Reconstruction of administrative buildings of the 70's: The possibility of energy modernization

Abstract

The question of energy efficiency and energy saving has high degree of relevance. It was revealed that in the view of considerable heat consumption the administrative buildings that had been constructed in Russia before 1996 require modernization. Built at their time and based on the actual at that moment standards of the thermal protection, nowadays these buildings became automatically unsatisfactory from this viewpoint. At the same time their operating period is not finished, which means that those buildings do not need a major overhaul. The paper presents an algorithm for upgrade of the thermo-technical parameters of the framing as well as the parameters of overall energy consumption to the modern requirements without complex reconstruction of the building or ceasing their normal functioning. The building selected for examination is the "Uchebny corpus" of St-Petersburg Polytechnic University. This administrative building is typical from both: construction and exploitation. That is why the conclusions made in this research can be applicable to most of framed administrative buildings of the above period.