Location

Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

Event Website

https://event.ceri2020.exordo.com/

Start Date

28-8-2020 3:00 PM

End Date

28-8-2020 4:15 PM

Description

Many of our traditional buildings are disappearing or in danger of being under utilised because they are not comfortable for modern day living and do not meet our present day needs. If a building does not have a use, inevitably it deteriorates and eventually becomes a ruin or gets demolished. It is important to retrofit these buildings, which are part of our identity and can be powerful tourist attractions even though most of them are not listed. Some owners want to apply for retrofitting schemes and grants, but they are rejected because there are no standard solutions to achieve low levels of consumption in these kind of buildings. In addition, most of these buildings are built with traditional techniques such as local stone, historic brick, earth/mud walls, traditional plasters and mortars. This project defines the mains challenges to retrofitting traditional fabric buildings and plans a strategy using energy simulations tools, knowledge in nearly zero energy building (NZEB) retrofitting and restoration of heritage to help the market to retrofit these buildings without prejudice to the historic values and characteristics of the building.

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Aug 28th, 3:00 PM Aug 28th, 4:15 PM

Challenges and Opportunities To Deep Retrofitting Of Traditional Fabric Buildings To Achieve Nearly Zero Energy Building (Nzeb)

Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

Many of our traditional buildings are disappearing or in danger of being under utilised because they are not comfortable for modern day living and do not meet our present day needs. If a building does not have a use, inevitably it deteriorates and eventually becomes a ruin or gets demolished. It is important to retrofit these buildings, which are part of our identity and can be powerful tourist attractions even though most of them are not listed. Some owners want to apply for retrofitting schemes and grants, but they are rejected because there are no standard solutions to achieve low levels of consumption in these kind of buildings. In addition, most of these buildings are built with traditional techniques such as local stone, historic brick, earth/mud walls, traditional plasters and mortars. This project defines the mains challenges to retrofitting traditional fabric buildings and plans a strategy using energy simulations tools, knowledge in nearly zero energy building (NZEB) retrofitting and restoration of heritage to help the market to retrofit these buildings without prejudice to the historic values and characteristics of the building.

https://sword.cit.ie/ceri/2020/14/2