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Prof. Gianluca Scaccianoce
Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, viale delle scienze bld 9, 90128 - Palermo, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 31 July 2021 in Building and Environment
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The effects of climate change on the built environment represents an important research challenge. Today, green roofs (GRs) represent a viable solution for enhancing energy and urban resilience in the face of climate change, as they can have a positive impact on the building's indoor thermal comfort and energy demand, as well as inducing various environmental benefits (easing urban heat island effects, improving the management of runoff water, reducing air pollution, etc.). Thus, it is important to be able to assess their effectiveness, both today and under future climate conditions, in order to evaluate whether they can also provide a valid long-term solution. In this paper, a simulation approach is proposed to evaluate the energy and indoor-comfort efficacy of GRs installed on a cluster of buildings with respect to climate change and demographic growth. To illustrate the proposed methodology, it has been applied to two European urban environments characterized by very different climatic conditions (Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg and Palermo in Italy) considering their behaviour over a period of 60 years (2020, 2050, 2080). Results showed that, with respect to standard existing roofs (i.e., without the presence of green coverage), and considering the rising temperatures due to climate change, during cooling seasons GRs enabled significant energy savings (ranging from 20% to 50% for Esch-sur-Alzette and from 3% to 15% for Palermo), improvement of the indoor comfort (reduction of the average predicted mean votes − PMVs) and attenuation of the ceiling temperatures (2–5 °C for both contexts) of the buildings' top floors.

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Laura Cirrincione; Antonino Marvuglia; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Assessing the effectiveness of green roofs in enhancing the energy and indoor comfort resilience of urban buildings to climate change: Methodology proposal and application. Building and Environment 2021, 205, 108198 .

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Laura Cirrincione, Antonino Marvuglia, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Assessing the effectiveness of green roofs in enhancing the energy and indoor comfort resilience of urban buildings to climate change: Methodology proposal and application. Building and Environment. 2021; 205 ():108198.

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Laura Cirrincione; Antonino Marvuglia; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2021. "Assessing the effectiveness of green roofs in enhancing the energy and indoor comfort resilience of urban buildings to climate change: Methodology proposal and application." Building and Environment 205, no. : 108198.

Journal article
Published: 19 August 2020 in Applied Sciences
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Tourism represents an important economic driver in Italy, being responsible for approximately 13.2% of the total GDP (a value higher than the reference European average) and for nearly 10% of the regional GDP. Among the touristic sectors, the agritourist ones show a persistent growth, experiencing in 2019 a 6.7 point percentage improvement compared to the 2017 figures. Given this situation, the transition towards a low-carbon path, affecting the building sector for some time, should also involve agritourist buildings, through the release of EU directives, member state laws, and technical rules. On the other hand, agritourism sites could be awarded the Community EU Ecolabel. Unfortunately, awarding the EU environmental excellence brand implies the availability of several data on building energy behavior that should then be managed by complex evaluation tools. To overcome this issue, the use of the simplified ARERA (Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy Networks and Environment) technical datasheets, issued to assess environmental improvements consequent to energy efficiency interventions in the urban residential building stock, is proposed. The application of this tool totally avoids using building computer-based simulation models, thus facilitating the preparation of the EU Ecolabel request documentation by agritourism owners. Being awarded the Community EU Ecolabel also implies approaching a net zero energy condition because of a lower energy consumption and a minor recourse to fossil fuels. For this purpose, an application of an easy graphical method, previously developed for residential and commercial buildings, which visually represents improvements achievable by a given agritourism when implementing energy efficiency measures, is presented.

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Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Towards Nearly Zero Energy and Environmentally Sustainable Agritourisms: The Effectiveness of the Application of the European Ecolabel Brand. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 5741 .

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Laura Cirrincione, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Towards Nearly Zero Energy and Environmentally Sustainable Agritourisms: The Effectiveness of the Application of the European Ecolabel Brand. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (17):5741.

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Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Towards Nearly Zero Energy and Environmentally Sustainable Agritourisms: The Effectiveness of the Application of the European Ecolabel Brand." Applied Sciences 10, no. 17: 5741.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2020 in Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
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Matilde Pietrafesa; Laura Cirrincione; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Suitability of Some Existing Damage Indexes for Assessing Agreements in Maintenance and Management of Museum Climatization Systems. Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems 2020, 8, 396 -409.

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Matilde Pietrafesa, Laura Cirrincione, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Suitability of Some Existing Damage Indexes for Assessing Agreements in Maintenance and Management of Museum Climatization Systems. Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. 2020; 8 (2):396-409.

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Matilde Pietrafesa; Laura Cirrincione; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Suitability of Some Existing Damage Indexes for Assessing Agreements in Maintenance and Management of Museum Climatization Systems." Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems 8, no. 2: 396-409.

Journal article
Published: 29 January 2020 in Applied Sciences
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In the line of pursuing better energy efficiency in human activities that would result in a more sustainable utilization of resources, the building sector plays a relevant role, being responsible for almost 40% of both energy consumption and the release of pollutant substances in the atmosphere. For this purpose, techniques aimed at improving the energy performances of buildings’ envelopes are of paramount importance. Among them, green roofs are becoming increasingly popular due to their capability of reducing the (electric) energy needs for (summer) climatization of buildings, hence also positively affecting the indoor comfort levels for the occupants. Clearly, reliable tools for the modelling of these envelope components are needed, requiring the availability of suitable field data. Starting with the results of a case study designed to estimate how the adoption of green roofs on a Sicilian building could positively affect its energy performance, this paper shows the impact of this technology on indoor comfort and energy consumption, as well as on the reduction of direct and indirect CO2 emissions related to the climatization of the building. Specifically, the ceiling surface temperatures of some rooms located underneath six different types of green roofs were monitored. Subsequently, the obtained data were used as input for one of the most widely used simulation models, i.e., EnergyPlus, to evaluate the indoor comfort levels and the achievable energy demand savings of the building involved. From these field analyses, green roofs were shown to contribute to the mitigation of the indoor air temperatures, thus producing an improvement of the comfort conditions, especially in summer conditions, despite some worsening during transition periods seeming to arise.

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Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino; Simona Aprile. Green Roofs as Effective Tools for Improving the Indoor Comfort Levels of Buildings—An Application to a Case Study in Sicily. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 893 .

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Laura Cirrincione, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Giancarlo Sorrentino, Simona Aprile. Green Roofs as Effective Tools for Improving the Indoor Comfort Levels of Buildings—An Application to a Case Study in Sicily. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (3):893.

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Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino; Simona Aprile. 2020. "Green Roofs as Effective Tools for Improving the Indoor Comfort Levels of Buildings—An Application to a Case Study in Sicily." Applied Sciences 10, no. 3: 893.

Chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Architecture and Design
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The “Smart Cities & Communities Initiative” of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan is the strategic European response to lead cities and regions to a carbon free future. In this contest energy efficiency in buildings has a crucial role and must be considered in a holistic approach to the urban planning. In order to implement the minimum requirements stated by the European Directive about the Energy Performance of Buildings, and in order to consider different planning layers with the view to a smart city planning, local regulations are a key factor aiming at sustainable territorial planning. This paper investigates the possibility to draft a basic structure of Municipal Building Regulations in order to guide local administrators and technicians and to limit discretionary power of bureaucracy. The paper is organized as follows. First, a review of the most common practices for building regulations in Europe is proposed, then the basic structure of a municipal building regulation for the city of Palermo (Southern Italy) accounting for sustainability is discussed.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Maurizio Carta; Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency. Architecture and Design 2019, 1281 -1305.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Valentina Vaccaro, Maurizio Carta, Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency. Architecture and Design. 2019; ():1281-1305.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Maurizio Carta; Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. 2019. "Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency." Architecture and Design , no. : 1281-1305.

Chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Smart Cities and Smart Spaces
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The “Smart Cities & Communities Initiative” of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan is the strategic European response to lead cities and regions to a carbon free future. In this contest energy efficiency in buildings has a crucial role and must be considered in a holistic approach to the urban planning. In order to implement the minimum requirements stated by the European Directive about the Energy Performance of Buildings, and in order to consider different planning layers with the view to a smart city planning, local regulations are a key factor aiming at sustainable territorial planning. This paper investigates the possibility to draft a basic structure of Municipal Building Regulations in order to guide local administrators and technicians and to limit discretionary power of bureaucracy. The paper is organized as follows. First, a review of the most common practices for building regulations in Europe is proposed, then the basic structure of a municipal building regulation for the city of Palermo (Southern Italy) accounting for sustainability is discussed.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Maurizio Carta; Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency. Smart Cities and Smart Spaces 2019, 509 -535.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Valentina Vaccaro, Maurizio Carta, Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency. Smart Cities and Smart Spaces. 2019; ():509-535.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Maurizio Carta; Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. 2019. "Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency." Smart Cities and Smart Spaces , no. : 509-535.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2018 in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe)
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The energy saving in building goes on as an important challenge in the policy of Developed Countries. While the issue of energy building efficiency in heating season has deeply been investigated for a long time the issue of energy building efficiency in cooling season is relatively recent. Moreover considering the increase of electric consumption for air-conditioning in summer mainly due to the growing quality of life the research of technologies for reducing energy building consumption during this season becomes essential. The green roof represents a technology useful to reduce the energy consumption during the cooling season. In this work the authors report the results of a monitoring campaign of temperature through a green roof that is installed in a building situ in a town close to Palermo, South of Italy.

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Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino; Simona Aprile. A Case-Study of Green Roof Monitoring: The Building of Council for Agricultural Research and Economics in Bagheria, (Italy). 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) 2018, 1 -5.

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Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Giancarlo Sorrentino, Simona Aprile. A Case-Study of Green Roof Monitoring: The Building of Council for Agricultural Research and Economics in Bagheria, (Italy). 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). 2018; ():1-5.

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Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino; Simona Aprile. 2018. "A Case-Study of Green Roof Monitoring: The Building of Council for Agricultural Research and Economics in Bagheria, (Italy)." 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) , no. : 1-5.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2018 in Journal of Building Engineering
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Radiative heat exchanges inside buildings remarkably affect the thermal balance of the human body in confined spaces and the related thermal comfort sensations of people. The mean radiant temperature is an important component of this balance. Unfortunately, it is usually computed by means of too simplified relationships, which significantly influence the comfort evaluations. Such simplified approaches are also accountable for a less effective design of HVAC systems which, in turn, could result in high energy consumption in the climatization of buildings. However, an accurate evaluation of the mean radiant temperature, especially when high intensity sources are present in a given internal space, depends on the angle factors between human subjects and surrounding surfaces of the enclosure. Angle factors, in turn, are direct functions of the projected area factors of the human body. Presently, there is still a certain lack in the availability of simple and reliable methods for computing angle factors of people in assigned postures, particularly in case of complex geometry and presence of heat high intensity sources, like sun. A comprehensive method is here introduced for evaluating the thermal comfort conditions of indoor spaces, avoiding the difficult singling out of several algorithms, dispersed in an inorganic way in the literature. A further contribution consists in the possibility of evaluating geometrically complex enclosures also in presence of direct solar radiation entering the room. Moreover, an analytical method for computing the projected area factors, based on experimental results, obtained by means of a photographic apparatus on purpose designed, is included in the methodology. An application of the method to a typical building situation in presence of direct solar radiation is also proposed.

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Concettina Marino; Antonino Nucara; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. The spatial evaluation of the radiative human body heat exchanges: An effective contribution for limiting energy consumption and achieving better indoor conditions in buildings. Journal of Building Engineering 2018, 16, 118 -128.

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Concettina Marino, Antonino Nucara, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. The spatial evaluation of the radiative human body heat exchanges: An effective contribution for limiting energy consumption and achieving better indoor conditions in buildings. Journal of Building Engineering. 2018; 16 ():118-128.

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Concettina Marino; Antonino Nucara; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2018. "The spatial evaluation of the radiative human body heat exchanges: An effective contribution for limiting energy consumption and achieving better indoor conditions in buildings." Journal of Building Engineering 16, no. : 118-128.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2017 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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Patrizia Ferrante; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro. Old or new occupants of energy rehabilitated buildings. Two different approaches for hierarchizing group of buildings. Sustainable Cities and Society 2017, 34, 385 -393.

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Patrizia Ferrante, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Valentina Vaccaro. Old or new occupants of energy rehabilitated buildings. Two different approaches for hierarchizing group of buildings. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2017; 34 ():385-393.

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Patrizia Ferrante; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro. 2017. "Old or new occupants of energy rehabilitated buildings. Two different approaches for hierarchizing group of buildings." Sustainable Cities and Society 34, no. : 385-393.

Journal article
Published: 20 September 2017 in International Journal of Heat and Technology
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Vincenzo La Rocca; Massimo Morale; Giorgia Peri; Gianluca Scaccianoce. A solar pond for feeding a thermoelectric generator or an organic Rankine cycle system. International Journal of Heat and Technology 2017, 35, 1 .

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Vincenzo La Rocca, Massimo Morale, Giorgia Peri, Gianluca Scaccianoce. A solar pond for feeding a thermoelectric generator or an organic Rankine cycle system. International Journal of Heat and Technology. 2017; 35 (Special 1):1.

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Vincenzo La Rocca; Massimo Morale; Giorgia Peri; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2017. "A solar pond for feeding a thermoelectric generator or an organic Rankine cycle system." International Journal of Heat and Technology 35, no. Special 1: 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2017 in Energy and Buildings
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The energy retrofit of the existing building stocks is considered a preeminent strategy to lowering theenergy consumption of the building sector. Other than the definition of the most successful combinationof energy saving measures, the definition of a suitable ranking of all the buildings of the stock, on whichimplementing established energy retrofit measures, is quite a relevant issue. The most eligible criterionfor prioritizing the buildings seems their energy consumption because it combines the building energyperformance and their size.To investigate the role played by the building dimension in determining the order of priority of all thebuildings of a given stock, this paper presents and compares different hierarchical orders of 25 existingbuildings that were obtained with and without consideration of the size of the buildings. Results showthat, when the size of buildings is covered in the calculations, the generated prioritized order differssignificantly. In addition, it has found that the entity of the variations compared to the hierarchy thatdoes not contemplate the size of buildings, is logarithmically correlated with the net surface. Additionally,some concerns have arisen regarding the role of the EP index for the building energy classification

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Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro. On the ranking criteria for energy retrofitting building stocks: Which building goes first? The role of the building size in the establishment of priority lists. Energy and Buildings 2017, 150, 90 -99.

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Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Valentina Vaccaro. On the ranking criteria for energy retrofitting building stocks: Which building goes first? The role of the building size in the establishment of priority lists. Energy and Buildings. 2017; 150 ():90-99.

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Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro. 2017. "On the ranking criteria for energy retrofitting building stocks: Which building goes first? The role of the building size in the establishment of priority lists." Energy and Buildings 150, no. : 90-99.

Journal article
Published: 03 March 2017 in Sustainability
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Recent years have seen an increasing public interest in issues related to energy saving and environmental pollution reduction in the building sector. As a result, many directives have been issued, the most important being the Directive 2010/31/EU (EPBD Recast) on the energy performance of buildings, which requires that “Member States shall ensure that by 31 December 2020 all new buildings are nearly zero-energy buildings”. This goal can be obtained not only by reducing energy demand for heating and cooling, but also, for example, by improving building envelope performances. In this work, a first analysis of the thermal and structural behaviour of a biocomposite material, constituted by a natural resin (rosin) and vegetal fibres (hay), has been performed, with particular attention to the share of fibres and the granulometry in the mixture. The biocomposite has shown both good insulation properties and mechanical resistance. However, the results show that further analyses should be performed on the optimisation of the samples’ preparation process.

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Maria La Gennusa; Pere Llorach-Massana; Juan Ignacio Montero; Francisco Javier Peña; Joan Rieradevall; Patrizia Ferrante; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino. Composite Building Materials: Thermal and Mechanical Performances of Samples Realized with Hay and Natural Resins. Sustainability 2017, 9, 373 .

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Maria La Gennusa, Pere Llorach-Massana, Juan Ignacio Montero, Francisco Javier Peña, Joan Rieradevall, Patrizia Ferrante, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Giancarlo Sorrentino. Composite Building Materials: Thermal and Mechanical Performances of Samples Realized with Hay and Natural Resins. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (3):373.

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Maria La Gennusa; Pere Llorach-Massana; Juan Ignacio Montero; Francisco Javier Peña; Joan Rieradevall; Patrizia Ferrante; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino. 2017. "Composite Building Materials: Thermal and Mechanical Performances of Samples Realized with Hay and Natural Resins." Sustainability 9, no. 3: 373.

Book chapter
Published: 13 January 2017 in From Smart Grids to Smart Cities
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This chapter reviews a selected set of approaches to urban energy systems study with a special focus on electrical power systems. It proposes urban energy systems as networks of multi-source hybrid energy hubs, where different energy flows are collected at the same bus and can be stored, delivered or transformed as needed. In many works, it is common to find operation and design issues solved for urban microgrids and energy hubs by means of highly efficient software tools often available as freeware. In this work, a wide overview of optimization software tools for microgrid analysis and planning is given. The most common optimization software tools are HOMER and DER-CAM, which can be used to run simulations of urban energy systems. All cited software tools, for both analysis and optimal design and operation, perform simulations referring to an energy planning point of view and none addresses the problem of linking energy features with contextual features.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Vincenzo Domenico Genco; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Raffaella Riva Sanseverino; Gaetano Zizzo; Maria Luisa Di Silvestre; Diego Arnone; Giuseppe Paterno. Urban Energy Hubs and Microgrids: Smart Energy Planning for Cities. From Smart Grids to Smart Cities 2017, 129 -175.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Vincenzo Domenico Genco, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Valentina Vaccaro, Raffaella Riva Sanseverino, Gaetano Zizzo, Maria Luisa Di Silvestre, Diego Arnone, Giuseppe Paterno. Urban Energy Hubs and Microgrids: Smart Energy Planning for Cities. From Smart Grids to Smart Cities. 2017; ():129-175.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Vincenzo Domenico Genco; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Raffaella Riva Sanseverino; Gaetano Zizzo; Maria Luisa Di Silvestre; Diego Arnone; Giuseppe Paterno. 2017. "Urban Energy Hubs and Microgrids: Smart Energy Planning for Cities." From Smart Grids to Smart Cities , no. : 129-175.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2016 in Energy
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The paper provides a contribution for populating database of three physical parameters needed to model energy performance of buildings with green roofs: “coverage ratio” (σf), leaf area index (LAI) and leaf temperature (Tf). On purpose, six plant species were investigated experimentally: Phyla nordiflora, Aptenia lancifolia, Mesembryanthenum barbatus, Gazania nivea, Gazania uniflora, and Sedum. Proper ranges of the cited parameters have been found for each species. The here indicated ranges of σf values refer to different growth levels of the species in the same lapse of time, that is four months. Single measured LAI values are also reported for the same plants. As for the Tf (upper and lower layer), ranges of revealed temperatures refer to those detected from 10:30 a.m. to 16:30 p.m. of a selected day. Additionally, the dependence of Tf on climatic parameters was investigated. A linear equation resulted the best fitting curve for all experimental Tf data and the corresponding solar radiation data (with autocorrelation coefficients between 0.80 and 0.98). Furthermore, the effect potentially produced on building energy consumption by these species was analyzed using a simulation tool. Estimated cooling energy savings range approximately between 8% and 20% depending on adopted plants.

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Patrizia Ferrante; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Vegetation growth parameters and leaf temperature: Experimental results from a six plots green roofs' system. Energy 2016, 115, 1723 -1732.

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Patrizia Ferrante, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Vegetation growth parameters and leaf temperature: Experimental results from a six plots green roofs' system. Energy. 2016; 115 ():1723-1732.

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Patrizia Ferrante; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2016. "Vegetation growth parameters and leaf temperature: Experimental results from a six plots green roofs' system." Energy 115, no. : 1723-1732.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2016 in 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)
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The history of prisons is full of contradictions in every historical period and the evolution of prison buildings expresses many faces in the history of each country. The concept of punishment imposed on the offender has undergone several changes over the centuries, related to culture, politics, and to the evolution of the human thought. For centuries, tiny closed spaces have been adapted for the offenders' detention, without ever thinking to create an ad hoc functional distribution of spaces. The issue of the design of prisons has often been a reason of debate, and it is still an open field of discussion. From a legal point of view, in recent years there has been a rethinking of the problem. From a social point of view, detention should be seen as a time for change and transformation of the offender into a rehabilitated subject, and the EU is forcing the Countries to make important steps ahead. But, to achieve this goal, we all as a high level cultural society need a change in the way of thinking and approaching the problem and adequate structures, to support individuals by offering them the opportunity, “which in civil life they did not have or have not been able to exploit”. The Smart Cities “revolution” could represent the right opportunity to introduce a change of perspective and technical design thinking approach also in this kind of buildings. In this work, we describe a preliminary step of an emblematic case study of a recent prison building, which has many common characteristics to most Italian prison buildings. We propose a completely new approach to understand and deal with the prisons' environments and users.

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Massimiliano Oliveri; Silvia Pennisi; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Fabio Bisegna. The relavance of indoor comfort in the process of prisoners' rehabilitation: A case study. 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC) 2016, 1 -6.

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Massimiliano Oliveri, Silvia Pennisi, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Valentina Vaccaro, Fabio Bisegna. The relavance of indoor comfort in the process of prisoners' rehabilitation: A case study. 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC). 2016; ():1-6.

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Massimiliano Oliveri; Silvia Pennisi; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Fabio Bisegna. 2016. "The relavance of indoor comfort in the process of prisoners' rehabilitation: A case study." 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC) , no. : 1-6.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2015 in Energy Procedia
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In this paper, a dynamic simulation of a building located in the Campus University of Palermo, Italy, has been carried out. We considered two different scenarios; in the first one, the building as it is, with a conventional covering, while in the second one the roof was equipped with a green roof. The results of the two simulations have been compared, suggesting that such building component could contribute to the energy savings of the building. However, it has to be considered as part of other possible actions devoted to improve the energy efficiency of the whole building.

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Patrizia Ferrante; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino. Comparison Between Conventional and Vegetated Roof by Means of a Dynamic Simulation. Energy Procedia 2015, 78, 2917 -2922.

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Patrizia Ferrante, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Giancarlo Sorrentino. Comparison Between Conventional and Vegetated Roof by Means of a Dynamic Simulation. Energy Procedia. 2015; 78 ():2917-2922.

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Patrizia Ferrante; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino. 2015. "Comparison Between Conventional and Vegetated Roof by Means of a Dynamic Simulation." Energy Procedia 78, no. : 2917-2922.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2015 in International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems
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The “Smart Cities & Communities Initiative” of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan is the strategic European response to lead cities and regions to a carbon free future. In this contest energy efficiency in buildings has a crucial role and must be considered in a holistic approach to the urban planning. In order to implement the minimum requirements stated by the European Directive about the Energy Performance of Buildings, and in order to consider different planning layers with the view to a smart city planning, local regulations are a key factor aiming at sustainable territorial planning. This paper investigates the possibility to draft a basic structure of Municipal Building Regulations in order to guide local administrators and technicians and to limit discretionary power of bureaucracy. The paper is organized as follows. First, a review of the most common practices for building regulations in Europe is proposed, then the basic structure of a municipal building regulation for the city of Palermo (Southern Italy) accounting for sustainability is discussed.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Maurizio Carta; Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems 2015, 6, 56 -82.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Valentina Vaccaro, Maurizio Carta, Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems. 2015; 6 (4):56-82.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Maurizio Carta; Raffaella Riva Sanseverino. 2015. "Smart Cities and Municipal Building Regulation for Energy Efficiency." International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems 6, no. 4: 56-82.

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Published: 01 June 2015 in 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)
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The smart city is increasingly becoming a concept of reference for what concerns the planning and the spatial development of cities. The concept of smart city cannot be easily standardized. It is based on a multi-service and multi-sectorial planning regarding various urban functions (energy, mobility, waste, etc.) and places them under a common denominator: the use of advanced technologies for minimizing resources consumption and simultaneously increase the quality of life of the citizens. This paper aims to give an overview on the concept of smart city and outline what, at present, are the main intervention areas considered at European level. Then the paper focuses on the public lighting that is among the sectors most affected by “smart actions” by the Public Administrations. The work concludes with a proposal for a retrofit of the public lighting system in a small town in Sicily (Italy).

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Gaetano Zizzo; Silvia Pennisi; Sanseverino E.R.; Scaccianoce G.; Vaccaro V.; Pennisi S.. Smart city and public lighting. 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC) 2015, 665 -670.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Valentina Vaccaro, Gaetano Zizzo, Silvia Pennisi, Sanseverino E.R., Scaccianoce G., Vaccaro V., Pennisi S.. Smart city and public lighting. 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC). 2015; ():665-670.

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Eleonora Riva Sanseverino; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Valentina Vaccaro; Gaetano Zizzo; Silvia Pennisi; Sanseverino E.R.; Scaccianoce G.; Vaccaro V.; Pennisi S.. 2015. "Smart city and public lighting." 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC) , no. : 665-670.

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Published: 12 May 2015 in Sustainability
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The functional performances of conventional roundabouts (single-lane and multi-lane) and innovative roundabouts (spiral, flower, C and turbo) can be improved through right-turn bypass lanes controlled by stop, yield or free-flow signs. The article presents evaluations of the emissions of air pollutants (carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particle pollution (PM10 and PM2.5)), fuel consumption and construction, management, energetic and environmental costs in roundabouts without or with bypass lanes (controlled by stop, yield or free-flow). The suggested methodology has a general character and can be applied as a multi-parametric criterion for choosing road intersections, although, in the present paper, it has been employed only for a case study. For the aims of this research, we employed recent closed-form formulations to determine roundabout performances; moreover, we used the COPERT IV® software to estimate air emissions in nine different types of vehicles. Numerous traffic simulations were carried out. The variation in the maximum hourly traffic Qmax and annual traffic QTOT provided the appropriate domains of the examined geometric layouts, both in functional and environmental terms and with regard to generalized costs, estimated for a 10-year period. It resulted that the introduction of right-turn bypasses in all arms of conventional roundabouts with a one ring lane and one lane at the entries (single-lane roundabouts) is the most cost-effective when the flows entering the roundabout are higher than Qmax = 2000 veh/h. Moreover, free-flow bypass lanes always provide greater capacity and lower delays than stop- or yield-signaled bypasses. However, with extremely high Qmax values, stop-controlled bypasses guarantee lower fuel consumption, while those with a yield sign lower total costs.

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Marco Guerrieri; Ferdinando Corriere; Gianfranco Rizzo; Barbara Lo Casto; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Improving the Sustainability of Transportation: Environmental and Functional Benefits of Right Turn By-Pass Lanes at Roundabouts. Sustainability 2015, 7, 5838 -5856.

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Marco Guerrieri, Ferdinando Corriere, Gianfranco Rizzo, Barbara Lo Casto, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Improving the Sustainability of Transportation: Environmental and Functional Benefits of Right Turn By-Pass Lanes at Roundabouts. Sustainability. 2015; 7 (5):5838-5856.

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Marco Guerrieri; Ferdinando Corriere; Gianfranco Rizzo; Barbara Lo Casto; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2015. "Improving the Sustainability of Transportation: Environmental and Functional Benefits of Right Turn By-Pass Lanes at Roundabouts." Sustainability 7, no. 5: 5838-5856.

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Published: 01 November 2014 in Energy Conversion and Management
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Maria La Gennusa; Massimo Morale; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Optimization of a thermoelectric system for power generation realized by “hidden” components. Energy Conversion and Management 2014, 87, 495 -503.

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Maria La Gennusa, Massimo Morale, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Optimization of a thermoelectric system for power generation realized by “hidden” components. Energy Conversion and Management. 2014; 87 ():495-503.

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Maria La Gennusa; Massimo Morale; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2014. "Optimization of a thermoelectric system for power generation realized by “hidden” components." Energy Conversion and Management 87, no. : 495-503.