The Energy Audit Activity Focused on the Lighting Systems in Historical Buildings

The energy audit for a building is a procedure designed mainly to obtain adequate knowledge of the energy consumption profile, identify, and quantify opportunities for energy savings by a cost-benefit analysis and report, clearly and comprehensively, about the obtained results. If the audit is refer...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2016-12, Vol.9 (12), p.998
Main Authors: Salvadori, Giacomo, Fantozzi, Fabio, Rocca, Michele, Leccese, Francesco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Audits
Case studies
Compatibility
energy audit
Energy audits
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy management
energy saving
Evaluation
Historic sites
Historical buildings
lamps replacement
Lighting
lighting systems
Offices
Public buildings
Refurbishment
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Summary:The energy audit for a building is a procedure designed mainly to obtain adequate knowledge of the energy consumption profile, identify, and quantify opportunities for energy savings by a cost-benefit analysis and report, clearly and comprehensively, about the obtained results. If the audit is referred to a building with a significant historical and artistic value, a compatibility evaluation of the energy saving interventions with the architectural features should also be developed. In this paper, analysing the case study of a historical building used as public offices in Pisa (Italy), the authors describe how it is possible to conduct an energy audit activity (especially dedicated to the lighting system) and they show how, for this type of buildings, it is possible to obtain significant energy savings with a refurbishment of the lighting system. A total number of seven interventions on indoor and outdoor lighting sub-systems were analysed in the paper. They are characterised by absolute compatibility with the historical and artistic value of the building and they show short payback times, variable between 4 and 34 months, allowing a reduction of the electrical energy consumption for the artificial indoor and outdoor lighting variable from 1.1 MWh/year to 39.0 MWh/year. The followed methodology and the evaluation results described in the paper, although based on a case study, can be extended to numerous historical buildings used as public offices, a recurring situation in the centres of Italian historical cities.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en9120998