Integrative Approach to Comprehensive Building Renovations

✍ Scribed by Vesna Žegarac Leskovar, Miroslav Premrov

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 164
• Series: Green Energy and Technology
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a new approach to building renovation, combining aspects of various professional disciplines, integrating green building design, structural stability, and energy efficiency. It draws attention to several often-overlooked qualities of buildings that should be comprehensively integrated into the context of building renovation.
The book presents an overview of the most important renovation approaches according to their scope, intensity, and priorities. Combining basic theoretical knowledge and the authors’ scientific research it emphasizes the importance of simultaneous consideration of energy efficiency and structural stability in building renovation processes. It simultaneously analyses the effects of various renovation steps related to the required level of energy efficiency, while it also proposes the options of building extension with timber-glass upgrade modules as the solution to a shortage of usable floor areas occurring in large cities.
This book offers building designers and decision makers a tool for predicting energy savings in building renovation processes and provides useful guidelines for architects, city developers and students studying architecture and civil engineering. Additionally, it demonstrates how specific innovations, e.g., building extensions with timber-glass modules, can assist building industry companies in the planning and development of their future production.
The main aim of the current book is to expose various approaches to the renovation of existing buildings and to combine practical experience with existing research, in order to disseminate knowledge and raise awareness on the importance of integrative and interdisciplinary solutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Introduction (Vesna Žegarac Leskovar, Miroslav Premrov)....Pages 1-5
Classification of Renovation Approaches (Vesna Žegarac Leskovar, Miroslav Premrov)....Pages 7-33
Renovation Process Methodology (Miroslav Premrov, Vesna Žegarac Leskovar)....Pages 35-67
Scientific Research Related to Building Renovation (Maja Lešnik, Vesna Žegarac Leskovar, Miroslav Premrov)....Pages 69-159

✦ Subjects

Energy; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings; Building Construction and Design; Energy Efficiency; Structural Materials; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning