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Prof. Graziano Salvalai
Politecnico di Milano

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Journal article
Published: 19 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Urban Built Environments (UBE) are increasingly prone to SLow-Onset Disasters (SLODs) such as air pollution and heatwaves. The effectiveness of sustainable risk-mitigation solutions for the exposed individuals’ health should be defined by considering the effective scenarios in which emergency conditions can appear. Combining environmental (including climatic) conditions and exposed users’ presence and behaviors is a paramount task to support decision-makers in risk assessment. A clear definition of input scenarios and related critical conditions to be analyzed is needed, especially while applying simulation-based approaches. This work provides a methodology to fill this gap, based on hazard and exposure peaks identification. Quick and remote data-collection is adopted to speed up the process and promote the method application by low-trained specialists. Results firstly trace critical conditions by overlapping air pollution and heatwaves occurrence in the UBE. Exposure peaks (identified by remote analyses on the intended use of UBEs) are then merged to retrieve critical conditions due to the presence of the individuals over time and UBE spaces. The application to a significant case study (UBE in Milan, Italy) demonstrates the approach capabilities to identify key input scenarios for future human behavior simulation activities from a user-centered approach.

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Juan Blanco Cadena; Graziano Salvalai; Michele Lucesoli; Enrico Quagliarini; Marco D’Orazio. Flexible Workflow for Determining Critical Hazard and Exposure Scenarios for Assessing SLODs Risk in Urban Built Environments. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4538 .

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Juan Blanco Cadena, Graziano Salvalai, Michele Lucesoli, Enrico Quagliarini, Marco D’Orazio. Flexible Workflow for Determining Critical Hazard and Exposure Scenarios for Assessing SLODs Risk in Urban Built Environments. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4538.

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Juan Blanco Cadena; Graziano Salvalai; Michele Lucesoli; Enrico Quagliarini; Marco D’Orazio. 2021. "Flexible Workflow for Determining Critical Hazard and Exposure Scenarios for Assessing SLODs Risk in Urban Built Environments." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4538.

Journal article
Published: 28 January 2021 in Applied Sciences
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Citizens in dense built environments are susceptible to the simultaneous occurrence of Slow Onset Disaster (SLOD) events, being particularly prone to increasing temperatures and air pollution. Previous research works have assessed these events’ arousal separately and have identified when their intensity is critical. However, few have integrated their analysis, possibly limited by the quality and granularity of available data, the accessibility and distribution of sensors, and measurements not emulating the surroundings of a pedestrian. Thus, this work performed an outdoor meso-scale multi-hazard-based risk analysis to study the aggregated effects of the SLODs mentioned above. The study was carried out to narrow down the time-frames within 2019 in which these two events could have affected citizens’ health the most. A weighted fuzzy logic was applied to superimpose climatic (temperature, humidity, wind speed, and solar irradiance) and air quality (particulate matter, ozone, and ammonium) distress (true risk) on an hourly basis, allocated using set healthy and comfortable ranges for a specific dense urban climate context within Milan (Italy), processing data from Milano via Juvara station. The findings show that sensitive groups were at risk of high temperature and pollution separately during 26% and 29% of summer and mid-season hours, respectively; while multi-hazard risk would arise during 10.93% of summer and mid-season hours, concentrated mainly between 14:00 and 20:00.

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Juan Diego Blanco Cadena; Nicola Moretti; Graziano Salvalai; Enrico Quagliarini; Fulvio Re Cecconi; Tiziana Poli. A New Approach to Assess the Built Environment Risk under the Conjunct Effect of Critical Slow Onset Disasters: A Case Study in Milan, Italy. Applied Sciences 2021, 11, 1186 .

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Juan Diego Blanco Cadena, Nicola Moretti, Graziano Salvalai, Enrico Quagliarini, Fulvio Re Cecconi, Tiziana Poli. A New Approach to Assess the Built Environment Risk under the Conjunct Effect of Critical Slow Onset Disasters: A Case Study in Milan, Italy. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11 (3):1186.

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Juan Diego Blanco Cadena; Nicola Moretti; Graziano Salvalai; Enrico Quagliarini; Fulvio Re Cecconi; Tiziana Poli. 2021. "A New Approach to Assess the Built Environment Risk under the Conjunct Effect of Critical Slow Onset Disasters: A Case Study in Milan, Italy." Applied Sciences 11, no. 3: 1186.

Journal article
Published: 23 December 2020 in Buildings
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Since 2002, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) has set up the path to improve the efficiency gains in the EU building sector, including measures that should accelerate the rate of building renovation towards more energy efficient systems. Under the 2010 EPBD, all EU countries have established independent energy performance certification systems supported by independent mechanisms of control and verification. The EU directive 2018/844 has introduced different novelties and one of these regards the possibility for the Member States, together with the Long-Term Renovation Strategies (LTRS), to introduce an optional Building Renovation Passport Article 2a.1(c), considered as an empowering document that gives more reliable and independent information on the potential for energy savings that is tied up in their buildings. On 14 October 2020, the European Commission launched its Communication and Strategy on the Renovation Wave initiative, intending to double the current Europe’s renovation rate to make the continent carbon neutral by 2050. However, current practices and tools of energy performance assessment and certification applied across Europe face several challenges. In this context, the ALDREN project is a methodological framework that aims to support decision-making and investment in deep energy renovation of nonresidential buildings, based on a set of procedures (modules) that consist in the step-by-step implementation of protocols to assess the energy performance, indoor environmental quality, and financial value of buildings, before and after the energy renovation. The paper presents the ALDREN overall procedure with a focus on the development of the Building Renovation Passport and its application to an Italian office building.

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Marta Maria Sesana; Graziano Salvalai; Diletta Brutti; Corinne Mandin; Wenjuan Wei. ALDREN: A Methodological Framework to Support Decision-Making and Investments in Deep Energy Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings. Buildings 2020, 11, 3 .

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Marta Maria Sesana, Graziano Salvalai, Diletta Brutti, Corinne Mandin, Wenjuan Wei. ALDREN: A Methodological Framework to Support Decision-Making and Investments in Deep Energy Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings. Buildings. 2020; 11 (1):3.

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Marta Maria Sesana; Graziano Salvalai; Diletta Brutti; Corinne Mandin; Wenjuan Wei. 2020. "ALDREN: A Methodological Framework to Support Decision-Making and Investments in Deep Energy Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings." Buildings 11, no. 1: 3.

Conference paper
Published: 08 December 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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The Built Environment (BE), intended as a network of buildings, infrastructures, and open spaces, has to ensure adequate safety levels to its users in disasters that are unpredictable and quickly appear (SUdden-Onset Disasters-SUODs, e.g., earthquakes, terroristic attacks), as well as in those that emerge gradually over time (SLow-Onset Disasters-SLODs, e.g., climate-change related, pollution, and heat waves). Recent events have underlined the low BE resilience, evidencing the main limitations of current risk-mitigation and prevention solutions, i.e., underestimation of user-centered factors (users’ typologies, crowding, behaviors, others); building-centered strategies excluding neighboring open spaces and correlations between interconnected BEs; ignoring the SUODs–SLODs combination. To face these issues, the Italian PRIN (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) BE S2ECURe “Built Environment Safer in Slow and Emergency Conditions through behavioUral assessed/designed Resilient solutions” (supported by MIUR- the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research) intends to develop methods, tools, and guidelines to assess the BE resilience, promote risk-mitigation strategies design, and increase users’ risk awareness by using a holistic user-centered and cross-hazard approach. In this context, BE S2ECURe will take advantages of modeling technologies to represent, classify, and simulate the BE-users system (i.e., based on behavioral simulation models, BIM technologies), as well as promote users’ and stakeholders’ awareness through training solutions (i.e., based on virtual and augmented reality techniques). This work gives origin, objectives, and organization of the project, by underlining the impacts of the innovative approach to BE resilience.

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Enrico Quagliarini; Edoardo Currà; Fabio Fatiguso; Giovanni Mochi; Graziano Salvalai. Resilient and User-Centered Solutions for a Safer Built Environment Against Sudden and Slow Onset Disasters: The BE S2ECURe Project. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 309 -319.

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Enrico Quagliarini, Edoardo Currà, Fabio Fatiguso, Giovanni Mochi, Graziano Salvalai. Resilient and User-Centered Solutions for a Safer Built Environment Against Sudden and Slow Onset Disasters: The BE S2ECURe Project. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():309-319.

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Enrico Quagliarini; Edoardo Currà; Fabio Fatiguso; Giovanni Mochi; Graziano Salvalai. 2020. "Resilient and User-Centered Solutions for a Safer Built Environment Against Sudden and Slow Onset Disasters: The BE S2ECURe Project." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 309-319.

Conference paper
Published: 08 December 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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Resilience of the built environment is a primary issue to provide the citizens users a high-quality environment and livable cities. The aim of this research is to identify the Built Environment (BE) typologies prone to the Slow Onset Disasters (SLODs), in Italian cities. A SLOD can be defined as an uninterrupted, gradual or variable, low intensity and high frequency event that generates a negative effect on population, which on the long term can generate significant health and environmental decay. The results of the research have demonstrated that some SLODs type are more impacting within the built environment: the air pollution concentration and the increasing temperatures. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that some urban archetypes: the piazza, piazzale and the urban canyon are more prone to produce negative effects on the population through amplification of the consequences of the exposure to the SLODs. The article concludes with some insights (solar radiation and wind tunneling analysis) on the most critical architypes, for understanding better how they perform under specific conditions. This research, within the context of the Italian research project (PRIN) BE S2ECURe, is to be intended as the first step towards the definition of a method for assessment of the effects of the SLODs risk on a specific part of the city.

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Graziano Salvalai; Nicola Moretti; Juan Diego Blanco Cadena; Enrico Quagliarini. SLow Onset Disaster Events Factors in Italian Built Environment Archetypes. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 333 -343.

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Graziano Salvalai, Nicola Moretti, Juan Diego Blanco Cadena, Enrico Quagliarini. SLow Onset Disaster Events Factors in Italian Built Environment Archetypes. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():333-343.

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Graziano Salvalai; Nicola Moretti; Juan Diego Blanco Cadena; Enrico Quagliarini. 2020. "SLow Onset Disaster Events Factors in Italian Built Environment Archetypes." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 333-343.

Journal article
Published: 24 July 2020 in Sustainability
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Starting from an experimental activity, the paper describes research analysis that has been conducted on a real case construction with the aim to design its adaptation as a nearly zero energy building in three possible alternative scenarios: (i) a lab for students’ activities in the Lecco University Campus of Politecnico di Milano; (ii) an Alpine shelter for the implementation of a sustainable mountain tourism in Zermatt; (iii) an emergency shelter for poor communities in Burkina Faso. The use of an easily disassembled and lightweight steel structure coupled with dry-layered technologies allows a tailor-made envelope design, ensuring high thermal comfort, very low energy use, and limited construction times. The three case studies have been designed starting from the same architectural/structural concept. A detailed analysis, by means of finite element method and dynamic building thermal simulations, has been performed to predict the overall performances of each case study. The results show: (i) high replicability of the concept; (ii) high customization of the envelope technologies; (iii) high energy efficiency; and (iv) high thermal comfort of the architecture. The useful energy requirement in all the three analyzed scenarios is minimized and equal to 14.13, 23.88, and 41.83 kWh/m2 year, respectively, for the students’ lab, the Alpine shelter and the emergency shelter. According to this study the energy needs can be covered by renewable energy produced on site, making the architectural concept an interesting modular lightweight solution for a nearly zero energy building with high potential for replicability.

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Graziano Salvalai; Marta Maria Sesana; Diletta Brutti; Marco Imperadori. Design and Performance Analysis of a Lightweight Flexible nZEB. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5986 .

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Graziano Salvalai, Marta Maria Sesana, Diletta Brutti, Marco Imperadori. Design and Performance Analysis of a Lightweight Flexible nZEB. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (15):5986.

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Graziano Salvalai; Marta Maria Sesana; Diletta Brutti; Marco Imperadori. 2020. "Design and Performance Analysis of a Lightweight Flexible nZEB." Sustainability 12, no. 15: 5986.

Review
Published: 15 January 2020 in Sustainability
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According to its strategic long-term vision, Europe wants to be a climate-neutral economy by 2050. Buildings play a crucial role in this vision, and they represent a sector with low-cost opportunities for high-level CO2 reduction. The challenge the renovation of the existing building stock, which must be increased to 3%/year, more than double compared to the current 1.2%/year. In this context, the ALliance for Deep RENovation (ALDREN) project has the goal of encouraging property owners to undertake renovation of existing buildings using a clear, robust, and comparable method. This paper aims to present the ALDREN approach and the ALDREN Building Renovation Passport (BRP), giving an overview of the connections and data links to other existing databases and certification schemes. To understand the data value potential of buildings, one requires reliable and trustworthy information. The Building Renovation Passport, introduced by the recent Energy Performance Building Directive (EPBD) recast 844/2018/EU, aims to provide this information. This paper presents the experience of the ALDREN BRP for non-residential buildings as well as the development procedure for its data model and the potential that this tool could have for the construction market. The ALDREN BRP has been structured into two main parts—BuildLog and RenoMap—with a common language that facilitates communication on the one hand and, on the other, the setting of renovation targets based on lifetime, operation, and user needs.

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Marta Maria Sesana; Mathieu Rivallain; Graziano Salvalai. Overview of the Available Knowledge for the Data Model Definition of a Building Renovation Passport for Non-Residential Buildings: The ALDREN Project Experience. Sustainability 2020, 12, 642 .

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Marta Maria Sesana, Mathieu Rivallain, Graziano Salvalai. Overview of the Available Knowledge for the Data Model Definition of a Building Renovation Passport for Non-Residential Buildings: The ALDREN Project Experience. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):642.

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Marta Maria Sesana; Mathieu Rivallain; Graziano Salvalai. 2020. "Overview of the Available Knowledge for the Data Model Definition of a Building Renovation Passport for Non-Residential Buildings: The ALDREN Project Experience." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 642.

Conference paper
Published: 23 October 2019 in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
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During the Milan Design Week 2018, a temporary pavilion - "Delight The Light" – has been design and built - as press room for Officina Tamborrino - using their own products as construction technologies. This paper explains the evolution of this project from a temporary architecture into an NZEB open lab for university students. The introduction of innovative multilayer insulator materials characterized by high heat-reflecting properties and the tailored envelope design ensure the satisfaction of comfort both in winter and summer season and reduced drastically the time of constructions. The process, followed to reach the NZEB target, is based on performance-based design analysis. In particular the validation phase has foreseen a very detailed modelling steps on the building model through dynamic thermal simulations with finite element method to validate its thermal and hygrometric performances, coupled with daylighting and fluid dynamics simulations to consider also the users behaviour and well-being during the design stage.

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G Salvalai; M Imperadori; M M Sesana; M Baccaro; L Del Favero; A Tagliabue. Re-designing a temporary pavilion into a NZEB open lab for a university campus. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2019, 609, 072025 .

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G Salvalai, M Imperadori, M M Sesana, M Baccaro, L Del Favero, A Tagliabue. Re-designing a temporary pavilion into a NZEB open lab for a university campus. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2019; 609 (7):072025.

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G Salvalai; M Imperadori; M M Sesana; M Baccaro; L Del Favero; A Tagliabue. 2019. "Re-designing a temporary pavilion into a NZEB open lab for a university campus." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 609, no. 7: 072025.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2019 in Journal of Green Building
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At the present, the ventilated façade is one of the most widely used and most innovative systems characterized by different energy saving features, but due to its complexity, the real performances are difficult to predict by numerical analysis. This work shows the results of the monitoring campaign conducted on two Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) test boxes equipped with different thermal coat technologies to realize the performances comparisons. In particular, the investigation focus on the evaluation of surface temperatures of the different wall layers and the indoor air temperature for: i) a micro ventilated façade and ii) two different ETICS solutions. The monitoring campaign has been conducted during the summer season on walls with equivalent thermal transmittance (U-value) and different thermal capacity. In detail, the experimental work has been performed to estimate the Isotec® wall micro ventilated façade performance in comparison with two traditional ETICS technology: the first one realized with EPS and the second one with high density rock wool insulation. The results show that due to the shading effect provided by the external layer, the temperature within the cavity of the ventilate façade is reduced by 8–10 °C, reducing the cooling loads through the wall by 30–40% with respect to ETICS with EPS. The shading and the ventilation effects balance the presence of thermal insulation with less heat capacity; consequently, it validates the good quality of Isotec® as wall technology with performances comparable to ETICS solution with high density rock wool insulation.

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Graziano Salvalai; Marta Maria Sesana. EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT INSULATED FAÇADE TECHNOLOGIES IN SUMMER CONDITION. Journal of Green Building 2019, 14, 77 -91.

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Graziano Salvalai, Marta Maria Sesana. EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT INSULATED FAÇADE TECHNOLOGIES IN SUMMER CONDITION. Journal of Green Building. 2019; 14 (4):77-91.

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Graziano Salvalai; Marta Maria Sesana. 2019. "EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT INSULATED FAÇADE TECHNOLOGIES IN SUMMER CONDITION." Journal of Green Building 14, no. 4: 77-91.

Overview
Published: 27 February 2019 in WIREs Energy and Environment
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Recent efforts to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have resulted in the development of sustainable, smart districts with highly energy efficient buildings, renewable distributed energy resources (DERs), and support for alternative modes of transportation. However, there is typically little if any coordination between the district developers and the local utility. Most attention is paid to the district's annual net load and generation without considering their instantaneous imbalance or the connecting network's state. This presents an opportunity to learn lessons from the design of distribution feeders for districts characterized by low loads and high penetrations of DERs that can be applied to the distribution grid at large. The aim of this overview is to summarize current practices in sustainable district planning as well as advances in modeling and design tools for incorporating the power distribution system into the district planning process. Recent developments in the modeling and optimization of district power systems, including their coordination with multi‐energy systems and the impact of high penetration levels of renewable energy, are introduced. Sustainable districts in England and Japan are reviewed as case studies to illustrate the extent to which distribution system planning has been considered in practice. Finally, newly developed building‐to‐grid modeling tools that can facilitate coordinated district and power system design with utility involvement are introduced, along with suggestions for future research directions. This article is categorized under: Wind Power > Systems and Infrastructure Energy Policy and Planning > Systems and Infrastructure Energy Efficiency > Systems and Infrastructure

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Kate Doubleday; Faeza Hafiz; Andrew Parker; Tarek Elgindy; Anthony Florita; Gregor Henze; Graziano Salvalai; Shanti Pless; Bri-Mathias Hodge. Integrated distribution system and urban district planning with high renewable penetrations. WIREs Energy and Environment 2019, 8, 1 .

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Kate Doubleday, Faeza Hafiz, Andrew Parker, Tarek Elgindy, Anthony Florita, Gregor Henze, Graziano Salvalai, Shanti Pless, Bri-Mathias Hodge. Integrated distribution system and urban district planning with high renewable penetrations. WIREs Energy and Environment. 2019; 8 (5):1.

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Kate Doubleday; Faeza Hafiz; Andrew Parker; Tarek Elgindy; Anthony Florita; Gregor Henze; Graziano Salvalai; Shanti Pless; Bri-Mathias Hodge. 2019. "Integrated distribution system and urban district planning with high renewable penetrations." WIREs Energy and Environment 8, no. 5: 1.

Journal article
Published: 24 December 2018 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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This paper presents a new method for the planning of photovoltaic systems in the early architectural design. The method finds capacity and position of a photovoltaic system over the envelope of a building by means of optimization. The input consists in: geometry of the building, surrounding shadings, local weather, hourly electric demand, unitary costs of the system and benefits for the production of electricity (sold or self-consumed). In the input there are known values (e.g. PV installation costs [€/kWp] or present costs for the electricity [€/kWh]) and unknown ones (e.g. degradation rate [%/year], maintenance costs [€/kWp year] or discount rate [%/year]). The optimization is performed using the expected value out of a set of parametric scenarios generated by the unknown input values. The results show that, if capacity and position of the system are tailored on its aggregated electric demand, a large penetration of photovoltaic electricity is profitable at current prices without incentives or valorization from the grid. The optimization performed with an arbitrary set of electric storages shows how the presence of storage fosters a higher optimal capacity for the PV system. This method has the potential to hugely expand the installation of urban photovoltaic.

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Marco Lovati; Graziano Salvalai; Giulia Fratus; Laura Maturi; Rossano Albatici; David Moser. New method for the early design of BIPV with electric storage: A case study in northern Italy. Sustainable Cities and Society 2018, 48, 101400 .

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Marco Lovati, Graziano Salvalai, Giulia Fratus, Laura Maturi, Rossano Albatici, David Moser. New method for the early design of BIPV with electric storage: A case study in northern Italy. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2018; 48 ():101400.

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Marco Lovati; Graziano Salvalai; Giulia Fratus; Laura Maturi; Rossano Albatici; David Moser. 2018. "New method for the early design of BIPV with electric storage: A case study in northern Italy." Sustainable Cities and Society 48, no. : 101400.

Review
Published: 01 August 2018 in Energy and Buildings
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Marta Maria Sesana; Graziano Salvalai. A review on Building Renovation Passport: Potentialities and barriers on current initiatives. Energy and Buildings 2018, 173, 195 -205.

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Marta Maria Sesana, Graziano Salvalai. A review on Building Renovation Passport: Potentialities and barriers on current initiatives. Energy and Buildings. 2018; 173 ():195-205.

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Marta Maria Sesana; Graziano Salvalai. 2018. "A review on Building Renovation Passport: Potentialities and barriers on current initiatives." Energy and Buildings 173, no. : 195-205.

Chapter
Published: 15 June 2018 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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According to the European Directive, the Nearly Zero Energy Building standard (NZEB) represents a backbone to achieve the European CO2 emission reduction target considering both, new and under renovation buildings. In this chapter, the Maison Verte, a low energy residential building, located in northern Italy has been presented showing the sustainable design approach, the technological design and his energy and comfort rating. The building represents a high energy efficient case study building, in which, the principles of comfort (visual and thermal), energy and environment are perfectly balanced according to the voluntary Active House certification scheme. During the design phase, the overall building performances has been deeply analyzed applying a multi-disciplinary design optimization process tools where parametric design, financial models and energy simulation tools are combined to accelerate the design phase and explore design options faster and more effectively than current conventional design process.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. NZEB and Active House: A Case Study of Residential Building in Northern Italy. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2018, 75 -100.

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Lone Feifer, Marco Imperadori, Graziano Salvalai, Arianna Brambilla, Federica Brunone. NZEB and Active House: A Case Study of Residential Building in Northern Italy. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2018; ():75-100.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. 2018. "NZEB and Active House: A Case Study of Residential Building in Northern Italy." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 75-100.

Chapter
Published: 15 June 2018 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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International standards and constantly smarter practices are everyday more addressing the issue of a sustainable development. However, this virtuous approach has to involve the final users, in a newer and wider perspective: People First. This is the aim of the Active House Alliance, proposing a new vision for the future of the construction sector. Indoor comfort and occupants’ wellbeing, energy efficiency and renewable sources exploitation, eco-friendly approaches are integrated into new guidelines and technical prescriptions, to help designers in developing the active buildings of the future.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. What Is an Active House? A Vision Beyond 2020. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2018, 1 -33.

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Lone Feifer, Marco Imperadori, Graziano Salvalai, Arianna Brambilla, Federica Brunone. What Is an Active House? A Vision Beyond 2020. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2018; ():1-33.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. 2018. "What Is an Active House? A Vision Beyond 2020." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 1-33.

Chapter
Published: 15 June 2018 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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Active House principles represents an affordable element that could drive the design process in different stages. At Politecnico di Milano, several experimental activities have been conducted on its prototypes buildings, in order to mind the gap between the predicted, simulated, observed, and recorded building behavior. Therefore, the AH vision—with its Specifications and Guidelines—has been applied to the validation of these two innovative small buildings: VELUXlab and C-ASA. The final aim is multiple: at first, the analysis of the building features in relation to a specific climate context (the Mediterranean area); then, the information of the users, in order to educate them to the correct use of this smart objects.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. A New Paradigm for Holistic Design: Active House Prototypes at Politecnico di Milano. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2018, 35 -52.

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Lone Feifer, Marco Imperadori, Graziano Salvalai, Arianna Brambilla, Federica Brunone. A New Paradigm for Holistic Design: Active House Prototypes at Politecnico di Milano. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2018; ():35-52.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. 2018. "A New Paradigm for Holistic Design: Active House Prototypes at Politecnico di Milano." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 35-52.

Chapter
Published: 15 June 2018 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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Active House represents the next generation of sustainable buildings, which have a positive balance between benefits and resources consumed. In this chapter, the adaptation of the model for warm climates is explained. The aim is to investigate how the standard fits the Mediterranean region and how it can be used to design an Active House in hot climate. A sensitivity analysis on design parameters is performed to investigate their influence on energy consumption and thermal comfort provided according to the Specifications. RhOME, an outstanding example of efficient and sustainable design, is used to validate the analysis.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. A Reflection on Active House in Warm Climates. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2018, 53 -73.

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Lone Feifer, Marco Imperadori, Graziano Salvalai, Arianna Brambilla, Federica Brunone. A Reflection on Active House in Warm Climates. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2018; ():53-73.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. 2018. "A Reflection on Active House in Warm Climates." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 53-73.

Chapter
Published: 15 June 2018 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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Active House Alliance proposes a new tool to help designers in the whole construction process, since the architectural concept, through the definition of energetic strategies, until the characterization of material and construction details. The AH Radar guides the design process and, at least, evaluates the project, according to the holistic integration of its three principles: Comfort, Energy, and Environment. This final chapter collects the evaluation of 16 Active House projects, analyzing the design strategies and evaluating them through the criteria of the AH Radar. All those case studies represent real virtuous examples of good design practice, available now.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. Relevant Case Studies: A Benchmark for Future Design. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2018, 101 -138.

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Lone Feifer, Marco Imperadori, Graziano Salvalai, Arianna Brambilla, Federica Brunone. Relevant Case Studies: A Benchmark for Future Design. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2018; ():101-138.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. 2018. "Relevant Case Studies: A Benchmark for Future Design." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 101-138.

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Published: 01 May 2018 in Energy and Buildings
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Greenhouse gas emissions have been recognized as one of the major cause of the global warming phenomena. The built environment accounts for more than 40% of the overall energy consumption and 36% of the overall CO2 emissions in Europe. Recent studies show that housing is one of the most responsible sector for world ecological impacts. The European Parliament developed the concept of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB), characterized by a very low energy demand and a high renewable energy on-site production. In fact, energy efficiency is the first step towards the ambitious aim to reduce of 80% by 2050 the EU carbon emissions. The zero-energy building target is an achievable goal, which relies on a careful design that encompasses a synergy between passive and low-energy strategies. However, considering the whole life cycle of buildings, NZEBs reduce the operational energy close to zero, increasing the relevancy of the embodied energy, which occurs during the construction phase. Balancing the values of the operational and embodied energy is necessary to minimize buildings footprint on the environment. In this paper the renovation and re-use of the Atika building, a demonstrative energy-efficient building, is presented as case study of an environmental efficient methodology for energy retrofitting. The case relies on the methodology developed by Active House, a holistic vision for sustainable buildings labeling.

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Arianna Brambilla; Graziano Salvalai; Marco Imperadori; Marta Maria Sesana. Nearly zero energy building renovation: From energy efficiency to environmental efficiency, a pilot case study. Energy and Buildings 2018, 166, 271 -283.

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Arianna Brambilla, Graziano Salvalai, Marco Imperadori, Marta Maria Sesana. Nearly zero energy building renovation: From energy efficiency to environmental efficiency, a pilot case study. Energy and Buildings. 2018; 166 ():271-283.

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Arianna Brambilla; Graziano Salvalai; Marco Imperadori; Marta Maria Sesana. 2018. "Nearly zero energy building renovation: From energy efficiency to environmental efficiency, a pilot case study." Energy and Buildings 166, no. : 271-283.

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Published: 01 January 2018 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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The book provides an overview of the Active House (AH) vision, intended as a building design method “beyond” the passive approach for buildings of the future that will be more and more connected, smart and innovative. It offers a novel philosophical design approach in which buildings, new or renovated, are in balance with natural, renewable energies and become “concentrators-distributors” of energies instead of being consumers of resources. The book is composed of five chapters, providing information on fundamental aspects of innovations toward resource-efficient buildings, as well as case studies presenting the concept in practice. It demonstrates that a completely new design approach is possible, and that a turning point has been reached. Lastly, it shows how the AH Alliance, along with designers, institutions, industries and academies, is bringing a breath of fresh air to the world of construction.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. Active House: Smart Nearly Zero Energy Buildings. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2018, 1 .

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Lone Feifer, Marco Imperadori, Graziano Salvalai, Arianna Brambilla, Federica Brunone. Active House: Smart Nearly Zero Energy Buildings. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2018; ():1.

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Lone Feifer; Marco Imperadori; Graziano Salvalai; Arianna Brambilla; Federica Brunone. 2018. "Active House: Smart Nearly Zero Energy Buildings." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 1.

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Published: 01 August 2017 in Energy and Buildings
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The present paper illustrates the Italian pilot action of the EASEE project (Envelope Approach to improve Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in existing multi-storey multi owner residential buildings), focusing on the analysis of energy refurbishment trends of the Lombardy region residential building stock.\ud \ud More than 60% of the existing building stock in Lombardy region has been built before the 70 s and it is among the main responsible causes of final energy absorption and corresponding CO2 emissions with a mean primary energy index for heating of about 202.0 kWh/m2y. The promotion of renovation measures for such buildings, also through innovative solutions, is becoming increasingly important for both containing the greenhouse gas emissions and supporting the growth of the construction sector. To this topic, the work presents the energy renovation of a residential building in the Province of Milan through the application of innovative prefabricated composite panels that integrate both thermal insulation and exterior finishing with textile reinforced mortar. In detail, the paper describes, on one hand, the main design strategies following the preliminary analysis and, on the other hand, the whole installation process; besides, the performance of the retrofitted envelope is documented by the results of the monitoring campaign

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Graziano Salvalai; Marta Maria Sesana; Giuliana Iannaccone. Deep renovation of multi-storey multi-owner existing residential buildings: A pilot case study in Italy. Energy and Buildings 2017, 148, 23 -36.

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Graziano Salvalai, Marta Maria Sesana, Giuliana Iannaccone. Deep renovation of multi-storey multi-owner existing residential buildings: A pilot case study in Italy. Energy and Buildings. 2017; 148 ():23-36.

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Graziano Salvalai; Marta Maria Sesana; Giuliana Iannaccone. 2017. "Deep renovation of multi-storey multi-owner existing residential buildings: A pilot case study in Italy." Energy and Buildings 148, no. : 23-36.