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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.
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 .
AMA StyleLaura 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura 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.
Green roofs are components of the building envelope that have become increasingly popular in urban contexts because other than providing numerous environmental benefits they are also capable of reducing building energy consumption, especially in summer. However, despite all these advantages, green roofs are still affected by some limitations. Specifically, there are some gaps affecting the energy modelling consisting in the absence of a proper database, information (growth stage, leaf area index, and coverage ratio) relative to the different green roof plant species, which technicians could use in case of lack of actual field data to perform energy analysis of buildings equipped with green roofs. These gaps concern also environmental and economic assessments of such technology. In fact, the currently available green roof LCA and LCC studies seem to underestimate the role of the substrate on the overall environmental impact and the role of the disposal phase on the life cycle cost of the green roof. In this chapter, all these aspects are addressed, and contributions to their solution, which arose from both experimental and modelling research, carried out by the authors are presented.
Laura Cirrincione; Giorgia Peri. Covering the Gap for an Effective Energy and Environmental Design of Green Roofs: Contributions from Experimental and Modelling Researches. Future City 2021, 149 -167.
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Giorgia Peri. Covering the Gap for an Effective Energy and Environmental Design of Green Roofs: Contributions from Experimental and Modelling Researches. Future City. 2021; ():149-167.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Giorgia Peri. 2021. "Covering the Gap for an Effective Energy and Environmental Design of Green Roofs: Contributions from Experimental and Modelling Researches." Future City , no. : 149-167.
The tourist sector, despite the present severe constraints imposed by the sanitary emergence, can be considered as an important component of almost all countries’ economies. In Italy agriturism, in particular, has been experiences a continuously rising trend in recent years. Clearly, such great interest towards these businesses also calls for a deep attention by an energy point of view, in sight of an energy efficiency improvement, hence a lowering of the pressure that such facilities exert to the natural environment. On the other hand, the European Union has been engaged, for a long time, in awarding the tourist accommodations environmental excellence brands, like the EU Ecolabel. Unfortunately, the achievement of such excellence brands requires the capability of managing complex energy and environmental data, which is often not the prerogative of people running such facilities. In order of contributing to overcome this difficulty, and with the aim of helping the addressing of agritourism towards a Nearly Zero Energy path, we propose here a simple approach that does not require the modelling and simulation of the energy behaviour of an agritourism, being essentially based on the application of easy-to-use ARERA (Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy Networks and Environment) datasheets scheme. On purpose, an application of the method, involving two typical Sicilian agritourism, is presented. The obtained results showed the viability of the proposed methodology, although the need of an update and/or replacement of some technical datasheets arose.
Laura Cirrincione; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Leading agritourism facilities along Nearly Zero Energy paths: proposal of an easy-to-use evaluation method. E3S Web of Conferences 2020, 197, 02004 .
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Leading agritourism facilities along Nearly Zero Energy paths: proposal of an easy-to-use evaluation method. E3S Web of Conferences. 2020; 197 ():02004.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Leading agritourism facilities along Nearly Zero Energy paths: proposal of an easy-to-use evaluation method." E3S Web of Conferences 197, no. : 02004.
PV/T panels are innovative systems increasingly used in the building sector. As a matter of fact, in that context they allow a set of common problems to be addressed and often solved: lack of physical space and economic issues, always existing when PV and thermal panels are to be installed separately. Obviously, the main objective of PV/T panels is to enhance the electrical efficiency by cooling the PV cells, but the side positive effect is also the production of thermal energy, which can be suitably exploited with a proper configuration of the whole system and an appropriate design of its components. Their energy production and overall efficiency depend on several factors and therefore the effect of different system features should be investigated. In this work, a parametric analysis was performed to provide a contribution on this topic. The effects of the characteristics of the thermal storage on electrical and thermal system performances were analysed, also considering the influence of the thermal load magnitude. The conclusive considerations can be exploited by designers and researchers to maximize the efficiency of the systems in relation to the storage tank characteristics and both electrical and thermal loads.
Laura Cirrincione; Cristina Malara; Concettina Marino; Antonino Nucara; Giorgia Peri; Matilde Pietrafesa. Effect of the thermal storage dimensions on the performances of solar photovoltaic-thermal systems. Renewable Energy 2020, 162, 2004 -2018.
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Cristina Malara, Concettina Marino, Antonino Nucara, Giorgia Peri, Matilde Pietrafesa. Effect of the thermal storage dimensions on the performances of solar photovoltaic-thermal systems. Renewable Energy. 2020; 162 ():2004-2018.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Cristina Malara; Concettina Marino; Antonino Nucara; Giorgia Peri; Matilde Pietrafesa. 2020. "Effect of the thermal storage dimensions on the performances of solar photovoltaic-thermal systems." Renewable Energy 162, no. : 2004-2018.
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.
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 .
AMA StyleLaura 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura 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.
Green roofs are building components that have become increasingly common in urban contexts because other than the general improvement of the aesthetics of the buildings equipped with them, they have demonstrated to positively improve the building energy performance. Consequently, it would be useful for technicians to have easy and reliable indicators to achieve a synthetic quantitative judgement about the effectiveness of green roofs by an energy perspective compared to others building envelope technologies, for different climates. In sight of the definition of such an indicator, or at least of its properties, some considerations aimed at this purpose, especially concerning the use of new climatic indicators instead of the commonly used ones (i.e. heating and cooling degree days), are presented here.
Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Considerations about an indicator aimed at describing the energy efficiency of buildings with innovative envelope components at different climatic conditions. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) 2020, 1 -6.
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Considerations about an indicator aimed at describing the energy efficiency of buildings with innovative envelope components at different climatic conditions. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). 2020; ():1-6.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Considerations about an indicator aimed at describing the energy efficiency of buildings with innovative envelope components at different climatic conditions." 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) , no. : 1-6.
The reduction of the environmental impacts related to the building sector is a matter of outmost importance concerning the sustainable utilization of resources related to human activities. Such sector is in fact responsible for about 40% of both release of pollutants in the atmosphere and energy consumption. When trying to reduce buildings’ environmental impacts, as well as to limit their energy consumption, building envelope passive systems can be used. Amongst these, green roofs have been gaining global attention due to their benefits in terms of resilience and sustainability, in order to mitigate the unfavourable urbanization effects. Research on the green roof has been indeed increasingly raising in recent years. Although the subject of green roofs has been dealt with extensively from many different points of view, there are currently some limits on which improvements can be made. In particular, the aim of the present work is to consider a somewhat overlooked aspect regarding green roofs, which is the overall energy- environmental impact of such building component. The present work reports the results of a case study conducted on a Sicilian building sited in the Department of Engineering of the University of Palermo, where the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has been applied.
Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Concettina Marino; Antonino Nucara; Antonino Marvuglia; Giorgia Peri. Passive components for reducing environmental impacts of buildings:analysis of an experimental green roof. 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON) 2020, 494 -499.
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Maria La Gennusa, Concettina Marino, Antonino Nucara, Antonino Marvuglia, Giorgia Peri. Passive components for reducing environmental impacts of buildings:analysis of an experimental green roof. 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON). 2020; ():494-499.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Concettina Marino; Antonino Nucara; Antonino Marvuglia; Giorgia Peri. 2020. "Passive components for reducing environmental impacts of buildings:analysis of an experimental green roof." 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON) , no. : 494-499.
Coconut fibre insulators, represent an insulating material considered as “exotic”, which clashes with the doubts of his thermo-hygrometric behavior, in particular, in the case of covering technology such as green roofs, a technological solution adopted in the case of sustainable buildings or nearly zero energy building. Green roofs represent a valid constructive solution with high thermal performances, adopted in existing and new buildings. The purpose of the research regards the study of the thermo-hygrometric behavior of the concrete and Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) slabs, insulated with coconut fibre-boards (CF) such as alternative synthetic insulators, referred to 10 different green roofs scenarios. The results show that coconut fibre insulations are equally comparable to natural and synthetic materials, and their doubts for their applications, also in the green roofs, are related to technological solutions for the implementation in the market and their diffusion between the buildings materials.
Kristian Fabbri; Lamberto Tronchin; Fabrizio Barbieri; Francesca Merli; Massimiliano Manfren; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Laura Cirrincione; Maria Francesca Panzera. On the hygrothermal behavior of coconuts fiber insulators on green roofs. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) 2020, 1 -6.
AMA StyleKristian Fabbri, Lamberto Tronchin, Fabrizio Barbieri, Francesca Merli, Massimiliano Manfren, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Laura Cirrincione, Maria Francesca Panzera. On the hygrothermal behavior of coconuts fiber insulators on green roofs. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). 2020; ():1-6.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKristian Fabbri; Lamberto Tronchin; Fabrizio Barbieri; Francesca Merli; Massimiliano Manfren; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Laura Cirrincione; Maria Francesca Panzera. 2020. "On the hygrothermal behavior of coconuts fiber insulators on green roofs." 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) , no. : 1-6.
Current policies addressing the energy efficiency of buildings aimed at the control of their overall primary energy demand, require not only that the edifice envelope has to be properly designed to optimize its thermal performances, but also that the eco-friendly properties of the involved building materials have to be properly taken into account, in order of assessing all the associated environmental costs. In fact, the design of envelope structures that are able to realize proper levels of thermal insulation and, in the same time, to employ materials characterized by low environmental impacts, are believed as the most effective strategies to be adopted in the aim of addressing the above-mentioned issues. In this regard natural materials, such as vegetal fibres or materials derived from the recycling of industrial/ agricultural waste, reveal very attractive characteristics. Indeed, recent studies on the use of natural materials in buildings concentrate on raw materials deriving from either agriculture, waste, or recycling processes. Such topics are the focuses of the present analysis. Specifically, this paper intends to provide a contribution in the field by identifying new types of environment-friendly composites, containing vegetal matters and ecological waste resulting from recycling activities. Outcomes of a series of performed laboratory analyses concerning the thermal conductivity of four different samples of assemblies, are quite promising and candidate these new composites – albeit further analyses are certainly recommended – as a practicable alternative to the mostly used traditional insulating materials.
Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Concettina Marino; Antonino Nucara; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Retrofitting existing buildings by means of innovative envelope components: low-impacting new assemblies. 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON) 2020, 500 -505.
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Maria La Gennusa, Concettina Marino, Antonino Nucara, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Retrofitting existing buildings by means of innovative envelope components: low-impacting new assemblies. 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON). 2020; ():500-505.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Concettina Marino; Antonino Nucara; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Retrofitting existing buildings by means of innovative envelope components: low-impacting new assemblies." 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON) , no. : 500-505.
Despite the increasing concern of institutions and technical organizations toward the improvement of the building energy (and, therefore, environmental) efficiency, the main goal of technicians should be also devoted toward the levels of internal thermal comfort that buildings are able to realize. As that, the relationships between energy performances and comfort conditions provided by the enclosures are of paramount importance in guiding designers in their work. In this paper, the influence of diverse roof construction typologies on energy and indoor performance of buildings has been investigated, in different Italian sites during heating and cooling seasons. In addition, it must be properly considered that buildings operate in given climate and weather contexts that deeply affect their performances. Hence, for taking into account the different weather conditions of each site, a new parameter has been used, that is the "Climatic Severity Index" corresponding to a value of magnitude of a climatic vector less a constant value, recently released by an Italian technical standard. The actions for improving the energy efficiency sometimes lead to a reduction of indoor comfort, therefore, not always easily applicable.
Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Comparing indoor performances of a building equipped with four different roof configurations in 65 Italian sites. 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON) 2020, 488 -493.
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Comparing indoor performances of a building equipped with four different roof configurations in 65 Italian sites. 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON). 2020; ():488-493.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Comparing indoor performances of a building equipped with four different roof configurations in 65 Italian sites." 2020 IEEE 20th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference ( MELECON) , no. : 488-493.
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.
AMA StyleMatilde 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMatilde 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.
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.
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 .
AMA StyleLaura 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura 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.
Laura Cirrincione; Antonino Nucara; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Two operative risk indicators as tools for negotiating contracts between curators of Museums and HVAC technical services providers. Journal of Cultural Heritage 2020, 41, 200 -210.
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Antonino Nucara, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Two operative risk indicators as tools for negotiating contracts between curators of Museums and HVAC technical services providers. Journal of Cultural Heritage. 2020; 41 ():200-210.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Antonino Nucara; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Two operative risk indicators as tools for negotiating contracts between curators of Museums and HVAC technical services providers." Journal of Cultural Heritage 41, no. : 200-210.
The improvement of the energy efficiency of building stocks represents an important contribution for the reduction of the energy consumption in the European Union (EU), along with the decrease of greenhouse gases emissions. In this aim both the public administrations and the technical experts need reliable calculation methodology to assess buildings’ energy performance. In this framework, despite the recent publication of the Standard EN ISO 52016, that deeply modifies the approach to the energy building simulation by introducing a new hourly dynamic calculation model, the current normative framework (EN ISO 13790) will maintain its validity until the incorporation of the new Standard in the national Standards and Decrees (such as the Italian Standard UNI/TS 11300-1) will take place. The aim of this paper is comparing the suitability of the simulation approaches proposed by the above-cited Standards in relation to their different levels of complexity and to the levels of details of the results provided by them. On purpose, a case study in which the energy behaviour of a public building, sited in the Sicilian city of Trapani in the South of Italy, will be analysed and the results of the simulations conducted according to the aforementioned Standards will be compared considering the outcomes of the EnergyPlus software as reference values.
Laura Cirrincione; Antonino Marvuglia; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. The European standards for energy efficiency in buildings: An analysis of the evolution with reference to a case study. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATERIAL SCIENCE, SMART STRUCTURES AND APPLICATIONS: ICMSS-2019 2019, 2191, 020049 .
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Antonino Marvuglia, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. The European standards for energy efficiency in buildings: An analysis of the evolution with reference to a case study. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATERIAL SCIENCE, SMART STRUCTURES AND APPLICATIONS: ICMSS-2019. 2019; 2191 (1):020049.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Antonino Marvuglia; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2019. "The European standards for energy efficiency in buildings: An analysis of the evolution with reference to a case study." SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATERIAL SCIENCE, SMART STRUCTURES AND APPLICATIONS: ICMSS-2019 2191, no. 1: 020049.
This paper reports the strategy implemented by the Palermo University (Italy) aimed at fostering the energy performance of its campus, particularly towards financing energy saving measures. The basic idea is that the money saved through the energy efficiency actions, constitute the main flywheel to fund further savings and energy efficiency interventions. Results of this paper might bring a useful contribution to the energy planning of cities, since campuses may be regarded as emblematic case study of what can be done in cities because they reproduce, at a little scale, the functioning of wider urban contexts.
Fabio Bisegna; Laura Cirrincione; Barbara Maini Lo Casto; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino. Fostering the energy efficiency through the energy savings: the case of the University of Palermo. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2019 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) 2019, 1 -6.
AMA StyleFabio Bisegna, Laura Cirrincione, Barbara Maini Lo Casto, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Giancarlo Sorrentino. Fostering the energy efficiency through the energy savings: the case of the University of Palermo. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2019 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). 2019; ():1-6.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFabio Bisegna; Laura Cirrincione; Barbara Maini Lo Casto; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino. 2019. "Fostering the energy efficiency through the energy savings: the case of the University of Palermo." 2019 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2019 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) , no. : 1-6.
Laura Cirrincione; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Michael Scrudato; Matilde Pietrafesa; Gianfranco Rizzo. Tunnel fire active protection: improving ventilation system. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2019, 1224, 1 .
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Michael Scrudato, Matilde Pietrafesa, Gianfranco Rizzo. Tunnel fire active protection: improving ventilation system. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2019; 1224 ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Michael Scrudato; Matilde Pietrafesa; Gianfranco Rizzo. 2019. "Tunnel fire active protection: improving ventilation system." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1224, no. : 1.
The general aim of this paper is that to further deepen and elaborate the results obtained in a previous study of the authors, in which the relationship between the characteristics of five different types of LED lamps and the humans non-image-forming reactions were investigated, by conducting a more detailed statistical analysis and by highlighting the neurological aspects.
Laura Cirrincione; Roberto Macaluso; Mauro Mosca; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Silvia Costanzo. Study of Influence of the LED Technologies on Visual and Subjective/Individual Aspects. 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.
AMA StyleLaura Cirrincione, Roberto Macaluso, Mauro Mosca, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Silvia Costanzo. Study of Influence of the LED Technologies on Visual and Subjective/Individual Aspects. 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Cirrincione; Roberto Macaluso; Mauro Mosca; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Silvia Costanzo. 2018. "Study of Influence of the LED Technologies on Visual and Subjective/Individual Aspects." 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.
The general aim of the experimental study, presented in this paper, was that to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of five different types of LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamps, which are nowadays those allowing the highest energy consumption reduction, and the humans non image-forming (NIF) reactions.
Maria La Gennusa; Roberto Macaluso; Mauro Mosca; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Fabio Massaro; Laura Cirrincione. An experimental study on relationship between LED lamp characteristics and non image-forming. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2017 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) 2017, 1 -6.
AMA StyleMaria La Gennusa, Roberto Macaluso, Mauro Mosca, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Fabio Massaro, Laura Cirrincione. An experimental study on relationship between LED lamp characteristics and non image-forming. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2017 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe). 2017; ():1-6.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria La Gennusa; Roberto Macaluso; Mauro Mosca; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Fabio Massaro; Laura Cirrincione. 2017. "An experimental study on relationship between LED lamp characteristics and non image-forming." 2017 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2017 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe) , no. : 1-6.