The renovation of the EU existing buildings to make them more energy-efficient and less carbon intensive over their life cycle assumes a key-role towards the climate-neutrality by 2050. The EU existing buildings, mainly located in seismic-prone regions, also suffer from seismic vulnerability leading to potential detrimental social, economic, and environmental impacts in case of an earthquake. This report introduces a simplified method for the assessment of the combined seismic and energy retrofit of buildings, along with their environmental performance, in a life-cycle perspective by achieving a global assessment result in economic terms. The development of a user-friendly method, exploiting a simplified common language (i.e. monetary units), to assess the potential improvements of a combined renovation project is essential to ease and speed up the knowledge of benefits that different stakeholders, e.g. owners, industry, policy makers, can gain by combining seismic and energy retrofit technologies, thus overcoming renovation barriers (e.g. intervention cost, downtime, inhabitants’ relocation, administrative issues). The proposed simplified assessment method considers the Sustainable Structural Design (SSD) methodology as point of reference. The SSD methodology and the simplified method are applied to four case studies referring to EU representative residential and public buildings needing combined seismic and energy retrofit to demonstrate the renovation benefits in economic terms.
ROMANO Elvira;
NEGRO Paolo;
FORMISANO Antonio;
LANDOLFO Raffaele;
MENNA Costantino;
PROTA Andrea;
HAJEK Petr;
2023-09-04
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC131412
978-92-68-06762-8 (online),
978-92-68-06763-5 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 31640 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-640-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-31-640-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC131412,
10.2760/651879 (online),
10.2760/0562 (print),
