BUILT HERITAGE, ENERGY and ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY INTEGRATED TOOLS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF HISTORIC URBAN AREAS
The built heritage preservation has to meet to contemporary needs of a changing world and a main necessity has become the sustainability, in term of environmental, economic and social issues. BhENEFIT proposes a holistic approach to the management of the Historic Built Areas (hereinafter HBA), considering a wide spectrum of related aspects, concerning daily maintenance links to preservation and valorization of historic heritage in a sustainable perspective.
The proposed strategy considers:
- functional compatibility evaluation between the expected use and the historical value;
- performance optimization of the building, in the perspective of its energy efficiency and structural behaviour increase;
- long-term sustainability of the action, with minimization of emergency actions through a comprehensive monitoring strategy, which is aimed at planned preservation of Cultural Heritage.
To implement that strategy, BhENEFIT wants to build management capacities, involving and coordinating relevant players from public and private sectors and providing innovative methodologies, deployed also from the RTD activities of the technical partners for the b(h)enefit of the local communities.
The project is structured on 3 main components:
*Improving the governance’s system, toward a shared strategy for managing the HBAs, reducing the gap between regulations, responsibilities and implementations.
*Deployment of tools, to help the players in implementing the strategy, through monitoring and provisional instruments
*Increasing the capacities of the players, to support the Strategy with more cooperative and pro-active staff.
BHENEFIT methodology will be validated by 13 partners in 8 different HBA pilot areas in Central Europe, every of which is related to specific issues (earthquake, pollution, touristic flows, energy efficiency etc.): the developed tools (action plans, ICT tools, etc) will be customized to local needs.