Título del libro: Routledge Handbook Of Sustainable Heritage
Título del capítulo: Balancing heritage values, thermal comfort and energy efficiency in world heritage sites: The case of Mexico City
KRISANGELLA SOFIA MURILLO CAMACHO;
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Año de publicación:
2022
Resumen:
This chapter advances our limited knowledge on how residents of historic buildings make decisions on energy efficiency improvements. More specifically, the chapter looks at the dynamic interconnection between ?heritage values? attributed to residences in the world heritage Historic Centre of Mexico City and to the inhabitants? needs to improve thermal comfort and energy performance. In recent years, there is a growing interest in Mexico in retrofitting buildings and regulating energy efficiency. The United Nations Environment Programme for Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative showed that buildings alone generate 12% of Mexico?s CO2 equivalent. It further noted that there would be an increase of greenhouse gas emissions by a factor of 6.7 by 2050 without action taken to address the problem (UNEP-SBCI, 2007). Despite this growing interest, the way its regulations are implemented is complicated by a process that does not take into account the way that people who live and work in heritage buildings decide how they improve their energy efficiency. This chapter illustrates how users of five historic residential buildings in Mexico City make decisions about energy efficiency with the ultimate goal of improving thermal comfort and reducing energy consumption. The study consists of five in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the buildings? occupants, whose internal environmental conditions were also monitored. The participants assigned social and cultural values to their buildings to determine the features they would be willing to change, compromise or maintain while endeavouring to improve the energy performance of their buildings. The chapter concludes with the premise that the implementation of any energy efficiency strategy requires an in-depth understanding of such values if a historic building?s heritage value is to be sustained. © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Kalliopi Fouseki, May Cassar, Guillaume Dreyfuss and Kelvin Ang Kah Eng; individual chapters, the contributors.
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9781000594850
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Taylor and Francis Nombre de la publicación:
Balancing heritage values, thermal comfort and energy efficiency in world heritage sites: The case of Mexico City
Página inicial:
305
Página final:
322
