AbstractsLaw & Legal Studies

As sustainability for building industry has been accepted as an ‘overarching environmental discourse’ that conceives also economic and social dimensions, the approach on building for sustainability assessment of heritage buildings’ adaptive reuse restoration shall be in accordance and yet to reference heritage building facets to be comprehensive. This research, on the wide extend, is conducted for the development of a tool that integrates sustainability issues with heritage building restoration projects to support the goal of building industry on achieving sustainable development. More explicitly, it is conveyed to structure a tool that derives assessments for defining the sustainability performance of heritage buildings adaptive reuse restoration through steel intensive interventions, as it has become a leading restoration practice of building industry. This requires a thorough understanding on the credentials of sustainable development, sustainability of buildings and steel as well as of heritage building restoration. It also demands an examination of existing assessment methodologies and collation of case studies on already conducted heritage buildings’ adaptive reuse restoration through steel intensive solutions. Through, diverse research epistemologies, quantitative and qualitative, the research established ‘the tool’ that runs over assessment of five; heritage value, adaptive reuse, economic, socio-cultural and environmental performance groups for achieving a comprehensive sustainability assessment. It delivers results through the use of Excel and SimaPro for life cycle analysis, for three facts; adaptive reuse restoration performance, environmental performance and substantially sustainability grade. At this stage, these results help in decision giving of a project proposal but ‘the tool’ can be improved to work for decision-making by building on the methodological proposal presented on intervention-based application of the tool. On the whole, this thesis presents the development and evaluation of ‘the tool’ as a methodological proposal along identification of the role of adaptive reuse restoration through steel intensive solutions in sustainability. Η παρούσα ερευνητική δραστηριότητα αφορά στην μελέτη του επιστημονικού αντικειμένου της βιωσιμότητας και την διερεύνηση των αντίστοιχων μεθόδων αποτίμησής της προς την κατεύθυνση εφαρμογής τους στα ιστορικά κτίρια και τις εργασίες αποκατάστασης τους. Ειδικότερα, η εργασία επικεντρώνεται στα κτίρια πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς, και στη χρήση μεταλλικών στοιχείων και συστημάτων ως κύριων τεχνικών επεμβάσεων, οι οποίες πέρα από τη στατική επάρκεια παρέχουν σεβασμό στις αρχιτεκτονικές ιδιαιτερότητες των ιστορικών κατασκευών ικανοποιώντας τις βασικές αρχές αποκατάστασης, όπως είναι η αναστρεψιμότητα των ενισχύσεων.Στο πλαίσιο της διατριβής μελετώνται ενδελεχώς οι παράμετροι της βιώσιμης ανάπτυξης, η εφαρμογή τους στην συμπεριφορά των κτιρίων, τα βιώσιμα διαπιστευτήρια των μεταλλικών δομικών εφαρμογών, καθώς και τα χαρακτηριστικά και τα κριτήρια βιωσιμότητας στον τομέα…