Mitigating seismic risk and energy inefficiency of buildings in the EU

Renovation of buildings represents one of the focal areas of European policies and initiatives to achieve climate-neutrality in the EU by 2050. The European Green Deal provides a unique opportunity to create not only a sustainable built environment but a safe one as well, enhancing its resilience to natural disasters and ensuring a stable environment for risk-proofed investments. The work presented herein summarises the outcome of recent Joint Research Centre activities on the impact of building renovation. Seismic and energy retrofitting were considered both independently and in an integrated way to identify beneficial renovation strategies across EU regions of high priority, and promote a holistic point of view on the topic. Overall, the efficiency of a renovation strategy increases along with its capability to target buildings of specific structural and thermal attributes rather than generic classes (inevitably, at the cost of increased complexity in scenario implementation). The results clearly illustrate that integrated renovation can tackle the multidimensional problem of building renovation.

GKATZOGIAS Konstantinos;  VELJKOVIC Ana;  POHORYLES Daniel;  CROWLEY Helen;  TSIONIS Georgios;  BOURNAS Dionysios; 

2025-03-26

International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE)

JRC135474

3006-5933 (online),   

https://proceedings-wcee.org/search.html?conference=18,    https://proceedings-wcee.org/view.html?id=23454&conference=18WCEE,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135474,