3 weeks ago - Renovation, retrofit, and refurbishment ... ongoing life. Often retrofit involves modifications to existing commercial buildings that may improve energy efficiency or decrease energy demand....
3 weeks ago - The International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology (ICAST), through support received from the Department of Energys Commercial Buildings Integration program and its Solutions to Improve the Energy Efficiency of Small and Medium Buildings funding, is working to expand deep retrofitting within the small commercial apartment property market.
- This study analyzed the building ... using retrofit systems with phase change materials (PCMs). The apartment type, building orientation, and height are considered to evaluate the implementation of an innovative PCM system. The building models selected were a flat-type apartment and tower-type apartment. According to the results, building orientation, height floor, and climate factors have a complex correlation ...
- "...Whether converting a historic building into affordable housing units that dont rely on fossil fuels, or transforming existing affordable housing to be more energy efficient, green renovations have created an opportunity for designers and developers of multifamily homes to get creative, spurring them to work with what theyve got, rather than starting from scratch.
As we can see from the illustration, Retrofitting Existing Apartment Complexes has many fascinating aspects to explore.
- Improving the pre-existing architecture can bring significant environmental and economic benefits The Grand Parc is a mass housing complex characteristic of 20th century architecture, a concrete construction erected at scale and vilified as the symbol of social challenges. Such modernistic apartment buildings were originally built to address housing shortages after the Second World War.
- Apartment soft-story retrofits are now critical for older buildings that were constructed before modern seismic codes addressed major earthquake forces. If your property has tuck-under parking or an open ground floor, its probably a soft-story building.
- Energy cost reductions achieved by better building quality cannot compensate for the initial renovation costs (passive retrofitting). Multi-apartment buildings comprise almost half of the European housing stock and are for the most part old and energy inefficient, making active retrofitting an important topic.
