I.S. EN 16883:2017

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Conservation of cultural heritage- Guidelines for improving the energy performance of historic buildings

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Published: Published on 2017-06-04.

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1 Scope

This European Standard provides guidelines for sustainably improving the energy performance of historic buildings, e.g. historically, architecturally or culturally valuable buildings, while respecting their heritage significance. The use of this standard is not limited to buildings with statutory heritage designation, it applies to historic buildings of all types and ages.

This European Standard presents a normative working procedure for selecting measures to improve energy performance, based on an investigation, analysis and documentation of the building including its heritage significance. The procedure assesses the impact of those measures in relation to preserving the character-defining elements of the building.

2 Normative references

The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

EN 15603, Energy performance of buildings - Overall energy use and definition of energy ratings
EN 16096, Conservation of cultural property - Condition survey and report of built cultural heritage
EN 16247-2, Energy audits - Part 2: Buildings

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

3.1 Terms related to buildings

3.1.1
alteration change in condition, beneficial or not, intentional or not

[SOURCE: EN 15898:2011, 3.2.4]

3.1.2
building
construction as a whole, including its building envelope and all technical building systems, for which energy is used to condition the indoor climate, to provide domestic hot water and illumination and other services related to the use of the building

Note 1 to entry:
The term can refer to the building as a whole or to parts thereof that have been designed or altered to be used separately.

[SOURCE: CEN/TR 15615:2008]

3.1.3
building element
major functional part of a building