Recent research in building renovation seeks methods for the development of more holistic
renovation scenarios that live up to a broader set of sustainability objectives and criteria, and …

A review of the barriers for building renovation has revealed a lack of methodologies, which
can promote sustainability objectives and assist various stakeholders during the design …

A fundamental challenge within the field of renovation is handling enormous complexity at
two levels. Firstly, complexity at the level of an individual building project must be handled …

Future building renovations must rely on a holistic perspective in relation to sustainability.
This paper presents a Decision Support Systems (DSS) that can be used by architects and …

Renovation construction is employed for maintaining the long-term performance of
buildings. For the occupants, the building users, renovation contributes to the acceptable …

A central, fundamental challenge within the renovation field is handling enormous
complexity, both at the level of an individual building project (consisting thousands of …

Throughout history, architecture has changed to reflect the increasing expressive capacities
of ideas, elements, and structural systems as a result of this development, explains the …

Designing a renovation plan for a building is a highly complex task: during this planning
process, the design team needs to explore an enormous “design space” of possible …

Future building renovation concerns sustainability in broader perspectives facilitated by
holistic renovation scenarios. The aim of this paper is firstly identification of both objective …

Renovation, as a design task, can be defined so as to change building elements–repair,
replace, add, remove, refurbish–in order to meet a set of given performance criteria (key …