Retrofit scenarios and economic sustainability. A case-study in the Italian context.

The aim of the paper is to highlight the potentialities for supporting the decision making process and design activities, for the case of retrofit projects with alternative technological solutions to compare. A multidisciplinary approach was adopted, involving the contribution of Real Estate Market and Economic Evaluation of Project, Architectural Technology and Building Physics. A simplified application of the Life Cycle Costing methodology was used, in synergy with energy analyses, to select, among different scenarios, the most viable solution for the retrofitting project of a single house in Northern Italy.