T his book contains selected papers presented during the World Renewable Energy Networks biannual World Med Green Forum (MGF). The 2022 MGF highlights the role of renewable energy applications in the sustainable building sector with a focus on the Mediterranean region as a foundation for a truly positive energy future. MGF is an open roundtable for an international community of researchers, practitioners, and experts to discuss the most innovative and promising sustainable building technologies. The papers presented explore the intersection between twin transitions in policies, programs, projects, and experimentation, with the digital domain innovating the green building sector towards more reliable and inclusive planning and design practices in order to collectively envision future buildings and cities.
Part 1: Cities: Healthy, Augmented and Resilient Cities.
Chapter
1.
Towards Sustainable Regeneration in Central Urban Areas.
Chapter
2. Urban
regeneration processes of public housing in the Mediterranean area: a
multiscale and multi-system approach.
Chapter
3. Energy Communities and
Smart Villages in the Madonie Sicilian inner rural area.
Chapter
4.
Environmental data-driven design for the management of climate-adaptive
environmental design processes of the built environment.
Chapter
5. Energy,
resource circularity and retrofitting in Positive Energy Districts.
Chapter
6. An urban infrastructure as quality city connector in a multystakeholder
approach.
Chapter
7. Urban green infrastructure for planning neutral
communities. Processes and technologies to assess the effects on the
territories.
Chapter
8. Building a healthier living environment for people
and the planet. A case study review.
Chapter
9. Learning from Small Green
Spaces. How Findings on Use and Perception can improve the Designing of Urban
Experience.
Chapter
10. New Regeneration Scenarios to Improve the Livability
in Villages.
Chapter
11. Agile-Transdisciplinary Conceptual Framework for
Retrofitting Mediterranean Built Environments.- Part 2: Buildings:
Sustainable, Retrofitted and Renovated Buildings.
Chapter
12. Impact of
Process Steps on the Performance of Heterojunction Solar Cells.
Chapter
13.
Active and Passive Energy Efficiency Systems Compatible with Traditional
Buildings in Palestine.
Chapter
14. Proposal of a multiscalar assessment
framework to guide renovation actions towards a more resilient built
environment.
Chapter
15. Integrating different PV roofs on a heritage
building considering aesthetic, technical, energy and environmental aspects:
a multi-perspective approach.
Chapter
16. Experimental tests for the
adaptation of a curtain wall subjected to extreme events in the Mediterranean
Area.
Chapter
17. Seismic Evaluation of a Curtain Wall System for improving
the adaptive performance of connecting non-structural components.
Chapter
18. Process Management of Spatial Structures to Address Positive Buildings
with the Goals of Sustainable Development.
Chapter
19. Assessing
environmental performance and climate change mitigation effects of bio-based
materials for building retrofitting.
Chapter
20. Solar Architecture in Rome:
The refurbishment of historic buildings with active solar technologies.-
Chapter
21. Integration of solar technologies in historical buildings:
construction of an evolutionary framework of good practices.
Chapter
22.
Blow-up-Sustainable Modular Houses for Slum Dwellers amidst Covid-19.- Part
3: Technologies: Circular and Ecological Materials, Nature-based Solutions
for the Built Habitat.
Chapter
23. Low-cost procedure for evaluating the
thermal resistance of building materials.
Chapter
24. Global Catastrophe
Climate Change is happening now, Renewable Energy can reduce its impact.-
Chapter
25. Use of vegetable materials fortemporary structures and
infrastructures: Sustainable design with tensile systems: case study in
Guimaraes.
Chapter
26. Green and healthy solutions in post-pandemic
housing.
Chapter
27. Integration of Circular and green technologies for the
adaptive reuse of public space.
Chapter
28. Transitional spaces as a domain
for public-private engagement in urban regeneration.
Chapter
29. Marine
Energy Sources for decarbonization of Mediterranean regions through Maritime
Spatial Planning.- Part 4: Humans: Environmental Comfort and Well-being,
Energy Efficiency and Users Conscious Behaviour.
Chapter
30. Evaluation of
electrical performance for 1.4 kW Photovoltaic system in Oman: a technical
and economic study.
Chapter
31. Rethinking the European Green Deal
Accelerating the transformation towards energy independence based on 100%
Renewable Energy.
Chapter
32. Prospects for Wind Energy in Southern Morocco
and Northern Mauritania.
Chapter
33. Co-design inclusive relations between
Humansand environments adopting a citizen science approach.
Chapter
34. The
Influence of Individual Comfort in Shaping the Tourism Image of Balige.-
Chapter
35. Feasibility of integrating small scale anaerobic digestion in
urban areas: Analyzing energy efficiency.
Chapter
36. Dried-fruit shell
reuse in green construction and building materials.
Chapter
37. Functional
hospitals for humans.- Part 5: Processes: Methods, Policies and Education for
Inclusive Co-planning and Co-design.
Chapter
38. Artificial Cellulose Type
Catalysts for Depolymerisation of Cellulosic Biomass.
Chapter
39. Learning
from collaborative processes to design the urban green transition.
Chapter
40. Influence of optical characteristics of faēades on pedestrian thermal
comfort within the streets of Manhattan.
Chapter
41. Sustainable real estate
development. How to measure the level of introduced sustainability?.
Chapter
42. Strategies for Frugal Smart Oasis:Figuig as prospect.
Chapter
43. A
simulation-based approach for defining energy retrofit strategies of built
heritage, through the use of H-BIM tools.
Chapter
44. Generative
Environmental Design tools to support circular economy at the local scale.-
Chapter
45. An integrated approach for energy and environmental improvement
of built heritage through Building Information Modelling (BIM).
Chapter
46.
Investigation on the chance of applying bioclimatic solutions for ancient
architectures regeneration.
Chapter
47. Satellite imagery and AI techniques
in geospatial analysis to enhance environmental sustainability Application on
urban green space in the city of Rabat Morocco.
Chapter
48. Living Lab for
Technological Retrofit Design on Perceived Quality.- Part 6: Late arrival
Papers.
Chapter
49. Retrofitting of an Existing Building to be a
Sustainable, Vibrant, and Smart Building.
Chapter
50. Co-design
eco-sustainable and innovative retrofit scenarios in the university context:
the experience of beXLab.
Chapter
51. Building digital scenarios to predict
energy efficient renovations: the experience of beXLab.
Chapter
52.
Leachability of spent chromated copper arsenate (CCA) treated wood
encapsulated in geopolymer cement.
Chapter
53. Behind a Senseable Green
Building The new Sistema Ambiente Headquarter.
Dr. Ali Sayigh is Chairman and Founder of the World Renewable Energy Congress and Council; Director General of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN); Chairman and Founder of the Arab Solar Energy Society; and Past Chairman of the UK Solar Energy Society. Dr. Sayigh actively consults on renewable and sustainable energy issues for a number of international organizations, including UNESCO, ISESCO, UNDP, ESCWA, & UNIDO. Dr. Sayigh was Director of Solar Seminars at ICTP Trieste, Italy from 1977-1995; Professor of Solar Energy at King Saud, Kuwait, and Reading Universities from 1969 to 1994, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire from 1994 to 2004. He was the founding expert in Renewable Energy at AOPEC. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Energy, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Chartered Engineer. He has published more than 400 papers and has contributed to and edited more than 30 books. He has been Editor and Editor-in-Chief of several international journals, including Renewable Energy and the International Journal of Environmental Sciences and Technology and Editor-in-Chief of the reference work Comprehensive Renewable Energy.
