Existing buildings with historic and testimonial value represent a significant asset in Italy. The improvement of existing building’s performance, by deep renovation or operational strategies, is also a priority set by the European Community through the recent directives on energy efficiency (2012/27/EU). Recognition of building’s historic value must be an integrated part of a sustainable process aimed at the preservation and enhancement of all the previous expressions of the building. Green Building Council Italia is moving within this cultural context with the main goal, developed through an interdisciplinary working group, of the establishment of a voluntary certification protocol aimed at evaluating the sustainability level of restoration, refurbishment and integration in pre-industrial buildings. This innovative tool is based on the comparison and union of two different cultures: the sustainability criteria of the LEED® protocol and the wealth of knowledge of the restoration world, with the ultimate goal of identification, enhancement and transmission of the cultural heritage to the future generations. The paper presents the development process of the new rating system GBC Historic Building™, its main feature, also considering the contribution and potentiality given by the first registered case study, a building of rural spontaneous housing built in the late nineteenth century in Guarene, in the Province of Cuneo (Italy).
Towards a new sustainability assessment for historic buildings: development of GBC Historic Building
BOARIN, Paola;ZUPPIROLI, Marco
2014
Abstract
Existing buildings with historic and testimonial value represent a significant asset in Italy. The improvement of existing building’s performance, by deep renovation or operational strategies, is also a priority set by the European Community through the recent directives on energy efficiency (2012/27/EU). Recognition of building’s historic value must be an integrated part of a sustainable process aimed at the preservation and enhancement of all the previous expressions of the building. Green Building Council Italia is moving within this cultural context with the main goal, developed through an interdisciplinary working group, of the establishment of a voluntary certification protocol aimed at evaluating the sustainability level of restoration, refurbishment and integration in pre-industrial buildings. This innovative tool is based on the comparison and union of two different cultures: the sustainability criteria of the LEED® protocol and the wealth of knowledge of the restoration world, with the ultimate goal of identification, enhancement and transmission of the cultural heritage to the future generations. The paper presents the development process of the new rating system GBC Historic Building™, its main feature, also considering the contribution and potentiality given by the first registered case study, a building of rural spontaneous housing built in the late nineteenth century in Guarene, in the Province of Cuneo (Italy).I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
