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Globinar 2.0 | 10 April 2021 Roberto di Giulio. (2021, April). Capacity Building & Networking.

The building sector has been identified as one of the key sectors to achieve the 20/20/20 targets of the European Union in consideration to the fact that buildings count for 40% of the EU’s energy consumption, 36% of its CO2 emissions and 55% of its electricity consumption. Ninety percent of the existing building stock in Europe was built before 1990 and have reached the age for renovation. Therefor exist an urgent need for a significant improvement of energy efficiency through ‘Deep renovation’. Deep renovation is defined by the EU-Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU as refurbishment technical interventions which should address cost-effective deep renovations reducing the final energy consumption of a building by a significant percentage compared with the pre-renovation levels leading to a very high energy performance. The paper introduces the innovative methodology (4M - Mapping, Modelling, Making and Monitoring) and techniques regarding the ‘Deep renovation’ of the European building stock promoted by the P2ENDURE project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program grant number 723391. The project goal is to apply and monitor, on specific demo-cases, cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency renovating strategies proposing Plug-and-Play (PnP) solutions in consideration of fast on-site assembly, user-friendliness, reduction of construction errors. The prefab PnP technologies proposed regards building and MEP-HVAC components and are supported by Building Information Modelling to overcome the main barriers of deep renovation inside the building process.

The success of the strategies for safeguarding, preserving and maintaining the precious assets of the huge European Cultural Heritage still represents a challenge that many countries tackle with limited or inadequate actions or systems, despite the fact that the international community is now aware of the serious risks endangering its heritage. The nature of this fragile context requires the knowledge of data and information other than the technical and construction characteristics of buildings. The paper describes an innovative management tool for inspection and maintenance of historical and monumental buildings, developed within the Horizon 2020 European research project INCEPTION (Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling)., TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 20 (2020): Time and architecture

Deep renovation is the term coined by the Energy Efficiency Directive of the EC (2012/27) for defining economically advantageous building renovation interventions that make possible the reduction of the energy consumption of a building by at least 60% compared to the condition prior to the refurbishment. In this field, the P2ENDURE research project, funded by the European Union under H2020 programme, is aimed at developing refurbishment strategies, functional transformation and improvement of the energy performance of existing buildings based on the use of Plug-and-Play technologies and components tested on 10 case studies according to a procedure called 4M (Mapping/Modelling/Making/Monitoring)., TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 18 (2019): Detailed Design

This contribution describes opportunities and advantages related to the use of the “scenarios” approach in the design of resilient anthropic systems. A methodology that aims to support, from the early stages of the decision-making process, strategical choices concerning complex works and areas by duration, size and interactions with the environment. A model that, given the current situation of extreme economic and environmental uncertainty, could represent an effective collaboration protocol between decision makers, designers and experts of various disciplines, especially in the development of large-scale infrastructure systems and human settlements that involve extended planning and implementation timings, requiring a high degree of programmed adaptability., TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience