On November 11, Pablo Hernández de la Cruz, ENEDI researcher, defended his doctoral thesis titled: Energy diagnosis, renovation assessment and climate resilience of the centralized social housing building stock of the Basque Country.
Social Housing Buildings are considered a priority sector by the European Union to boost the renovation needed to achieve the Greenhouse Gas emissions reduction targets to mitigate Climate Change, whilst also helping to tackle energy poverty. This PhD Thesis scrutinizes the centralized Social Housing Buildings stock of the Basque Country to diagnose the current energy situation and derive the real user consumption profiles. With this, a proper renovation deployment is performed analyzing a wide sample of Renovation Measures, considering the influence of the real consumption of the users on the renovation assessment. Climate Change is also considered, analyzing different scenarios, as well as the environmental impact of the renovation of the centralized Social Housing Buildings stock of the Basque Country.
Likewise, as a result of the research activity derived from this thesis, the following articles have been published:
A novel strategy to guarantee a minimum indoor temperature in social housing buildings. Pablo Hernandez-Cruz, Irati Uriarte, Juan María Hidalgo-Betanzos, Íñigo Antepara, Iván Flores-Abascal. Journal of Building Engineering. Volume 76, 1 October 2023, 107230.
Energy efficiency and energy performance gap in centralized social housing buildings of the Basque Country. Pablo Hernandez-Cruz, Catalina Giraldo-Soto, César Escudero-Revilla, Juan María Hidalgo-Betanzos, Iván Flores-Abascal. Energy and Buildings. Volume 298, 1 November 2023, 113534.
The effect of considering the real consumption on the assessment of the renovation of social housing buildings. Pablo Hernandez-Cruz, Juan María Hidalgo-Betanzos, Ivan Flores-Abascal, Aitor Erkoreka-Gonzalez, Jon Fernandez-Luzuriaga. Energy and Buildings. Volume 319, 15 September 2024, 114535.
Environmental and energy analysis of the renovation of social housing buildings under various climate change scenarios and user profiles. Pablo Hernandez-Cruz, Ivan Flores-Abascal, Juan María Hidalgo-Betanzos, Manuela Almeida, Aitor Erkoreka-Gonzalez. Journal of Building Engineering. Volume 98, 1 December 2024, 111164.