Green Building Strategy Supported by PostgreSQL and ArcGis System

Abstract

The majority of existing buildings are old, in a state of decay and in need of rehabilitation interventions. When selecting the type of possible intervention to be applied, the choice falls between two alternatives: simple unsustainable ordinary maintenance versus ecological retrofitting i.e., an increase in the quality of the indoor environment and building energy saving using local bio-natural materials and products. The present research seeks to respond to the requests of recent comprehensive reviews which ask for the retrofitting of the world’s huge existing building stocks and portfolios by proposing an approach and pre testing it in a prototype reference building repeated in the future on a larger urban scale. The proposed test achieved the important outcome and goal of a Green Building strategy and post-carbon city framework i.e. the significant enhancement of the thermal performance of the buildings as a result of a few targeted key external works and the consequent saving of energy. All the above show that all buildings can be ecologically retrofitted at an affordable cost, although initially slightly more expensive than the cost of ordinary unsustainable construction. However, this difference is offset by the favorable pay-back period, which is fast, acceptable and of short duration.