International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation: Volume 37 Issue 3

Low-cost retrofit packages for residential buildings in hot-humid Lagos, Nigeria

Nwakaego Chikaodinaka Onyenokporo, Ekele Thompson Ochedi

The purpose of this paper is to develop a set of affordable retrofit packages that can be applied to existing residential buildings in hot-humid regions to improve occupants’…

Review of methods for evaluating adaptability of buildings

Zoraya Roldán Rockow, Brandon Ross, Anna K. Black

The purpose of this paper is to present a review of existing models and tools for evaluating the adaptability of buildings. A baseline of the current state of the art in…

The drivers and challenges of improving the energy efficiency performance of listed pre-1919 housing

Maria Rispoli, Samantha Organ

Concerns about climate change and the availability of energy has resulted in countries setting targets to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. A large proportion…

Historical buildings’ energy conservation potentialities: A methodology focused on building operation

Giorgia Spigliantini, Valentina Fabi, Marcel Schweiker, Stefano Corgnati

Today, about 30 per cent of European existing buildings can be entitled as “historical buildings”. Nowadays, their energy retrofit is important to reach the ambitious European CO₂…

An Integrated Computerised Maintenance Management System (I-CMMS) for IBS building maintenance

Zul-Atfi Ismail

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of an integrated computerised maintenance management system to improve the information storage of design and construction…

Retrofit modelling of existing dwellings in the UK: the Salford Energy House case study

Yingchun Ji, Angela Lee, William Swan

There is a clear consensus that improving energy efficiency of existing housing stock is necessary to meet the UK’s legally binding carbon emission targets by 2050. The purpose of…