Decision-making approaches for optimal seismic/energy integrated retrofitting of existing buildings

Frontiers in Built Environment

Built Environment

Martina Caruso¹  Rui Pinho¹  Rita Couto²  Ricardo Monteiro³ 

[1] Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy;University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS), Pavia, Italy;University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS), Pavia, Italy;Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal;

关键词: building renovation;    seismic loss assessment;    energy performance assessment;    environmental impact;    optimal retrofitting strategies;    multi-criteria decision-making;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fbuil.2023.1176515

 received in 2023-02-28, accepted in 2023-07-31,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Given the ambitious targets of carbon emission reduction set for the very near future, it is now expected that retrofitting operations on existing buildings aim both at reducing their operational energy consumption and at improving their seismic performance. Indeed, it is now well acknowledged that, if a sole energy efficiency upgrade is provided to a given building, in case of an earthquake occurrence, double economic and environmental losses will be experienced due to both the lost investment for energy retrofitting and the repair and retrofitting activities for post-earthquake damage. Moreover, social losses may also be experienced in terms of casualties, injured or homeless due to the seismic and structural deficiencies of the existing structure. To aid thus the process of a coupled seismic/energy renovation of the existing building stock, several multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches have been developed for the identification of optimal retrofitting solutions for buildings. Such procedures typically consider a range of economic, social, technical, and, more recently, environmental aspects that are assumed to be of interest to decision makers (e.g., installation cost, duration of works, architectural impact, need for specialised workers, etc.). The present study demonstrates the application to a case-study school building of two different MCDM approaches, which account for seismic vulnerability and energy efficiency, as well as related environmental impacts of buildings. The main differences between the two procedures are explored in terms of considered decision-making parameters and corresponding weights, rankings of retrofitting options and identification of the optimal retrofitting strategies.

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