Monitoring Indicators of the Building Envelope for the Optimisation of the Refurbishment Processes

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Despina K. Serghides, Stella Dimitriou, Martha C. Katafygiotou, Chryso Chatzinikola

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Climate change is the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race. The building sector in Europe is responsible for an estimated 40% of the total energy consumption. Therefore, the energy efficient renovation of the existing building stock is imperative for the reduction of the building energy consumption. The overall improvement of the energy performance of the building stock is one of the main targets set by the Europe 20:20:20. Currently in many European countries the information regarding the present condition of the energy performance of the national building stock is rather diffuse and most of the data are based on assumptions.

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