7 results on '"Mª Desirée Alba-Rodríguez"'
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2. Present and Future Energy Poverty, a Holistic Approach: A Case Study in Seville, Spain
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Mª Desirée Alba-Rodríguez, Carlos Rubio-Bellido, Mónica Tristancho-Carvajal, Madelyn Marrero, Raúl Castaño-Rosa, Tampere University, and Architecture
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Consumo energético ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Bill of quantities ,02 engineering and technology ,Life-cycle analysis ,Renewable energy sources ,021105 building & construction ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Cambio climático ,Climate change ,GE1-350 ,6310.11 Bienestar Social ,Energy poverty ,media_common ,Rehabilitación de edificios ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,218 Environmental engineering ,Direct and indirect energy ,Energy consumption ,3305.14 Viviendas ,climate change ,Sevilla ,Ahorro energético ,6310.08 Pobreza ,Work (electrical) ,Energías Renovables ,direct and indirect energy ,3322.01 Distribución de la Energía ,020209 energy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,TJ807-830 ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,TD194-195 ,Adaptability ,Economía ,6310.09 Calidad de Vida ,energy poverty ,3305.01 Diseño Arquitectónico ,Proceso constructivo ,Retrofitting ,bill of quantities ,life-cycle analysis ,Poverty ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Environmental economics ,Pobreza energética ,Environmental sciences ,3311.02 Ingeniería de Control ,Business - Abstract
Energy poverty is a social problem that is accentuated in a climate change future scenario where families become increasingly vulnerable. This problem has been studied in cold weather, but it also takes place in warm climates such as those of Mediterranean countries, and it has not been widely targeted. In these countries, approximately 70% of its building stock was built during 1960"“1980, its renovation being an opportunity to reduce its energy demand, improve tenants' quality of life, and make it more resilient to climate change. In the retrofitting process, it is also important to consider tenants' adaptability and regional scenarios. In this sense, the present work proposes an assessment model of retrofitting projects that takes into consideration energy consumption, comfort, tenants' health, and monetary poverty. For this, the Index of Vulnerable Homes was implemented in this research to consider adaptive comfort in the energy calculation as well as the adaptability to climate change. A case study of 40 social housings in Seville, Spain, was analyzed in 2050 and 2080 future scenarios, defining the impact in energy poverty of the building retrofitting projects. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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- 2021
3. A Model for the Assessment of the Water Footprint of Gardens that Include Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)
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M. Dolores Gómez-López, Mª Desirée Alba-Rodríguez, Madelyn Marrero, and Rocío Ruíz-Pérez
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geography ,Payback period ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,business.industry ,Environmental resource management ,Urban design ,Urban area ,Rainwater harvesting ,Water resources ,Water balance ,Environmental science ,business ,Water use ,Urban metabolism - Abstract
The limitations presented by traditional urban water cycle systems, which are linearly designed systems, highlight the need to develop new technologies in a new circular strategic approach. In order to quantify the improvements, new methodologies are needed that integrate indicators that assess direct and indirect water consumption, as well as the origin of the water consumed and the incorporation of grey and rainwater. The methodology proposed provides quantitative data in terms of water to calculate the payback period of the new circular systems, comparing the conventional ones with new installations of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), which are proposed as alternatives to optimize the urban metabolism by improving the water infiltration. The water footprint indicator (WF) is adapted to the construction sector, it allows to quantify the direct and indirect consumption. The first approximation is made to evaluate the impact of the urban water cycle systems. To this end, three possible scenarios are modelled, one of which is a conventional system and another two with SUDS, but different gardens, one of them with autochthonous vegetation and the second one with ornamental vegetation, with greater water requirements. Through this quantification, the amortization period is analyzed in terms of water, considering; the reduction of direct water consumption achieved with the SUDS as compared to the conventional systems; and the consumption of indirect water embedded in the materials necessary for the execution of the systems. The SUDS implementation works require approximately twice as much indirect water as conventional systems, due to the necessary improvements in the terrain for the proper functioning of these eco-efficient systems. This study, together with the technical and economic evaluation, allows us to analyze the viability of the SUDS and contribute with quantitative data in the decision-making phase for the future incorporation of this type of eco-efficient systems into the urban networks. The results of the impact of an urban space renovation project applying water-sensitive urban design techniques are shown by evaluating the nature of the materials to be incorporated in the work, the hydrological design of the project, its suitability for the urban environment and its capacity to adapt to future scenarios, evaluating both direct and indirect water. Likewise, the calculation of the WF developed by Hoekstra and Chapagain, generally applied to the agricultural sector, is also adapted to the estimation of the water balance of urban systems with the presence of green areas. The methodology incorporates local biophysical, climatic and temporal data, together with the specific data of the project to calculate the water consumption in the urban area derived from the re-naturalization of urban areas, which has been little explored until now, and to have a measurable indicator to quantify economic and environmental impacts, applicable to the construction sector. In the analysis of the results, it is worth highlighting how the scenarios in which water-sensitive urban design technologies are incorporated presents higher WF values (increased by 1.7 times), referring to the materials and execution of the works than a project in which these design technologies are not applied. The saving of water resources during the use and maintenance phases is 82% per year. The balance means that, at the end of the life cycle, 66% less WF is accumulated and the amortization in terms of water of the infrastructures occurs in year 4.
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- 2021
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4. Building rehabilitation versus demolition and new construction: Economic and environmental assessment
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Madelyn Marrero, Patricia González-Vallejo, Alejandro Martínez-Rocamora, Mª Desirée Alba-Rodríguez, and Antonio Ferreira-Sánchez
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Engineering ,Rehabilitation ,Ecological footprint ,Ecology ,business.industry ,020209 energy ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Bill of quantities ,02 engineering and technology ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Work (electrical) ,Emergency condition ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Demolition ,medicine ,Environmental impact assessment ,business ,Environmental planning - Abstract
Since the end of the twentieth century, discussion on dwelling rehabilitation versus its demolition and new construction has been steadily increasing in intensity, which is especially due to the necessity for the regeneration of urban centres. However, rehabilitation is not always considered the most economical solution, and demolition and new construction may constitute a better option. In the present work, a multi-family building in Seville, Spain, is used as a case study. After having suffered damage from a construction failure, it is assessed for its complete rehabilitation. Defective maintenance has worsened the bad condition of the building. A model is proposed, from the project budget perspective, that allows the environmental (Ecological Footprint indicator) and the economic (project's bill of quantities) assessment of the recovery of the dwelling. In the case study, the rehabilitation Ecological Footprint and the project cost are 0.06 gha/m 2 of floor area (457.22 EUR/m 2 ) and 0.14 gha/m 2 (576.33 EUR/m 2 ) for a new building on the same plot, respectively. It can be deduced that, even with a severely damaged building, the repair and retrofit work incurs a lower economic and environmental impact than that of the total replacement with a new construction.
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- 2017
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5. Life-cycle assessment of nonhazardous construction and demolition waste. Application of carbon footprint indicator
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Mª Desirée Alba-Rodríguez, Madelyn Marrero, Jaime Solís-Guzmán, and Cristina Rivero-Camacho
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Work breakdown structure ,Environmental analysis ,Demolition waste ,Work (electrical) ,business.industry ,Urbanization ,Environmental resource management ,Carbon footprint ,Environmental science ,Environmental impact assessment ,business ,Life-cycle assessment - Abstract
This chapter analyzes the environmental impact of construction and demolition waste on urbanization projects. A model for waste quantification, previously defined by the authors, is adapted for the assessment of urbanization work. Three urbanization projects have been evaluated from a dual perspective: both environmental and economic. The results show that it is possible to quantify the integral impact within construction projects of the application of a work breakdown system of construction. An economic and environmental analysis using the carbon footprint indicator is also added through traditional model for quantification and management of construction and demolition waste.
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- 2020
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6. Contributors
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Karel Van Acker, Mª Desirée Alba-Rodríguez, Cecilia Azevedo, Maria Chiara Bignozzi, Giuseppe Bonifazi, Mingli Cao, Isidro A. Carrascal, Gi-Wook Cha, Prinya Chindaprasirt, Ana Cimentada, Raffaele Cioffi, Francesco Colangelo, Nele De Belie, Mercedes del Río Merino, Andrea Di Maria, Yining Ding, Huiwen Dong, Christian John Engelsen, Miren Etxeberria, Johan Eyckmans, Ilenia Farina, Alberto Ferraro, José-Luis Gálvez-Martos, Julia García-González, Justo García-Navarro, Fernando López Gayarre, Patrizia Ghisellini, Aliakbar Gholampour, Jesús Suárez González, M. Ignacio Guerra-Romero, Zhanggen Guo, Asad Hanif, W.H. Hong, Ioan-Robert Istrate, Tianxun Jiang, Ana Jiménez-Rivero, Andrés Juan-Valdés, Abbaas I. Kareem, Young-Chan Kim, Xiangkun Kong, Alexander Koutamanis, K.P.V. Lafayette, Stefania Manzi, Madelyn Marrero, Amelia Marshall, Ivan Moccia, H.J. Moon, Hamid Nikraz, Togay Ozbakkaloglu, F. Pacheco-Torgal, D.H.F. Paz, Carlos López-Colina Pérez, Antonella Petrillo, Juan A. Polanco, César Porras-Amores, Julia Mª Morán-del Pozo, Cristina Rivero-Camacho, Desirée Rodríguez-Robles, José A. Sainz-Aja, Vanchai Sata, Miguel A. Serrano López, Silvia Serranti, Jesús Setién, Rafat Siddique, Nagaratnam Sivakugan, Marija Šljivić-Ivanović, Ivana Smičiklas, M.C.M. Sobral, Jaime Solís-Guzmán, Yan Sun, C. Thomas, An Tu, Rabin Tuladhar, Sergio Ulgiati, Paola Villoria-Sáez, and Jing Zhang
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- 2020
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7. HEREVEA tool for economic and environmental impact evaluation for sustainable planning policy in housing renovation
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Madelyn Marrero, María Rocío Ruiz-Pérez, Raúl Castaño-Rosa, Mª Desirée Alba-Rodríguez, Jaime Solís-Guzmán, and Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas II (ETSIE)
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building renovation ,Impacto medioambiental ,3329.04 Uso del Suelo ,Geographic information system ,020209 energy ,economic-environmental assessment ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ,TJ807-830 ,Bill of quantities ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,TD194-195 ,01 natural sciences ,Evaluación ambiental ,Renewable energy sources ,6201.03 Urbanismo ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,media_common.cataloged_instance ,GE1-350 ,Environmental impact assessment ,European union ,Environmental planning ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,Desarrollo sostenible ,Government ,Ecological footprint ,Rehabilitación de edificios ,Sistema de Información Geográfica (GIS) ,Eficiencia energética ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,business.industry ,3305.90 Transmisión de Calor en la Edificación ,Regeneración urbana ,Environmental sciences ,3305.14 Viviendas ,Climate change mitigation ,ecological footprint ,Sevilla ,3308.01 Control de la Contaminación Atmosférica ,planning policy ,Business ,Building renovation ,Huella ecológica ,Efficient energy use - Abstract
Dwelling renovation has gained major importance in the European Union due to the current need for the urban regeneration of many cities, most of whose existing buildings (approximately 60%) were built in the 1960s to 1980s. These renovations require improvements in aspects such as structural integrity, accessibility, and the updating of deteriorated or obsolescent installations. This reveals that building renovations constitute a key factor in the future of the European building sector and must be included in strategies both for the reduction of this sector&rsquo, s environmental impact and for climate change mitigation. In order to determine the effectiveness of renovations and their impact, the HEREVEA (Huella Ecoló, gica de la Rehabilitacion de Viviendas en Andalucia or Ecological Footprint of the Renovation of Dwellings in Andalusia) model is proposed on data obtained from the project´, s bill of quantities, its ecological footprint is assessed, and the economic-environmental feasibility of different proposals are evaluated simultaneously. The resulting model is integrated into a geographic information system, which allows georeferenced results. The tool can be used for sustainable and resilient planning policy-making at all government levels, and for the decision-making processes. In this paper, economic and environmental indicators are, for the first time, simultaneously assessed through statistical normalization obtained from 50 cases analyzed in the city of Seville. Furthermore, five case studies are assessed in detail in order to determine the sensitivity of the model. These renovations represent less than 30% of the cost and 6% of the ecological footprint of a new construction project. During the subsequent 25 years, the energy efficiency improvements could significantly reduce the CO2 emissions that are due to direct consumption.
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- 2019
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