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New Challenges for Building Renovation Management through a Life Cycle Perspective

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 6340

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jorge Lopes

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Department of Construction and Planning, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, 5300-253 Bragança, Portugal
Interests: construction macroeconomics; capital stock valuation; economic and financial analysis; project management; sustainability
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Dr. Rui Oliveira

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Department of Construction and Planning, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
Interests: project management; construction management; building retrofitting; life cycle assessment; sustainability
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The 2018 Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires Member States to develop renovation strategies to make Europe’s buildings highly energy efficient and decarbonised by 2050. The EPBD calls for ‘policies and actions to stimulate cost-effective deep renovation of buildings, including staged deep renovation’. Staged (or step-by-step) renovations are by far the most popular in many European countries, and both the EPBD recast and the EU´s Renovation Wave strategy reference staged renovation as a suitable approach to energy renovation of buildings. The main rationale behind this approach is that it allows flexibility in the identification of the situations in a building´s life cycle that trigger energy retrofit analysis and, consequently, decision making. This strategy is in line with the notions of a building renovation passport (BRP), which was developed within the European Horizon 2020 funded iPRoad project, and the French initiative ‘BBC par étape’ promoted by Le Collectif Effinergy organisation. That is, this roadmap needs to be planned and conducted in a manner that is compatible with future deep renovation targets.

The main aim of this Special Issue is to highlight major research challenges that explore the balance between economic drivers and sustainability issues in each renovation step of the building’s life cycle. Research may include, but is not limited to, the following topics:

  • Country studies on the barriers and opportunities concerning the implementation of building renovation passports;
  • Economic and environmental analyses of building interventions, conducted with a staged renovation approach;
  • Models of financing mechanisms (including bundled public finance);
  • Procurement practices;
  • Replacement policies of building components and equipment;
  • Integrating existing building instruments and digital data in the development of building renovation roadmaps;
  • Occupants’ behaviors and attitudes and their impact on the building renovation process.

Dr. Jorge Lopes
Dr. Rui Oliveira
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • building’s life cycle
  • building renovation
  • building renovation passport
  • economic analysis
  • environmental analysis
  • financing mechanisms
  • management
  • staged renovation

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Exploring the Potential of iPad-LiDAR Technology for Building Renovation Diagnosis: A Case Study
by Pedro Mêda, Diego Calvetti and Hipólito Sousa
Buildings 2023, 13(2), 456; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020456 - 07 Feb 2023
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Digitalization and sustainability are twin trends in the construction industry (CI). Mobile devices are becoming more and more powerful, gaining the ability to support tasks that, until recently, were unthinkable. One example is LiDAR. The use of this technology embedded in tablets and [...] Read more.
Digitalization and sustainability are twin trends in the construction industry (CI). Mobile devices are becoming more and more powerful, gaining the ability to support tasks that, until recently, were unthinkable. One example is LiDAR. The use of this technology embedded in tablets and smartphones brings new possibilities at a scan-to-BIM level. Given the commitment to circularity, waste audits will become mandatory for renovation projects. This is a heavy task that can benefit from existing processes and from digital technologies. This paper aims to demonstrate how everything is related and can be efficiently combined. The research convenes digital transition, green transition, circular economy, waste audit, LiDAR, and design processes’ improvement. A mixed-methods approach aims to demonstrate how it is possible to establish digital waste audits and how these can become the core of the diagnosis process to be made during strategic definition or as part of the renovation design’s initial actions. LiDAR technology embedded in mobile devices is worthy and can bring major improvements to the diagnosis phase. This will become more compliant with objectives set for digitalization and improved sustainability, contributing to the sector’s twin digital and green transitions. Full article
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Identifying Key Information on Life Cycle of Engineering Data by Graph Convolutional Networks and Data Mining
by Lijing Ren and Denghui Zhang
Buildings 2022, 12(8), 1105; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12081105 - 27 Jul 2022
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Engineering data, including product data-conversion networks and software dependency networks, are very important for the long-term preservation of product information. With the explosive growth of data in recent years, product information has become increasingly diversified and complex, which poses new challenges to the [...] Read more.
Engineering data, including product data-conversion networks and software dependency networks, are very important for the long-term preservation of product information. With the explosive growth of data in recent years, product information has become increasingly diversified and complex, which poses new challenges to the long-term preservation of product data. A better understanding of the functions of complex networks can help us take more effective measures to maintain and control such complex systems, and then adopt more effective methods to achieve life cycle management. It is currently difficult for traditional heuristic methods to deal with such large-scale complex systems. In recent years, however, the use of graph neural networks to identify key nodes attracted widespread attention, but this requires a large amount of training data. It is difficult to obtain large-scale relational data and establish identification models in engineering fields. Combining a graph convolution network with a data-mining method, a key node identification method in a graph convolution network based on data mining is proposed. The method first determines the type of complex network according to the power-law distribution and centrality of the network and then uses the corresponding evolutionary model to generate a large-scale synthetic network to effectively train the model. The experimental results from two real networks show that this method improves the identification performance of key nodes by using synthetic data with the same characteristics as the real network, and provides a new perspective for product life cycle management. Full article
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From a Techno-Economic towards a Socio-Technical Approach—A Review of the Influences and Policies on Home Energy Renovations’ Decisions
by Maria Isabel Abreu, Andreia Pereira and Helena Gervásio
Buildings 2023, 13(3), 761; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13030761 - 14 Mar 2023
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Over the past decades, the debate on how to encourage energy efficiency in existing homes has been guided by a technic-economic model that has a strong focus on technologies and cost savings, in which human behavior has been devalued to a narrow behavioral [...] Read more.
Over the past decades, the debate on how to encourage energy efficiency in existing homes has been guided by a technic-economic model that has a strong focus on technologies and cost savings, in which human behavior has been devalued to a narrow behavioral economics overview. While this specific area of behavioral science enabled to capture of the dimension of energy renovations as a problem of homeowners’ individual choice, the collective and social aspects of energy efficiency are still largely overlooked on the energy policy agenda. With its emphasis on how social structures interpenetrate individual actions, social sciences offer additional insights that go beyond the identification of barrier-drivers underlying investment choices and also help to identify positive opportunities for renovation within the conditions of domestic and social life. Until recently, comprehensive behavioral aspects and the social dimension of home energy renovation have been ignored in policy initiatives, and the integration of complementary disciplines is only in its early stages. Based on a broad literature review, this paper aims to provide an up-to-date interdisciplinary perspective of the theoretical evolutionary background, which has been the support to gradually redefine and address the problems associated with energy improvements in homes. Full article
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