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Prof. Dr. Ernesto Antonini
University of Bologna - Department of Architecture and Planning

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Journal article
Published: 09 August 2021 in Sustainability
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The sense of uncertainty and fragility due to the effects and magnitude of global challenges we are facing (from the circumstances of the pandemic to the impacts of climate change) requires—much more than in the past—the capacity to generate a visionary and forefront design approach in the young generation, with an aim to stimulate their reaction attitude rather than providing consolidated tools from past conditions that no longer exist or will rapidly evolve. Within this general framework, we have investigated the effectiveness and impacts of experienced-based methods of learning and innovative educational tools in architecture that are aimed at shaping expertise that addresses the aspects of environment and climate change in the context of socio-cultural dynamics, real potentialities and constraints, and their transdisciplinary trajectories. We analyzed five international pioneering teaching experiences that provided the opportunity to understand the outcomes of collaborative and experiential learning processes by which the educational activities leverage dialogue between diverse communities (including academia, citizens, policymakers, and practitioners). The study outcomes show that shifting the pedagogical paradigm towards experience-based models can improve the awareness of future practitioners for the climate implications of architectural design, implement their analysis and project skills, and trigger processes of knowledge transfer and co-production at the community level. Experience-based models also allow them to better address the societal and cultural issues involved in decision making.

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Ernesto Antonini; Jacopo Gaspari; Cristina Visconti. Collaborative Learning Experiences in a Changing Environment: Innovative Educational Approaches in Architecture. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8895 .

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Ernesto Antonini, Jacopo Gaspari, Cristina Visconti. Collaborative Learning Experiences in a Changing Environment: Innovative Educational Approaches in Architecture. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8895.

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Ernesto Antonini; Jacopo Gaspari; Cristina Visconti. 2021. "Collaborative Learning Experiences in a Changing Environment: Innovative Educational Approaches in Architecture." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8895.

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Published: 08 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Since energy transition depends significantly on reducing the built environment’s energy needs, many regulations and incentives have been implemented globally over the last three decades. Despite some positive results, many scholars suggest that households’ behavioral change could greatly accelerate progress. People’s levels of awareness and willingness to change, as well as the provision of feedback technologies, are important factors affecting the process. In spite of the extent of this body of literature, household consumption keeps rising. Our thesis is that the subject has been investigated without considering some important correlations among factors. Therefore, this study developed a survey to investigate actual consumers’ perspectives on the topic by combining people’s awareness of energy use, interaction with metering devices, and user motivation into a coherent framework. A testing session involving 500 people was held as a validation phase for a future large-scale launch of the questionnaire. The test yielded some early outcomes on how people become more interested in changing as they gain more knowledge and are offered suggestions. However, despite their supposedly advanced knowledge as educators and students, the sample’s level of awareness was low, suggesting that a more user-centered approach is needed for wide-scale progress.

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Jacopo Gaspari; Ernesto Antonini; Lia Marchi; Vincenzo Vodola. Energy Transition at Home: A Survey on the Data and Practices That Lead to a Change in Household Energy Behavior. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5268 .

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Jacopo Gaspari, Ernesto Antonini, Lia Marchi, Vincenzo Vodola. Energy Transition at Home: A Survey on the Data and Practices That Lead to a Change in Household Energy Behavior. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5268.

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Jacopo Gaspari; Ernesto Antonini; Lia Marchi; Vincenzo Vodola. 2021. "Energy Transition at Home: A Survey on the Data and Practices That Lead to a Change in Household Energy Behavior." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5268.

Journal article
Published: 28 February 2021 in Architectural Engineering and Design Management
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The responsibilities of the building sector concerning resource consumption and waste generation, as a problem of research, require a transition from a linear to a circular model in order to obtain significant positive effects on the environment. The Biomimicry approach appears to be a promising way to move the sector towards the circular economy, to meet the increasing levels of functional and environmental requirements, which is shifting the research on building materials and products toward biomimetic solutions. Along this path, the building envelope emerges as an interesting application field concerning its adaptive behaviour towards external conditions. In this field of research, the knowledge gap concerns the need for criteria to classify the biomimetic behaviour of building materials under operating conditions and to identify their environmental effects, as well as their compliance with the principles of the circular economy. The study provides a methodology to develop a set of classification criteria applicable to biomimetic materials and products which are suitable for application in the building envelope and a related set of markers that identify the strongest environmental relationships and implications related to the aptitude for integrating circular economy principles. The mapping highlights the absence of some relationships thus highlighting potential limitations of biomimetic materials/products within circular economy principles and thus current research limits. The results obtained may be useful to evaluate and compare biomimetic materials and products for the building envelope, whilst also providing the first step for further research on their environmental implications within circular economy processes. HIGHLIGHTS

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. Classification criteria and markers for biomimetic building envelope within circular economy principles: a critical review. Architectural Engineering and Design Management 2021, 1 -23.

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Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri, Francesca Giglio. Classification criteria and markers for biomimetic building envelope within circular economy principles: a critical review. Architectural Engineering and Design Management. 2021; ():1-23.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. 2021. "Classification criteria and markers for biomimetic building envelope within circular economy principles: a critical review." Architectural Engineering and Design Management , no. : 1-23.

Chapter
Published: 05 January 2021 in GNSS for Rail Transportation
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To comply with EU directives, which require new buildings to be nZEB by 2021 (2010/31/EC) and all buildings to be nZEB by 2050 (2018/844/EC), the construction industry has mainly focused on the containment of energy consumption during use, but scientific literature highlights that techniques employed to achieve higher operational energy efficiency lead to an increase of embodied energy, embodied carbon and other environmental impacts, especially those related to the manufacturing of building materials. The more stringent energy standards have thus reduced the impacts of the building operational phase, but raising those relating to materials and components which are required to allow the buildings achieving these benefits. Several evidences of this trend are provided by applying the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): although that method is not currently addressed by the EPBD, the key role that the embedded impacts play on the building environmental balance is confirmed. Though a precise calculation of embedded impacts is difficult to perform, due to the many factors involved, the estimation of their share compared to the operating impacts is crucial to determine an effective building energy and environmental balance. Moving toward this target, the Sustainable Building Rating Systems (SBRS) are progressively integrating LCA-based criteria within their protocols. This should provide a simplified and standardized approach thus helping their application in building sector, as preconized by the literature. However, several discrepancies among the different SBSRs in use worldwide emerge in both method’s application and interpretation.

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Ernesto Antonini. Building’s Operational Versus Embodied Energy: Needs and Barriers for a More Reliable Environmental Impact Balance. GNSS for Rail Transportation 2021, 275 -290.

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Ernesto Antonini. Building’s Operational Versus Embodied Energy: Needs and Barriers for a More Reliable Environmental Impact Balance. GNSS for Rail Transportation. 2021; ():275-290.

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Ernesto Antonini. 2021. "Building’s Operational Versus Embodied Energy: Needs and Barriers for a More Reliable Environmental Impact Balance." GNSS for Rail Transportation , no. : 275-290.

Chapter
Published: 25 September 2020 in Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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This chapter linked the technological strategies fuelling the transition to the circular economy in building sector with the new visions and trajectories of European research. The aim is to highlight possible opportunities to further explore the issues addressed in the previous chapters for the benefit of our readers and the advancement of the discipline. Three topics were identified, which brought together the main theoretical and applicative aspects that were addressed. The first highlights the impact of disruptive technologies that sprawl within the building sector, driven by the overall sustainability target (Sect. 5.1). The second connects the Low-Tech approach in building design to the strategies for remanufacturing that are applied to the whole production processes, aimed at increasing their reversibility (Sect. 5.2), while the third topic focuses on the new requirements of the circular buildings (Sect. 5.3), making them particularly suitable in feeding an innovation dynamic within the sector centred on Low-Tech options.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. Building Strategies for Circular Economy: New Visions and Knowledge Production for European Research. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2020, 153 -172.

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Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri, Francesca Giglio. Building Strategies for Circular Economy: New Visions and Knowledge Production for European Research. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():153-172.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. 2020. "Building Strategies for Circular Economy: New Visions and Knowledge Production for European Research." Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship , no. : 153-172.

Chapter
Published: 25 September 2020 in Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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This chapter provides a documented critical collection of case studies and design experiments of buildings which have technological characteristics and design qualities which allow, regardless of their different uses or intervention contexts, consideration as buildings with a circular potential and are therefore prepared for the transition to the circular economy. The cases have been selected according to three basic issues which characterise each of them: temporariness, Low Tech and circularity. The collection is organized by grouping the cases into three areas which refer to the main scopes affected by the solutions adopted in each case: design, building and living. The use of new materials emerges as the main driver which generates effects within the area of building design (Sect. 4.1). Unconventional resources, often low cost and locally retrieved, lead to a change in architectural languages and push the architects to explore new relationships between building and site. Therefore, reversibility (Sect. 4.2) appears to be the most effective leverage in stimulating innovation within the area of building. The dry connections of the building elements and their consequent easy disassembly at the end of their service life not only change the building process but also affect its environmental profile, by allowing material recovery and recycling, thus increasing resource circularity. Finally, the size and shape of building spaces are the features which most influence the area of living (Sect. 4.3). Some shifts in functional housing design appear to be an actual way towards providing users with acceptable living conditions within the strict social constraints of an emergency. The overall objective of this survey is to highlight the development of new technical and living models in building design and production, triggered by the need to save resources and reduce waste. Since this entails integrating areas of technological innovation within the construction processes, the paths towards circular design emerging from this evolution are also considered this mapping.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. Assessing the Circular Potential: Design, Build, Living Reversible. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2020, 87 -152.

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Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri, Francesca Giglio. Assessing the Circular Potential: Design, Build, Living Reversible. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():87-152.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. 2020. "Assessing the Circular Potential: Design, Build, Living Reversible." Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship , no. : 87-152.

Chapter
Published: 25 September 2020 in Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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This chapter provides a critical review of the technical literature on building solutions for post-disaster emergency response. The review is divided into four sections, each focusing on a relevant aspect relating to the emergency, which is analysed within its disciplinary evolution: technological issues (Sect. 2.1), temporariness (Sect. 2.2), low tech /high tech (Sect. 2.3) and circular economy (Sect. 2.4). The method, which is common to all sections, starts from a recognised definition of each topic, which is then framed within current trends in the building sector, highlighting issues both of strength and weakness. The critical analysis is then extended to three paradigmatic cases of temporary emergency shelters built in developing countries adopting Low-Tech solutions, which are identified as innovative models that can be transferred to other contexts (Sect. 2.5).

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. Technologies for Building After Disaster: A Critical Review. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2020, 27 -58.

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Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri, Francesca Giglio. Technologies for Building After Disaster: A Critical Review. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():27-58.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. 2020. "Technologies for Building After Disaster: A Critical Review." Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship , no. : 27-58.

Chapter
Published: 25 September 2020 in Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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This chapter outlines the theoretical reference framework of the topic, analysing the evolution in notions of emergency, temporariness and innovation recorded in the last century (Sect. 1.1). A review of current scientific literature at European level allowed an increased application of these concepts in emergency interventions in developing countries. Some promising innovation trajectories have thus been identified for Low-Tech construction, as well as many links to circular economy principles. This highlighted the need for a change from linear to circular production processes and, also, in systems of construction in both the scale of the single artefact and of an entire city (Sect. 1.2). When interviewed, by the authors, Richard Douzjian (Sect. 1.3) highlighted both the potential and critical aspects of the topic, due to the Lebanese architect’s significant professional experience in designing post-disaster interventions that experimentally applied alternative Low-Tech materials.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. Building in Emergency: Low-Tech Driven Innovations. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2020, 1 -26.

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Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri, Francesca Giglio. Building in Emergency: Low-Tech Driven Innovations. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():1-26.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. 2020. "Building in Emergency: Low-Tech Driven Innovations." Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship , no. : 1-26.

Chapter
Published: 25 September 2020 in Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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This chapter highlights the implications on the circular economy principles of Low-Tech approach to the building production with reference to available technical literature. These implications are first investigated on a large scale, analysing the potential of Low Tech in policies of Humanitarian Innovation (Sect. 3.1), and then design strategies are addressed, including construction processes which adopt local and unconventional materials. Furthermore, different declinations of circular design are described in regard to design strategies, theories, approaches and principles, in relation to the main circular economy trajectories (Sect. 3.2). Subsequently, experiences and principles concerning reversible building concepts are outlined, addressing the analysis of the notion of reversibility with particular focus on related building process issues (Sect. 3.3). In regard to materials, analysis is provided showing how the notion of “local material” is being extended with respect to its original and more conventional use (Sect. 3.4). An evolution trend is finally drawn, starting from the specifications of humanitarian association guidelines for emergency shelters, up to the use of unconventional materials including temporary buildings in developed countries. The overall aim of the chapter is to show the growing interest in scientific debate for the Low-Tech option as a possible answer to the challenge for a sustainable future within the building sector.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. Beyond Emergency Towards Circular Design: Building Low Tech. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2020, 59 -86.

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Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri, Francesca Giglio. Beyond Emergency Towards Circular Design: Building Low Tech. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():59-86.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. 2020. "Beyond Emergency Towards Circular Design: Building Low Tech." Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship , no. : 59-86.

Journal article
Published: 16 September 2020 in Sustainability
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According to the Circularity Gap Report 2020, a mere 8.6% of the global economy was circular in 2019. The Global Status Report 2018 declares that building construction and operations accounted for 36% of global final energy use and 39% of energy–related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The Paris Agreement demands that the building and construction sector decarbonizes globally by 2050. This requires strategies that minimize the environmental impact of buildings and practices extending the lifecycle of their constituents within a circular resource flow. To ensure that effective measures are applied, a suitable method is needed to assess compliance in materials, processes, and design strategies within circular economy principles. The study’s assumption is that synthetic and reliable indicators for that purpose could be based on reversibility and durability features. The paper provides an overview of building design issues within the circular economy perspective, highlighting the difficulty in finding circular technologies which are suitable to enhance buildings’ service life while closing material loops. The results identify reversibility and durability as potential indicators for assessing circular building technologies. The next research stage aims to further develop the rating of circularity requirements for both building technologies and entire buildings.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Massimo Lauria; Francesca Giglio. Reversibility and Durability as Potential Indicators for Circular Building Technologies. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7659 .

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Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri, Massimo Lauria, Francesca Giglio. Reversibility and Durability as Potential Indicators for Circular Building Technologies. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (18):7659.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Massimo Lauria; Francesca Giglio. 2020. "Reversibility and Durability as Potential Indicators for Circular Building Technologies." Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7659.

Journal article
Published: 03 May 2020 in Energies
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The paper reports a methodology developed to map energy consumption of the building stock at the urban scale on a GIS environment. Energy consumption has been investigated, focusing on the shift from the individual building scale to the district one with the purpose of identifying larger homogenous energy use areas for addressing policies and plans to improve the quality and the performance levels at the city scale. The urban planning zoning concept was extended to the energy issue to include the energy behavior of each zone that depends on the performance of its individual buildings. The methodology generates GIS maps providing a district scale visualization of energy consumption according to shared criteria. A case study in Bologna city (Italy) is provided. In the specific case, the last update of Emilia-Romagna regional urban planning regulation required a mapping action regarding energy efficiency of homogeneous urban portions defined by the General Urban Plan. The main achieved results are (a) a methodology to identify homogeneous areas for analyzing energy consumption; (b) an updated energy map of Bologna Municipality.

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Jacopo Gaspari; Michaela De Giglio; Ernesto Antonini; Vincenzo Vodola. A GIS-Based Methodology for Speedy Energy Efficiency Mapping: A Case Study in Bologna. Energies 2020, 13, 2230 .

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Jacopo Gaspari, Michaela De Giglio, Ernesto Antonini, Vincenzo Vodola. A GIS-Based Methodology for Speedy Energy Efficiency Mapping: A Case Study in Bologna. Energies. 2020; 13 (9):2230.

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Jacopo Gaspari; Michaela De Giglio; Ernesto Antonini; Vincenzo Vodola. 2020. "A GIS-Based Methodology for Speedy Energy Efficiency Mapping: A Case Study in Bologna." Energies 13, no. 9: 2230.

Review
Published: 21 April 2020 in Energies
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While indoor comfort represents a widely investigated research topic with relation to sustainable development and energy-demand reduction in the built environment, outdoor comfort remains an open field of study, especially with reference to the impacts of climate change and the quality of life for inhabitants, particularly in urban contexts. Despite the relevant efforts spent in the last few decades to advance the understanding of phenomena and the knowledge in this specific field, which obtained much evidence for the topic’s relevance, a comprehensive picture of the studies, as well as a classification of the interconnected subjects and outcomes, is still lacking. This paper reports the outcomes of a literature review aimed at screening the available resources dealing with outdoor thermal comfort, in order to provide a state-of-the-art review that identifies the main topics focused by the researchers, as well as the barriers in defining suitable indexes for assessing thermal comfort in outdoor environments. Although several accurate models and software are available to quantify outdoor human comfort, the evocated state of mind of the final user still remains at the core of this uncertain process.

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Ernesto Antonini; Vincenzo Vodola; Jacopo Gaspari; Michaela De Giglio. Outdoor Wellbeing and Quality of Life: A Scientific Literature Review on Thermal Comfort. Energies 2020, 13, 2079 .

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Ernesto Antonini, Vincenzo Vodola, Jacopo Gaspari, Michaela De Giglio. Outdoor Wellbeing and Quality of Life: A Scientific Literature Review on Thermal Comfort. Energies. 2020; 13 (8):2079.

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Ernesto Antonini; Vincenzo Vodola; Jacopo Gaspari; Michaela De Giglio. 2020. "Outdoor Wellbeing and Quality of Life: A Scientific Literature Review on Thermal Comfort." Energies 13, no. 8: 2079.

Book
Published: 01 January 2020 in Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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This book explores the relationship between the circular economy and the building technologies within the quintuple helix innovation model. The main question the book answers is whether and how the conversion of sustainable construction processes can be a powerful engine of innovation for the industry. The post-disaster settlements and temporary shelters are assumed as examples of what can be defined as circular buildings in regards to the technical arrangements and features, material and process reversibility, as the social and participative dimensions.Several cases of these interventions are documented and classified by three thematic axes: design, building and living. This highlighted new trajectories for innovation in building technology, consistent with the social, economic and productive dynamics that no longer allows for growing performance by increasing the resource demand. A theoretic framework is traced supporting this vision, which shows how the low technologies can respond to the transition of the economic model from linear to circular. Within this trajectory, the low-tech design for remanufacturing represents a reference framework and a promising tool applicable to the building processes.The enabling technologies and new paradigms for the transition to circular economy emerging from the European research scenario are also mapped, outlining the possible future developments in line with open technical and societal challenges.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. Emergency Driven Innovation. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2020, 1 .

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Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri, Francesca Giglio. Emergency Driven Innovation. Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 2020; ():1.

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Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri; Francesca Giglio. 2020. "Emergency Driven Innovation." Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2017 in Energy Procedia
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Kristian Fabbri; Antonello Di Nunzio; Jacopo Gaspari; Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri. Outdoor Comfort: The ENVI-BUG tool to Evaluate PMV Values Output Comfort Point by Point. Energy Procedia 2017, 111, 510 -519.

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Kristian Fabbri, Antonello Di Nunzio, Jacopo Gaspari, Ernesto Antonini, Andrea Boeri. Outdoor Comfort: The ENVI-BUG tool to Evaluate PMV Values Output Comfort Point by Point. Energy Procedia. 2017; 111 ():510-519.

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Kristian Fabbri; Antonello Di Nunzio; Jacopo Gaspari; Ernesto Antonini; Andrea Boeri. 2017. "Outdoor Comfort: The ENVI-BUG tool to Evaluate PMV Values Output Comfort Point by Point." Energy Procedia 111, no. : 510-519.

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Published: 01 March 2017 in Energy Procedia
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Stefano Politi; Ernesto Antonini. An Expeditious Method for Comparing Sustainable Rating Systems for Residential Buildings. Energy Procedia 2017, 111, 41 -50.

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Stefano Politi, Ernesto Antonini. An Expeditious Method for Comparing Sustainable Rating Systems for Residential Buildings. Energy Procedia. 2017; 111 ():41-50.

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Stefano Politi; Ernesto Antonini. 2017. "An Expeditious Method for Comparing Sustainable Rating Systems for Residential Buildings." Energy Procedia 111, no. : 41-50.

Conference paper
Published: 24 September 2014 in ECO-ARCHITECTURE 2014
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The recent EU Directives 2010/31 and 2012/27 provide for the standard of nearly zero energy buildings for new constructions, aiming at a better quality...

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Ernesto Antonini; D. Longo; V. Gianfrate. Towards nZEB: modular pre-assembled steel systems for residential buildings. ECO-ARCHITECTURE 2014 2014, 142, 349 -360.

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Ernesto Antonini, D. Longo, V. Gianfrate. Towards nZEB: modular pre-assembled steel systems for residential buildings. ECO-ARCHITECTURE 2014. 2014; 142 ():349-360.

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Ernesto Antonini; D. Longo; V. Gianfrate. 2014. "Towards nZEB: modular pre-assembled steel systems for residential buildings." ECO-ARCHITECTURE 2014 142, no. : 349-360.

Journal article
Published: 31 December 2011 in Procedia Engineering
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Andrea Boeri; Ernesto Antonini; Danila Longo; Rossella Roversi. The Redevelopment of The Heritage of Social Housing in Italy: Survey and Assessment Instruments. The Case Study of Pilastro Neighborhood in Bologna. Procedia Engineering 2011, 21, 997 -1005.

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Andrea Boeri, Ernesto Antonini, Danila Longo, Rossella Roversi. The Redevelopment of The Heritage of Social Housing in Italy: Survey and Assessment Instruments. The Case Study of Pilastro Neighborhood in Bologna. Procedia Engineering. 2011; 21 ():997-1005.

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Andrea Boeri; Ernesto Antonini; Danila Longo; Rossella Roversi. 2011. "The Redevelopment of The Heritage of Social Housing in Italy: Survey and Assessment Instruments. The Case Study of Pilastro Neighborhood in Bologna." Procedia Engineering 21, no. : 997-1005.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2011 in Procedia Engineering
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Our research has led us to develop a method for formulating sustainability strategies for neighborhood rehabilitation. This method is targeted to decision-makers in charge of implementing projects for the regeneration of the built environment at various levels within the urban and building scales. The methods and tools suggested here, which have been tested in collaboration with Comune di Bologna –the Bologna City Council- and ACER Bologna –the local Agency for public housing- make use of both technical/objective parameters and a participative approach to address the environmental and social sustainability requirements of citizens, local policies, and EU indications

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S. Mattarozzi; Ernesto Antonini. Sustainability assessment: An integrated approach with inhabitant participation. Procedia Engineering 2011, 21, 560 -569.

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S. Mattarozzi, Ernesto Antonini. Sustainability assessment: An integrated approach with inhabitant participation. Procedia Engineering. 2011; 21 ():560-569.

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S. Mattarozzi; Ernesto Antonini. 2011. "Sustainability assessment: An integrated approach with inhabitant participation." Procedia Engineering 21, no. : 560-569.

Conference paper
Published: 09 February 2001 in Intelligent Systems and Smart Manufacturing
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The VAMP project (VAlorization of building demolition Materials and Products, LIFE 98/ENV/IT/33) aims to build an effective and innovative information system to support decision making in selective demolition activity and to manage the valorization (recovery-reuse-recycling) of waste flows produced by the construction and demolition (C&D) sector. The VAMP information system will be tested it in Italy in some case studies of selective demolition. In this paper the proposed demolition-valorization system will be compared to the traditional one in a life cycle perspective, applying LCA methodology to highlight the advantages of VAMP system from an eco-sustainability point of view. Within the system boundaries demolition processes, transport of demolition wastes and its recovery/treatment or disposal in landfill were included. Processes avoided due to reuse-recycling activities, such as extraction of natural resources and manufacture of building materials and components, were considered too. In this paper data collection procedure applied in inventory and impact assessment phases and a general overview about data availability for LCA studies in this sector are presented. Results of application of VAMP methodology to a case study are discussed and compared with a simulated traditional demolition of the same building. Environmental advantages of VAMP demolition-valorization system are demonstrated quantitatively emphasizing the special importance of reuse of building components with high demand of energy for manufacture.

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Balazs Sara; Ernesto Antonini; Mario Tarantini. Application of life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology for valorization of building demolition materials and products. Intelligent Systems and Smart Manufacturing 2001, 382 -390.

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Balazs Sara, Ernesto Antonini, Mario Tarantini. Application of life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology for valorization of building demolition materials and products. Intelligent Systems and Smart Manufacturing. 2001; ():382-390.

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Balazs Sara; Ernesto Antonini; Mario Tarantini. 2001. "Application of life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology for valorization of building demolition materials and products." Intelligent Systems and Smart Manufacturing , no. : 382-390.