Solar Energy Technologies in Cultural Heritage
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2024
- Editor: Elena Lucchi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 9 8 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 9 8 8 - 5
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Request a sales quoteSolar Energy Technologies in Cultural Heritage offers a complete overview of solar renewable energy possibilities, developments, innovations, and challenges for cultural heritage applications, bridging the traditional boundary between research, professional practices, and policies, and between arts, architecture, engineering, and social science. This is an essential resource for all those with an interest in solar energy technologies for built environment and particularly cultural heritage, including researchers, scientists, and graduate students, engineers, designers, developers, and policymakers.
Conservation of heritage buildings, particularly in urban settings, has evolved from purely physical preservation to making them functionally relevant for the modern day through redevelopment and repurposing. This opens the opportunity for the integration of active solar energy systems in buildings, towns, and landscapes. This book presents international contributions on the integration of solar renewable energies within cultural heritage, providing detailed coverage of the cultural, legislative, and social framework, design criteria and simulation tools, and innovative materials and technologies, and addressing key challenges.
- Presents current knowledge and innovative technologies for the integration of photovoltaic and solar thermal systems in cultural heritage
- Illustrates approaches and solutions for solving the complex cost-benefit balance between conservation and energy production
- Includes contributions from major experts and scientists in the field that is supported by real experience and practical examples
Academic: Researchers, scientists, and graduate students with an interest in solar energy technologies for built environment and cultural heritage applications, including across the disciplines of solar energy, renewable energy, architecture, construction engineering, urban planning, and electrical engineering. Industry: Engineers, designers, developers, and policy makers involved in construction and supply chain of active solar technologies in the context of cultural heritage and built environment.
Preface: Solar energy technologies in cultural heritage: Is integration possible?
Section 1: Sustainable and energy transition of cultural heritage
1. Climate change and cultural heritage: Mitigation and adaptation strategies
2. Sustainable transition of cultural heritage: Opportunities, risks, and challenges
3. Energy transition of cultural heritage: Opportunities, risks, and challenges
Section 2: Cultural, legislative, and social framework
4. Solar energy and architecture: An historic perspective
5. Legal system overview for the integration of renewable energies in cultural landscapes
6. Social acceptability of solar technologies in built heritage areas
7. Social engagement for solar renewable installations in heritage sites
Section 3: Design criteria, solutions, and experiences
8. Solar design principles for natural and architectural heritage
9. Solar design of new additions on historic buildings
10. Solar heritage architecture: Lessons learnt from international experiences
Section 4: Design and simulation tools
11. Tools for assessing visual impact of solar modules in cultural heritage contexts
12. Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) as a driver for solar panels integration in built heritage
13. Interoperability between Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) and Building Energy Simulation (BES) for designing integrated solar solutions in heritage buildings
14. Analysis of PV Modules Integration Applicability based on GIS 3D-Model
Section 5: Innovative materials and technologies
15. Active solar technologies: conventional and innovative systems
16. Flexible photovoltaics for new scenarios in lightweight architecture
17. Perovskite thermochromic and smart windows
18. Life cycle assessment of photovoltaic systems
Section 1: Sustainable and energy transition of cultural heritage
1. Climate change and cultural heritage: Mitigation and adaptation strategies
2. Sustainable transition of cultural heritage: Opportunities, risks, and challenges
3. Energy transition of cultural heritage: Opportunities, risks, and challenges
Section 2: Cultural, legislative, and social framework
4. Solar energy and architecture: An historic perspective
5. Legal system overview for the integration of renewable energies in cultural landscapes
6. Social acceptability of solar technologies in built heritage areas
7. Social engagement for solar renewable installations in heritage sites
Section 3: Design criteria, solutions, and experiences
8. Solar design principles for natural and architectural heritage
9. Solar design of new additions on historic buildings
10. Solar heritage architecture: Lessons learnt from international experiences
Section 4: Design and simulation tools
11. Tools for assessing visual impact of solar modules in cultural heritage contexts
12. Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) as a driver for solar panels integration in built heritage
13. Interoperability between Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) and Building Energy Simulation (BES) for designing integrated solar solutions in heritage buildings
14. Analysis of PV Modules Integration Applicability based on GIS 3D-Model
Section 5: Innovative materials and technologies
15. Active solar technologies: conventional and innovative systems
16. Flexible photovoltaics for new scenarios in lightweight architecture
17. Perovskite thermochromic and smart windows
18. Life cycle assessment of photovoltaic systems
- No. of pages: 450
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443239892
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Elena Lucchi
Elena Lucchi is a Research Fellow at the Politecnico di Milano, and Senior Researcher, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy. Her research addresses the connections between energy, environment, and architecture, with a focus on energy efficiency of buildings, energy retrofit, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), bioclimatic and environmental design, and preventive conservation of cultural heritage. She has worked extensively on energy efficiency and retrofit of existing and historical buildings, solar energy integration, numerical simulations, on-site and laboratory testing, environmental monitoring, and green rating systems. Dr. Lucchi is coordinating the European Project “BIPV meets history” on the integration of photovoltaic systems in heritage buildings, towns, and landscapes (2019-onwards). She has been involved in several major research projects and participated in IEA Task 59 “Deep renovation of Historic Buildings”, leading sub-task B1.1 on “Energy and Environmental Protocols” (2016-2021). Dr. Lucchi has won several awards and has authored 5 Italian books and approx. 150 scientific publications.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Fellow, Politecnico di Milano, ItalySenior Researcher, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy