement with the design team, through to collaboration with the occupier.
In this paper, a preliminiary approach and general criteria for the building refurbishment, in relation to the architectural and historical commitments, are presented.
To assess these issues, the maintainability of the ARIES fusion power core is analyzed and integrated into the early power core design process, which results in a maintainability approach capable of attaining a relatively short refurbishment time.
This means that the design of new settlements, as well as the refurbishment of existing city quarters, requires an interdisciplinary planning approach that takes spatial and mobility planning, energy systems design, building and infrastructure design and the evaluation of ecological impacts into account [24].
This approach can be used for any practice of FPFS wind turbine blade design and refurbishment.
