Print Email Facebook Twitter Renovating Italy Title Renovating Italy: The economic and socio-environmental impacts of energy renovation strategies for the Italian residential building stock Author Colloricchio, Alex (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Dias Rodrigues, J.F. (mentor) Itard, L.C.M. (mentor) Sandberg, N.H. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of TechnologyUniversiteit Leiden Programme Industrial Ecology Date 2019-05-07 Abstract Buildings are a central element in our everyday private and social life, meeting some of our most basic needs such as shelter, sanitation and easy access to energy. However, these comforts do not come without a cost: European buildings alone consume 40% of the total final energy and are responsible for 36% of all CO2 emission. In Italy, 60% of the residential building stock was built before the first national law on energy efficiency and in fact some 25% of it can be considered as being highly energy inefficient. In 30 years, many of these buildings will still be standing and this threatens to lock-in the Italian residential sector on its historical emission pathways.... To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:72f17d49-c9cd-40dd-ac6c-d72c9e2c1e93 Bibliographical note The Master's programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Alex Colloricchio Files PDF Colloricchio_Alex_thesis.pdf 4.2 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:72f17d49-c9cd-40dd-ac6c-d72c9e2c1e93/datastream/OBJ/view