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Nature-based solutions (NBS) offer multiple solutions to urban challenges simultaneously, but realising funding for NBS remains a challenge. When the concept of NBS for societal challenges was first defined by the EC in 2017, financing was recognised as one of the major challenges to its mainstreaming. The complexity of NBS finance has its origin in the multiple benefits/stakeholders involved, which obscures the argument for both public and private sector investment. Since 2017, subsequent waves of EU research- and innovation-funded projects have substantially contributed to the knowledge base of funding and business models for NBS, particularly in the urban context. Collaborating and sharing knowledge through an EU Task Force, this first set of EU projects laid important knowledge foundations, reviewing existing literature, and compiling empirical evidence of different financing approaches and the business models that underpinned them. The second set of EU innovation actions advanced this knowledge base, developing and testing new implementation models, business model tools, and approaches. This paper presents the findings of these projects from a business model perspective to improve our understanding of the value propositions of NBS to support their mainstreaming.
Beatriz Mayor; Helen Toxopeus; Siobhan McQuaid; Edoardo Croci; Benedetta Lucchitta; Suhana Reddy; Aitziber Egusquiza; Monica Altamirano; Tamara Trumbic; Andreas Tuerk; Gemma García; Efrén Feliu; Cosima Malandrino; Joanne Schante; Anne Jensen; Elena López Gunn. State of the Art and Latest Advances in Exploring Business Models for Nature-Based Solutions. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7413 .
AMA StyleBeatriz Mayor, Helen Toxopeus, Siobhan McQuaid, Edoardo Croci, Benedetta Lucchitta, Suhana Reddy, Aitziber Egusquiza, Monica Altamirano, Tamara Trumbic, Andreas Tuerk, Gemma García, Efrén Feliu, Cosima Malandrino, Joanne Schante, Anne Jensen, Elena López Gunn. State of the Art and Latest Advances in Exploring Business Models for Nature-Based Solutions. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7413.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBeatriz Mayor; Helen Toxopeus; Siobhan McQuaid; Edoardo Croci; Benedetta Lucchitta; Suhana Reddy; Aitziber Egusquiza; Monica Altamirano; Tamara Trumbic; Andreas Tuerk; Gemma García; Efrén Feliu; Cosima Malandrino; Joanne Schante; Anne Jensen; Elena López Gunn. 2021. "State of the Art and Latest Advances in Exploring Business Models for Nature-Based Solutions." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7413.
This paper presents the result of the analysis of the data gathered from 20 Role Models (RM) case studies regarding their successful heritage-led rural regeneration models. For the study and comparison of the narratives of these Role Models two tools were used: the Community Capitals Framework, which studied the transference of capitals in each process and the identification of six Systemic Innovation Areas that allow this capital transference. A multilevel repository of best practices has been developed allowing the identification of common features, mechanisms for mobilisation of capitals and required resources that will facilitate the replication in other rural areas. The results of this work support the acknowledgement of the contribution of culture, together with cultural and natural heritage, to economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability in rural areas reinforcing the role of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development.
Aitziber Egusquiza; Mikel Zubiaga; Alessandra Gandini; Claudia de Luca; Simona Tondelli. Systemic Innovation Areas for Heritage-Led Rural Regeneration: A Multilevel Repository of Best Practices. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5069 .
AMA StyleAitziber Egusquiza, Mikel Zubiaga, Alessandra Gandini, Claudia de Luca, Simona Tondelli. Systemic Innovation Areas for Heritage-Led Rural Regeneration: A Multilevel Repository of Best Practices. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5069.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAitziber Egusquiza; Mikel Zubiaga; Alessandra Gandini; Claudia de Luca; Simona Tondelli. 2021. "Systemic Innovation Areas for Heritage-Led Rural Regeneration: A Multilevel Repository of Best Practices." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5069.
Historic, listed, or unlisted, buildings account for 30% of the European building stock. Since they are complex systems of cultural, architectural, and identity value, they need particular attention to ensure that they are preserved, used, and managed over time in a sustainable way. This implies a demand for retrofit solutions able to improve indoor thermal conditions while reducing the use of energy sources and preserving the heritage significance. Often, however, the choice and implementation of retrofit solutions in historic buildings is limited by socio-technical barriers (regulations, lack of knowledge on the hygrothermal behaviour of built heritage, economic viability, etc.). This paper presents the approach devised in the IEA-SHC Task 59 project (Renovating Historic Buildings Towards Zero Energy) to support decision makers in selecting retrofit solutions, in accordance with the provision of the EN 16883:2017 standard. In particular, the method followed by the project partners to gather and assess compatible solutions for historic buildings retrofitting is presented. It focuses on best practices for walls, windows, HVAC systems, and solar technologies. This work demonstrates that well-balanced retrofit solutions can exist and can be evaluated case-by-case through detailed assessment criteria. As a main result, the paper encourages decision makers to opt for tailored energy retrofit to solve the conflict between conservation and energy performance requirements.
Alessia Buda; Ernst de Place Hansen; Alexander Rieser; Emanuela Giancola; Valeria Pracchi; Sara Mauri; Valentina Marincioni; Virginia Gori; Kalliopi Fouseki; Cristina Polo López; Alessandro Lo Faro; Aitziber Egusquiza; Franziska Haas; Eleonora Leonardi; Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa. Conservation-Compatible Retrofit Solutions in Historic Buildings: An Integrated Approach. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2927 .
AMA StyleAlessia Buda, Ernst de Place Hansen, Alexander Rieser, Emanuela Giancola, Valeria Pracchi, Sara Mauri, Valentina Marincioni, Virginia Gori, Kalliopi Fouseki, Cristina Polo López, Alessandro Lo Faro, Aitziber Egusquiza, Franziska Haas, Eleonora Leonardi, Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa. Conservation-Compatible Retrofit Solutions in Historic Buildings: An Integrated Approach. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2927.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessia Buda; Ernst de Place Hansen; Alexander Rieser; Emanuela Giancola; Valeria Pracchi; Sara Mauri; Valentina Marincioni; Virginia Gori; Kalliopi Fouseki; Cristina Polo López; Alessandro Lo Faro; Aitziber Egusquiza; Franziska Haas; Eleonora Leonardi; Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa. 2021. "Conservation-Compatible Retrofit Solutions in Historic Buildings: An Integrated Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2927.
Buildings of heritage significance due to their historical, architectural, or cultural value, here called historic buildings, constitute a large proportion of the building stock in many countries around the world. Improving the performance of such buildings is necessary to lower the carbon emissions of the stock, which generates around 40% of the overall emissions worldwide. In historic buildings, it is estimated that heat loss through external walls contributes significantly to the overall energy consumption, and is associated with poor thermal comfort and indoor air quality. Measures to improve the performance of walls of historic buildings require a balance between energy performance, indoor environmental quality, heritage significance, and technical compatibility. Appropriate wall measures are available, but the correct selection and implementation require an integrated process throughout assessment (planning), design, construction, and use. Despite the available knowledge, decision-makers often have limited access to robust information on tested retrofit measures, hindering the implementation of deep renovation. This paper provides an evidence-based approach on the steps required during assessment, design, and construction, and after retrofitting through a literature review. Moreover, it provides a review of possible measures for wall retrofit within the deep renovation of historic buildings, including their advantages and disadvantages and the required considerations based on context.
Valentina Marincioni; Virginia Gori; Ernst de Place Hansen; Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa; Sara Mauri; Emanuela Giancola; Aitziber Egusquiza; Alessia Buda; Eleonora Leonardi; Alexander Rieser. How Can Scientific Literature Support Decision-Making in the Renovation of Historic Buildings? An Evidence-Based Approach for Improving the Performance of Walls. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2266 .
AMA StyleValentina Marincioni, Virginia Gori, Ernst de Place Hansen, Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa, Sara Mauri, Emanuela Giancola, Aitziber Egusquiza, Alessia Buda, Eleonora Leonardi, Alexander Rieser. How Can Scientific Literature Support Decision-Making in the Renovation of Historic Buildings? An Evidence-Based Approach for Improving the Performance of Walls. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2266.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Marincioni; Virginia Gori; Ernst de Place Hansen; Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa; Sara Mauri; Emanuela Giancola; Aitziber Egusquiza; Alessia Buda; Eleonora Leonardi; Alexander Rieser. 2021. "How Can Scientific Literature Support Decision-Making in the Renovation of Historic Buildings? An Evidence-Based Approach for Improving the Performance of Walls." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2266.
In order to foster informed transactions, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive has made it mandatory to get an Energy Performance Certificate in the marketing of the Communitarian Real Estate. Due to energy savings and environmental preservation, it is expected that efficient buildings do receive an increased willingness to pay. The evidence coming from a number of statistical studies has confirmed the existence of such premium. Nevertheless, such finding is contradictory in relation to the conclusions of opinion-based studies. This paper seeks to study whether energy efficiency drives market price and the marketing of homes in Spain. In doing so, a survey applied to realtors across the country has been implemented. The results are in line with other opinion-based studies pointing out that energy performance has a negligible impact on the marketing of homes. Furthermore, real estate agents suggest that companion policies in the sphere of subsidies and fiscal exceptions are needed in order to bring energy efficiency to the first line of elicitation attributes in the residential market.
Carlos Marmolejo-Duarte; Silvia Spairani; Consuelo Del Moral; Luis Delgado; Aitziber Egusquiza; Chen Ai. How Relevant is Energy Efficiency in The Marketing of Homes? Evidence from Real Estate Agents in Spain. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2019, 603, 032053 .
AMA StyleCarlos Marmolejo-Duarte, Silvia Spairani, Consuelo Del Moral, Luis Delgado, Aitziber Egusquiza, Chen Ai. How Relevant is Energy Efficiency in The Marketing of Homes? Evidence from Real Estate Agents in Spain. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2019; 603 (3):032053.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarlos Marmolejo-Duarte; Silvia Spairani; Consuelo Del Moral; Luis Delgado; Aitziber Egusquiza; Chen Ai. 2019. "How Relevant is Energy Efficiency in The Marketing of Homes? Evidence from Real Estate Agents in Spain." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 603, no. 3: 032053.
The implementation of urban Nature Based Solutions (NBS) projects is deeply determined by the novelty of the concept. Its innovation is both an opportunity and a challenge: as a new concept, it generates uncertainty due to lack of technical and operational preparedness, but it also allows to deploy innovative approaches, new ways to address old problems and more inclusive practices. Nature4Cities project has systematically conceptualized the barriers and drivers on NBS projects implementation by a review of the state of the art. To see how these barriers can be overcome by governance strategies, different urban and environmental governance models have been mapped and characterized to assess their suitability for different NBS projects. Five clusters have been identified where models are grouped according to the involved actors, their position in the spectrum from high to low government involvement and their level of participation. This theorical model has been applied to real cases to check the incidence of the different clusters. Results show that urban and environmental governance is a map where the different models coexist in different degrees regarding some key axes such as level of innovation, polycentric vs. monocentric, involved sectors, level of participation and scale. Collaborative, multisector, polycentric and adaptive governance models address significant number of previously identified cross-domain barriers showing their suitability. The work presented in this paper can be the basis to define new institutional and governance arrangements that will foster multi-stakeholder involvement, citizens' engagement, leveraging both public and private funding of NBS in cities
A Egusquiza; M Cortese; D Perfido. Mapping of innovative governance models to overcome barriers for nature based urban regeneration. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 2019, 323, 012081 .
AMA StyleA Egusquiza, M Cortese, D Perfido. Mapping of innovative governance models to overcome barriers for nature based urban regeneration. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 2019; 323 (1):012081.
Chicago/Turabian StyleA Egusquiza; M Cortese; D Perfido. 2019. "Mapping of innovative governance models to overcome barriers for nature based urban regeneration." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 323, no. 1: 012081.
One of the main current challenges of European cities is to become energy self-sufficient entities. One of the vectors for this challenge is to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings and to promote the generation of renewable energies in the urban environment. The article describes a tool based on GIS-3D technologies to support the identification of the energy rehabilitation potential of neighbourhoods based on the introduction of renewable energies. The platform is based on a urban 3D model that collects the geometry of buildings, together with relevant information for the identification of rehabilitation opportunities (e.g. surfaces, heights, orientations and slopes). The project includes the generation of a cloud-based repository, which incorporates active and passive innovative solutions with metrics that allow the comparison of the solutions and the applicability of them to the real environment. The identification of rehabilitation opportunities combines information resulting from the diagnosis of the current energy performance of the district's buildings with the potential for renewable generation in the area. A multicriteria analysis process facilitates the identification of the most appropriate rehabilitation solutions for the analysed environment based on different criteria as energy, cost or applicability. The result can be visualized through a web tool that combines 2D and 3D information, with comparative information in a quantitative and geo-referenced manner. The flexibility of the architecture allows the application of the same approach to different urban challenges as the application of energy conservation measures to protected historic urban areas.
J L Izkara; Aitziber Egusquiza; A Villanueva. GIS-3D Platform to Help Decision Making for Energy Rehabilitation in Urban Environments. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 2019, 290, 012122 .
AMA StyleJ L Izkara, Aitziber Egusquiza, A Villanueva. GIS-3D Platform to Help Decision Making for Energy Rehabilitation in Urban Environments. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 2019; 290 (1):012122.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJ L Izkara; Aitziber Egusquiza; A Villanueva. 2019. "GIS-3D Platform to Help Decision Making for Energy Rehabilitation in Urban Environments." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 290, no. 1: 012122.
Historic sites are threatened by diverse weather patterns, mainly due to global climate change, such as sea-level rise and increasing frequency of storms and other extreme precipitation events. As climate change is becoming an increasing urban problem, heritage located in this context is considered as a sensitive and vulnerable element of the city. Adaptation should be oriented to a sustainable transformation of the historic city, leading to more resilient and safe environments. Risk-based approaches should incorporate an assessment of sensitiveness and capacity to adapt to these hazards. Vulnerability is often assessed on a large scale (e.g. regional, local) and buildings are not considered as part of the urban environment, while conservation is often developed on the operational scale of a monument or site. Management of cultural heritage requires therefore for an urban approach, which considers all the elements and buildings as part of the urban environment. Research presented in this paper describes a methodological approach (MIVES - Integrated Value Model for Sustainability Assessment) for vulnerability assessment of historic sites, supported by multilevel indicators (urban, building, element), in order to provide an informed decision-making. The solution proposed in based on an organised and structures decision tree, which provides a comparable and unique vulnerability index on the building level.
Alessandra Gandini; Aitziber Egusquiza; Leire Garmendia; José-Tomás San-José. Vulnerability assessment of cultural heritage sites towards flooding events. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2018, 364, 012028 .
AMA StyleAlessandra Gandini, Aitziber Egusquiza, Leire Garmendia, José-Tomás San-José. Vulnerability assessment of cultural heritage sites towards flooding events. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2018; 364 (1):012028.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessandra Gandini; Aitziber Egusquiza; Leire Garmendia; José-Tomás San-José. 2018. "Vulnerability assessment of cultural heritage sites towards flooding events." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 364, no. 1: 012028.
Aitziber Egusquiza; Iñaki Prieto; Jose Luis Izkara; Rubén Béjar. Multi-scale urban data models for early-stage suitability assessment of energy conservation measures in historic urban areas. Energy and Buildings 2018, 164, 87 -98.
AMA StyleAitziber Egusquiza, Iñaki Prieto, Jose Luis Izkara, Rubén Béjar. Multi-scale urban data models for early-stage suitability assessment of energy conservation measures in historic urban areas. Energy and Buildings. 2018; 164 ():87-98.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAitziber Egusquiza; Iñaki Prieto; Jose Luis Izkara; Rubén Béjar. 2018. "Multi-scale urban data models for early-stage suitability assessment of energy conservation measures in historic urban areas." Energy and Buildings 164, no. : 87-98.
Historic urban areas are complex and inter-reliant systems, vulnerable to natural hazards. Over the recent years, the increase frequency in extreme precipitation events and sea-level rise, have impacted on a large number of historic areas, growing concern over disaster mitigation related to climate change. Most of the changes in the climatological indicators may have adverse impacts on historic areas, leading to physical, social and cultural consequences and should be included in urban planning practice. The importance of addressing cultural heritage in disaster risk has also been included in The Sendai Framework, considering the dimensions of vulnerability, adaptive capacity and exposure through systematic evaluation. Urban planning decisions involve an understanding of complex interactions between different aspects of the city, in its constructive, social, economic, environmental and cultural system. The analysis of these interactions requires a systemic approach as the components operate on different spatial and temporal scales and generate a large amount of data. This information can be used to determine the vulnerability of historic areas by assessing it at the building level, through the creation of typologies representing the building stock, often characterized by similarities and common constructive elements. The comprehension of the information can be supported and homogenized by a multi-scale urban model, to facilitate the understanding of interactions and the link among the different disciplines involved. This paper describes the methodology proposed for vulnerability mapping in historic urban areas, by using a categorization method supported by an information strategy and a multi-scale urban model.
Alessandra Gandini; I. Prieto; L. Garmendia; J.-T. San-José; Aitziber Egusquiza. ADAPTATION TO FLOODING EVENTS THROUGH VULNERABILITY MAPPING IN HISTORIC URBAN AREAS. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 2018, XLII-3/W4, 221 -226.
AMA StyleAlessandra Gandini, I. Prieto, L. Garmendia, J.-T. San-José, Aitziber Egusquiza. ADAPTATION TO FLOODING EVENTS THROUGH VULNERABILITY MAPPING IN HISTORIC URBAN AREAS. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 2018; XLII-3/W4 ():221-226.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessandra Gandini; I. Prieto; L. Garmendia; J.-T. San-José; Aitziber Egusquiza. 2018. "ADAPTATION TO FLOODING EVENTS THROUGH VULNERABILITY MAPPING IN HISTORIC URBAN AREAS." The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-3/W4, no. : 221-226.
Iñaki Prieto; Jose Luis Izkara; Aitziber Egusquiza. CATEGORIZACIÓN DEL PARQUE EDIFICADO PARA LA REHABILITACIÓN ENERGÉTICA DE DISTRITOS HISTÓRICOS EN BASE A UN MODELO DE CIUDAD 3D. DYNA 2017, 92, 572 -579.
AMA StyleIñaki Prieto, Jose Luis Izkara, Aitziber Egusquiza. CATEGORIZACIÓN DEL PARQUE EDIFICADO PARA LA REHABILITACIÓN ENERGÉTICA DE DISTRITOS HISTÓRICOS EN BASE A UN MODELO DE CIUDAD 3D. DYNA. 2017; 92 (1):572-579.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIñaki Prieto; Jose Luis Izkara; Aitziber Egusquiza. 2017. "CATEGORIZACIÓN DEL PARQUE EDIFICADO PARA LA REHABILITACIÓN ENERGÉTICA DE DISTRITOS HISTÓRICOS EN BASE A UN MODELO DE CIUDAD 3D." DYNA 92, no. 1: 572-579.
The EU FP7 project FASUDIR (Friendly and Affordable Sustainable Urban Districts Retrofitting) supports the mobilization of the building retrofitting market towards 2020-2050 EU-targets through an Integrated Decision Support Tool (IDST), a software based on a new methodology that will help decision makers identify the best energy retrofitting strategy to increase the sustainability of the whole district. Improving the sustainability of urban environments is a interscalar problem, addressed through a multiscalar and multidirectional approach. A comprehensive urban scale strategy considers the working scale, but the measures at building scale have to be coherent with the global objectives at district and city scale. The FASUDIR IDST and methodology interconnect and visualize information across scales, ensuring comprehensive diagnoses and proper implementation of strategies. Due to the complexity of urban sustainability, interscalarity and multiscalarity, first it has been necessary to identify the possible scales of analysis, to capture various themes and to highlight the horizontal and vertical interconnections between different components. Multiscalarity and Interscalarity affect the three phases of the sustainable retrofitting cycle: diagnosis, decision making and management. The identification of the impact of district solutions on buildings (and vice versa) and their compatibility across scales has been addressed through interconnected building and district Key Performance Iindicators (KPIs). The intervention phases at building level generate new information about specific buildings, enabling more accurate decision making at district level. The methodology articulates the structure of the new information and the feedback generated during the process. To allow information interconnection a strategic information management is key. A multiscale information model based on CityGML, a standard data model issued by the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium), will be the baseline structure for all the district-scale information (geometric and semantic) that is necessary for decision making and management, organized into a single interoperable data model that will integrate information from different fields and at different levels of detail. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007- 2013) under grant agreement n̊ 609222.
Giulia Barbano; Aitziber Egusquiza. Interconnection between Scales for Friendly and Affordable Sustainable Urban Districts Retrofitting. Energy Procedia 2015, 78, 1853 -1858.
AMA StyleGiulia Barbano, Aitziber Egusquiza. Interconnection between Scales for Friendly and Affordable Sustainable Urban Districts Retrofitting. Energy Procedia. 2015; 78 ():1853-1858.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiulia Barbano; Aitziber Egusquiza. 2015. "Interconnection between Scales for Friendly and Affordable Sustainable Urban Districts Retrofitting." Energy Procedia 78, no. : 1853-1858.
Aitziber Egusquiza; I Prieto; Ander Romero. Multiscale information management for sustainable districts rehabilitation EFFESUS and FASUDIR projects. eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2014, 303 -308.
AMA StyleAitziber Egusquiza, I Prieto, Ander Romero. Multiscale information management for sustainable districts rehabilitation EFFESUS and FASUDIR projects. eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. 2014; ():303-308.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAitziber Egusquiza; I Prieto; Ander Romero. 2014. "Multiscale information management for sustainable districts rehabilitation EFFESUS and FASUDIR projects." eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction , no. : 303-308.
Georeferenced 3D models represent an increasingly accepted solution for storing and displaying information at urban scale. CityGML, as standard data model for the representation, storage and exchange of 3D city models, represent a very attractive solution which combines 3D geometric and semantic information in a single data model. In this paper we present an approach to visualize semantic and 3D information of historical centers using open standards. Also, three client applications are presented targeting different agents with different needs with the characteristic that all the information is got from an unique extended CityGML data model.
Iñaki Prieto; José Luis Izkara; Aitziber Egusquiza. Architectural heritage 3D and semantic information visualization based on open standards. Virtual Archaeology Review 2013, 4, 70 -75.
AMA StyleIñaki Prieto, José Luis Izkara, Aitziber Egusquiza. Architectural heritage 3D and semantic information visualization based on open standards. Virtual Archaeology Review. 2013; 4 (9):70-75.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIñaki Prieto; José Luis Izkara; Aitziber Egusquiza. 2013. "Architectural heritage 3D and semantic information visualization based on open standards." Virtual Archaeology Review 4, no. 9: 70-75.
The restoration and conservation of heritage buildings in Europe is a highly specialized market, governed by the strict requirements of conservation principles and focused on very specific problems. Therefore, restorers, conservators and architects can hardly find appropriate solutions as the specific knowledge required is not always available on site. In the H-KNOW project an innovative solution has been developed through a networked platform whose conception starts from the creation of a cooperative infrastructure, so called H-KNOW Community followed by the creation of Collaborative Spaces. H-KNOW Community is a long-term strategic cooperative alliance of organisations aimed at offering the necessary conditions (e.g. human, financial, social, infrastructural & organisational) to support the rapid and fluid configuration of Collaborative Spaces. H-KNOW Community has the objective of preparing their members (SME and RTD performers) to be ready to collaborate in potential Collaborative Spaces that will be established when a collaboration (business) opportunity arises. On the other hand, Collaborative Spaces are timely limited, dynamic coalitions of organisations that may be tailored within a community to respond to a single collaboration (business) opportunity, and dissolve once their mission has been accomplished, and whose collaboration is supported through computer networks. For the purpose of modelling all features of H-KNOW Community, at the highest level of abstraction, the H-KNOW methodology was defined and developed according to the ARCON reference model. ARCON (A Reference Model for Collaborative Networks) is a modelling framework that comprehensively and systematically covers all the relevant features of identified H-KNOW networks. A Business Case has been developed which deals with Cultural Heritage restoration knowledge gathering and transferring it into learning content. Fundación Santa Maria de la Real (FSMLR) and TEUSA are two Spanish SMEs very active in the Cultural Heritage (CH) restoration, mainly from the Romanic period. Restoration of such monuments requires a lot of very specific knowledge so TECNALIA was involved as RTD. There is also a large amount of specific experience from restoration of Romanic objects in the whole Mediterranean area therefore an appropriate structuring of the large corpus, was collected from international sources, using the Knowledge Management (KM) services. The knowledge structuring was done aiming at its reuse in the future CH restoration works as a kind of e-Guidelines for Restoration, but also at creation of the content for training and its transfer to the learning content using e-learning (TEL) services.
Aitziber Egusquiza; Jose Luis Izkara. H-KNOW: Advanced infrastructure for knowledge based services for buildings restoring. 2012 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia 2012, 461 -467.
AMA StyleAitziber Egusquiza, Jose Luis Izkara. H-KNOW: Advanced infrastructure for knowledge based services for buildings restoring. 2012 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia. 2012; ():461-467.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAitziber Egusquiza; Jose Luis Izkara. 2012. "H-KNOW: Advanced infrastructure for knowledge based services for buildings restoring." 2012 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia , no. : 461-467.