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Laura Calcagnini
Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University, 00153 Rome, Italy

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Assistant professor since 2019 at the Roma Tre University, Ph.D in "Energy Science" (2008) at Sapienza University of Rome, Architect (2003), master of Science in "Environmental Design" (2005). She has carried out teaching activities at the HTWG in Konstanz (DE) and research activities at the RPI Renseelear Politechnic Institute of Troy, Albany (USA). Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the Roma Tre University (2016-2017) and at Sapienza University of Rome (2009-2014). She publishes scientific papers on the topics of the environmental impact of building materials, energy efficiency and tools for technological design. She is the author of about 80 publications.

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Published: 04 February 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper presents the results of a three-year research project aimed at addressing the issue of water shortage and retention/collection in drought-affected rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. The project consisted in the design, construction, and the upgrade of existing barrages near Kita, the regional capital of Kayes in Mali. The effort was led by the Department of Architecture of Roma Tre University in partnership with the Onlus Gente d’Africa (who handled the on-the-ground logistics), the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence and the École Supérieure d’Ingénierie, d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme of Bamako, Mali. The practical realization of the project was made possible by Romagna Acque Società delle Fonti Ltd., a water utility supplying drinking water in the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) that provided the financing as well as the operational contribution of AES Architettura Emergenza Sviluppo, a nonprofit association operating in the depressed areas of the world. The completion of the research project resulted in the replenishment of reservoirs and renewed presence of water in the subsoil of the surrounding areas. Several economic activities such as fishing and rice cultivation have spawned from the availability of water. The monitoring of these results is still ongoing; however, it is already possible to assess some critical issues highlighted, especially with the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic in the research areas.

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Adolfo Baratta; Laura Calcagnini; Abdoulaye Deyoko; Fabrizio Finucci; Antonio Magarò; Massimo Mariani. Mitigation of the Water Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Construction of Delocalized Water Collection and Retention Systems. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1673 .

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Adolfo Baratta, Laura Calcagnini, Abdoulaye Deyoko, Fabrizio Finucci, Antonio Magarò, Massimo Mariani. Mitigation of the Water Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Construction of Delocalized Water Collection and Retention Systems. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1673.

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Adolfo Baratta; Laura Calcagnini; Abdoulaye Deyoko; Fabrizio Finucci; Antonio Magarò; Massimo Mariani. 2021. "Mitigation of the Water Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Construction of Delocalized Water Collection and Retention Systems." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1673.

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Published: 13 July 2018 in Seaside Building Design: Principles and Practice
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This paper is part of wider research on a stock of 80 schools and their energetic retrofit projects financed by the EU in the Lazio region in 2016 to reduce CO2 emissions. Because in these procedures the suggested retrofit strategies are often selected on the basis of common best practices (considering average energy savings), but are not supported by proper energy investigations, following the principles of an evidence-based approach, we analysed all the information on the interventions and developed a database to support public administration in future informed financing processes. All the design choices – including the use of eco-materials, envelope technologies and renewable energy sources – have been studied in relation to context, climate zone, school typology, use, construction quality and costs. Three levels of investigation have been defined to identify significant clusters according to reported data: data analysis, monitoring and field surveys, and observations of technological performance of the interventions. For each cluster, the most representative actual building was identified to allow comparability of different materials and technologies, to control and plan new energy retrofit interventions, thereby reducing inefficiencies. For each representative building, a validating procedure based on dynamic simulation was developed. In this paper, a picture of the interventions regarding the use of materials and technologies for envelope retrofitting is given. The first results highlight that the interventions have an effective energy performance overall, but they have many deficiencies in terms of environmental quality of the materials used and nothing has been done to comply with the guidelines of the recent minimum environmental criteria (CAM). Purpose: The comparison between the expected and actual energy performance of the refurbished schools allows indicators to be singled out to support the development of new calls to allocate public funds according to priority intervention areas, especially in view of the obligations recently established by the CAM and confirmed both in the recent National Energy Strategy and in the Sustainable Development Strategy. An evidence-based approach and cluster analysis are the methodologies used to select the most representative buildings and homogeneous building classes in terms of constructive and energy characteristics of the building stock. Research is limited to the regional field, but the methodology can be extended on a national and international scale. The paper examines a significant number of case studies and develops an evaluation methodology for energetic retrofit interventions, in compliance with the latest environmental and energy standards for building envelope materials.

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Francesco Asdrubali; Laura Calcagnini; Luca Evangelisti; Claudia Guattari; Paola Marrone. Effectiveness of Materials, Technologies, and Renewable Energy in Educational Buildings Through Cluster Analysis of Energy Retrofitting. Seaside Building Design: Principles and Practice 2018, 25 -37.

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Francesco Asdrubali, Laura Calcagnini, Luca Evangelisti, Claudia Guattari, Paola Marrone. Effectiveness of Materials, Technologies, and Renewable Energy in Educational Buildings Through Cluster Analysis of Energy Retrofitting. Seaside Building Design: Principles and Practice. 2018; ():25-37.

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Francesco Asdrubali; Laura Calcagnini; Luca Evangelisti; Claudia Guattari; Paola Marrone. 2018. "Effectiveness of Materials, Technologies, and Renewable Energy in Educational Buildings Through Cluster Analysis of Energy Retrofitting." Seaside Building Design: Principles and Practice , no. : 25-37.

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Published: 14 March 2018 in Energies
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A large part of the stock of Italian educational buildings have undertaken energy retrofit interventions, thanks to European funds allocated by complex technical-administrative calls. In these projects, the suggested retrofit strategies are often selected based on the common best practices (considering average energy savings) but are not supported by proper energy investigations. In this paper, Italian school buildings’ stock was analyzed by cluster analysis with the aim of providing a methodology able to identify the best energy retrofit interventions from the perspective of cost-benefit, and to correlate them with the specific characteristics of the educational buildings. This research is based on the analysis of about 80 school buildings located in central Italy and characterized by different features and construction technologies. The refurbished buildings were classified in homogeneous clusters and, for each of them, the most representative building was identified. Furthermore, for each representative building a validating procedure based on dynamic simulations and a comparison with actual energy use was performed. The two buildings thus singled out provide a model that could be developed into a useful tool for Public Administrations to suggest priorities in the planning of new energy retrofits of existing school building stocks.

ACS Style

Paola Marrone; Paola Gori; Francesco Asdrubali; Luca Evangelisti; Laura Calcagnini; Gianluca Grazieschi. Energy Benchmarking in Educational Buildings through Cluster Analysis of Energy Retrofitting. Energies 2018, 11, 649 .

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Paola Marrone, Paola Gori, Francesco Asdrubali, Luca Evangelisti, Laura Calcagnini, Gianluca Grazieschi. Energy Benchmarking in Educational Buildings through Cluster Analysis of Energy Retrofitting. Energies. 2018; 11 (3):649.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Paola Marrone; Paola Gori; Francesco Asdrubali; Luca Evangelisti; Laura Calcagnini; Gianluca Grazieschi. 2018. "Energy Benchmarking in Educational Buildings through Cluster Analysis of Energy Retrofitting." Energies 11, no. 3: 649.