Mariangela Musolino

Post Carbon City: Building Valuation and Energy Performance Simulation Programs

Today, world carbon energy consumption has increased dramatically. The survival of the Earth is endangered by pollution, produced by excessive oil and carbon over use. The sector that consumes this 40% of total energy is construction which needs innovative models for integrated ecological- energy - economic forecast. The research set up an integrated model for the overall assessment of a building having alternative characteristics: sustainable, vs. unsustainable or Common or Business As Usual BAS. The research takes into consideration the energy consumption for the thermal management and climate metabolism of the buildings and the consequent impacts in terms of CO2 emissions. The results obtained validate the adoption of ecological cork panels for passivation and insulation in sustainable building vs. common. The research scientifically and accurately quantifying two alternative (sustainable vs. BAS) prototype buildings, comparatively testing three Energy Performance Simulation Programs (Energy Plus; Termus; Blumatica Energy) ascertaining the coherence and convergence of all their output and results.

Geographically Weighted Regression for the Post Carbon City and Real Estate Market Analysis: A Case Study

Geographically Weighted Regression is a statistical technique for real estate market analysis, particularly adequate in order to identify homogeneous areas and to define the marginal contribution that the geographical location gives to the market value of the properties. In this paper a GWR has been applied, in order to verify the robustness of the real estate sample, this for the subsequent individuation of progressive real estate sub-samples in able to detect and to identify possible potential market premium in real estate exchange and rent markets for green buildings [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28]. The model has been built on a large real estate dataset, related to the trades of residential real estate units in the city of Reggio Calabria (Calabria region, Southern Italy).

Valuating Historic Centers to Save Planet Soil

The Encyclical Letter (Laudato si’, 2) teaches that Earth cries out because of the harm Humanity has inflicted on her by its irresponsible use and abuse of the Earth goods, such as soil, and it calls people to global ecological conversion in key sectors such as soil to replace consumption as the basis for urban development via new buildings and the consequential pollution of areas and landscape. This research is devoted to answer the encyclical call by conceiving, designing and testing cases of Historic Center treasuring, an alternative to new buildings, additional development and further urban sprawl. This research tries to enhance the process of urban sustainability by the mean of a new methodology for Historic Center that includes total knowledge, analysis, valuation, treasuring and valorization. Attributions: Malerba A. authored § Abstract, 2; Massimo D. E. authored § 3, 4; Musolino M. authored § 1, 5.

Carbon Sequestration by Cork Oak Forests and Raw Material to Built up Post Carbon City

Over the last few decades, there has been widespread awareness that global warming is linked to the introduction of CO2 into the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuels. Urban areas play a very important role in CO2 emissions. Cork, a natural and renewable material (which in itself is the result of a storage of C) can effectively contribute to improving the quality and the insulation of buildings, reducing energy waste, preserving environment, saving landscape [20, 21], the design of the post-carbon city [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25]. The increase in the area occupied by the cork oak forests would increase the storage of carbon in a permanent way, as the use of cork does not compromise the forest resource and does not involve the introduction into the atmosphere of CO2: indeed its use in thermal insulation of buildings reduces CO2 emissions for domestic heating and cooling. Cork oak forests take on a multi-functionality that includes economic, environmental and landscape values. Their protection requires the adoption of a territorial governance that takes into account the commitment to lower down climate change.

Post Carbon City and Real Estate Market: Testing the Dataset of Reggio Calabria Market Using Spline Smoothing Semiparametric Method

In this paper a hedonic price function built through a semiparametric additive model is tried out for the real estate market analysis of the central area of Reggio Calabria. The semiparametric model uses Penalized Spline functions and aims to achieve an improvement in the prediction of the market prices of housing properties in the central area of Reggio Calabria. More in particular, the final objective of the research is to detect and to identify possible potential market premium in real estate exchange and rent markets for green buildings. This is the first preliminary phase for the unavoidable verification of the robustness of the real estate sample, or for the subsequent individuation of progressive real estate sub-samples.

Isovalore Maps for the Spatial Analysis of Real Estate Market: A Case Study for a Central Urban Area of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Generally, with reference to the geographical variability of real estate values, the observed variables may have non-linear relationships with the response variable. For this reason it’s possible to combine kriging techniques with additive models to obtain the geoadditive models. In this paper a geoadditive model based on penalized spline functions has been applied, in order to obtain improvements respect to usual Kriging techniques and to provide a spatial distribution of real estate unitary values for a central area of the city of Reggio Calabria (Italy). This is the first preliminary phase for the verification of the robustness of the real estate sample, or for the subsequent individuation of progressive real estate sub-samples, for to detect and to identify possible potential market premium in real estate exchange and rent markets for green buildings.

A Green District to Save the Planet

The Earth (Mother and Sister, according to Encyclical Letter) cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the Earth’s goods (Laudato si’, 2) and calls all people to global ecological conversion in key sectors, such as excessive energy consumption in urban areas and buildings and the consequent additional pollution. This research is devoted to answer the encyclical’s call by conceiving, designing and experimenting experiences of related to the Green City and Green Building. It deals with energy consumption in urban and construction management and CO2 emissions. Through the establishment of a specific methodology and experimentation on unprecedented city and district scales, the study compares energy consumption and CO2 reduction of different scenarios of interventions based on the main pillars of Green Conservation and Ecological Retrofitting. A Valuation Framework, enabled by Web-GIS tools, supports the present research, to integrate: unprecedentedly detailed 3D city-modelling; alternative scenarios (Sustainable vs. Business-as-Usual BAS) for whole-city energy management; cost estimates for investments in alternative urban scenarios; valuation of energy management in an alternative scenarios; overtime economic and financial analysis, comparing various scenarios. case study: a real-world design and social experimentations have been activated in Reggio Calabria (Italy) and Boston (USA). Two case studies constitute two case studies. The first one is going to be implemented in the real world as an experiment entitled in an urban neighborhood whose features include: 6,400 residents; 490,000 m2 of total area; 125 urban blocks; 840 buildings; 2,500,000 m3 of constructions; 800,000 m2 of apartments; around 6,600 apartment units.

Higest and Best Use : la preservazione come alternativa d'uso per i beni immobiliari di interesse ambientale

I1 patrimonio culturale e ambientale puo essere considerato un capitale economico. Infatti, malgrado i beni culturali e ambientali siano intrinsecamente atipici a causa della loro diversita, rarita o addirittura unicita, sono in genere utili, fruibili e disponibili in quantita limitate, possiedono cioe quelle peculiarita che per definizione si attribuiscono ai beni economici salvo il fatto che spesso sono fruiti in modo indiviso. A fronte della scarsita dei beni immobiliari di interesse ambientale e della crescente affermazione della domanda d’uso di beni e servizi a base ambientale si pone oggi per questo patrimonio la necessita di ricercare il massimo e migliore utilizzo nella prospettiva sociale dello sviluppo sostenibile. Le trasformazioni fuori scala del patrimonio ambientale hanno determinato sprechi e danni irreversibili, pertanto l’attenzione ai vari tipi d‘uso e alle relative valutazioni diviene ineludibile sia per la conservazione del capitale naturale e ambientale nel lungo periodo, sia per la verifica dell’efficienza dell’invectimento. La comunicazione intende esaminare come la preservazione di beni immobiliari di interesse ambientale possa essere scelta come l’Highest and Best U s e ( H B U ) secondo il tradizionale processo decisionale dell’llighest and Best Use Analysis ( H B U A ) usato per le comuni risorse immobiliari private.