Cost-Effective Energy-Efficient Methods for Refurbishment and Retrofitting of Buildings

Materials, Technologies, Optimization, and Case Studies

1st Edition - January 11, 2025
Editors: F. Pacheco-Torgal, Claes-Göran Granqvist, Giuseppe Peter Vanoli, Nicola Bianco, Jarek Kurnitski
Language: English
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Cost-Effective Energy Efficient Methods for Refurbishment and Retrofitting of Buildings: Materials, Technologies, Optimization, and Case Studies provides up-to-date knowledge on this important research field. Divided over three key parts, the book's chapters cover materials and innovative technologies, optimization strategies, and actual case study applications that highlight the impact of different climatic conditions, social factors, and the economic specifications of each retrofit process. Emphasis is placed on cost efficiency, which is key in any energy retrofit process.

Taking into consideration key changes in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive-EPBD and the European Union Green Deal on Refurbishment and Renovation, this book will be a valuable reference resource for materials scientists, architects, civil engineers, and all those working on cost-effective and energy efficient retrofitting and building refurbishment.

F. Pacheco-Torgal

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects.

Affiliations and expertise

C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

Claes-Göran Granqvist

Claes-Göran Granqvist is a Senior Professor of Solid State Physics at the Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden. His research is focused on optical and electrical properties of materials, especially thin films for energy efficiency and solar energy utilization. Professor Granqvist has been a member of the CEI-Europe Faculty since 2002.

Affiliations and expertise

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden

Giuseppe Peter Vanoli

Giuseppe Peter Vanoli is an Associate Professor at Universita degli Studi Del Sannio, Italy with research interests that include energy efficiency in buildings, heating and refrigeration.

Affiliations and expertise

Dipartimento Di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi del Sannio di Benevento - Piazza Guerrazzi, Benevento, Italy

Nicola Bianco

Nicola Bianco has been an Associate Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, in the Facolta’ di Ingegneria dell'Universita’ degli studi di Napoli Federico II, since 2005. He has been coordinator of numerous research projects funded by the Ente Nazionale per l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Ministero dell'Universita’, Regione Campania.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Applied Thermodynamics, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Jarek Kurnitski

Jarek Kurnitski is a Professor in Energy Performance of Buildings and Indoor Climate at Tallinn University of Technology. Since April 2012 Jarek is the leader of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings nZEB research group at TUT. From 2009 to the end of 2012 he was Senior Lead in the Energy Programme for SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund.

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Professor, Department of Structural Design, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

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F. Pacheco-Torgal

Claes-Göran Granqvist

Giuseppe Peter Vanoli

Nicola Bianco

Jarek Kurnitski