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Occupants’ Perception Of Historical Buildings’ Indoor Environment. Two Case Studies., Giorgia Spigliantini, Valentina Fabi, Marcel Schweiker, Stefano Paolo Corgnati Sep 2018

Occupants’ Perception Of Historical Buildings’ Indoor Environment. Two Case Studies., Giorgia Spigliantini, Valentina Fabi, Marcel Schweiker, Stefano Paolo Corgnati

International Building Physics Conference 2018

In Europe, some historical cities have more than 50% of buildings dated from before 1920. Nowadays, these buildings faces challenges when adapted to the current necessities of livability, environmental and economical sustainability. Literature demonstrates that occupants’ comfort perception and consequent behavior affect buildings’ energy efficiency and are influenced also by the building configuration. Despite a large number of studies in literature investigating occupants’ behavior and comfort in different situations, there is a lack of such studies for historical buildings. Therefore, the objective of this paper was to characterize occupants’ thermal and comfort perception in two historical buildings during summer season. …


Thermal And Mycological Active Protection Of Historic Buildings On The Example Of The Baroque Residence Of Polish Kings In Wilanów, Robert Wójcik, Piotr Kosiński Sep 2018

Thermal And Mycological Active Protection Of Historic Buildings On The Example Of The Baroque Residence Of Polish Kings In Wilanów, Robert Wójcik, Piotr Kosiński

International Building Physics Conference 2018

Protection of the external partitions of historic buildings is a broad topic due to the limited possibilities of interfering with the structure. Restoration restrictions on prevention in the mycological protection of historic buildings are so large that, from the broad list of possible protective measures, practically only the heating of the nodes and the control of air parameters are practically safe. The reason for restrictions is the lack of possibility of introducing architectural changes and the limited possibility of interfering into the structure of external partitions. A fast method that uses fluorescence was used for quantitative assessment of the mycelium …