Sustainability 2013, 5, 2623-2643; doi:10.3390/su5062623
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Sustainable and Balanced Energy Efficiency and Preservation in
Our Built Heritage
Heidi Norrström
Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, Sven Hultins gata 6, Göteborg,
SE 412 96, Sweden; E-Mail: heidi.norrstrom@chalmers.se; Tel.: +46-736-403-114;
Fax: +46-317-722-485.
Received: 1 April 2013; in revised form: 21 April 2013 / Accepted: 8 June 2013 /
Published: 17 June 2013
Abstract: Today, conservation work in our built cultural heritage has to be reformulated
due to the new energy efficiency requirements put forward. On both a national and an
international level, energy efficiency measures are considered key actions within
sustainability work, answering to the global issue of climate change. What does this imply
for our built heritage? Contemporary conservation is characterized by the concept of
sustainability, and integrated conservation is also expected to be sustainable. It is inherent
in this tradition, but how are we going to balance the historic and architectural values with
the new energy requirements? A research project, Energy Efficiency in Our Cultural
Heritage (EEPOCH), consisting of a multiple case study, has been carried out over three
years, studying selected objects restored within the Halland Model, a project over a decade
long. In EEPOCH the multiple units of analysis are energy efficiency, historic and
architectural values, management, and legislation. All are applied to the selected objects.
The results and conclusions drawn from the analysis show that there are actions that are
possible to take and to recommend, including national inventories of historic values in the
existing building stock as well as guidance for the management of historic values on a
municipal level for continued sustainable development.
Keywords: multiple case study; built heritage; conservation; energy efficiency;
multidisciplinarity
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1. Introduction
1.1. Built Heritage
This research is not about the high profile ―Outstanding Universal Value‖ identified in the World
Heritage Convention [1], although one of the built environments restored within the Halland Model,
the Varberg Radio Station at Grimeton, is a World Heritage site. Instead it is about our common,
everyday, built environment, our inherited cultural spaces; a symbolic expression for human life. ―The
city … consists of … relationships between measurements of its space and the events of its past‖ as
Calvino poetically formulated [2]. Preserving the different time layers generates diversity and also
means preserving memory, the intangible value giving meaning to a place for people using it. This
heritage must be recognized. Furthermore, the boundaries of the criteria for which kind of buildings
are worth preserving are expanding on a local and regional level. In Sweden in the early 1990s, when
national funding was available for inventories, about 3,000 buildings were identified as historically
valuable in the county of Halland. The new inventory finished in 2010 [3], points out 11,000 buildings
in the residential and tertiary sector, and the industrial sector. Similar results are likely to appear in
other parts of Sweden and Europe if, and when, inventories are carried out.
1.2. The Risks
Built heritage faces two risks today emanating from one source—climate change and our efforts to
cope with and mitigate its effects. For the Northern countries the rise of sea levels or droughts are not
as big a threat as they are for the Southern countries, or LDCs (Less Developed Countries). The issue
is less about constructing resilience for coping with changing climate, than about cutting net emissions
of greenhouse gases. This is manifest in the European Directive 2009/28/EC [4] with the objective of
20% renewable energy sources by the year 2020, Directive 2012/27/EU [5] for energy end-use
efficiency and energy service, and Directive 2010/31/EC [6] on the energy performance of buildings.
Parts of the content in the directives have been implemented in Sweden in the mandatory provisions
for building and constructions, BBR, BFS 2011:6 [7] which states requirements for both energy
efficiency and caution within historic buildings when they are altered or extended. BBR equates
existing buildings with new constructions in its requirements for energy efficiency. Then there is the
law, SFS 2006:985 [8], and the regulation, SFS 2006:1592 [9], on energy declarations where cost
efficient energy measures should be suggested to the real estate owner.
The two risks our built heritage faces due to the legislation are: exhaustive refurbishments with the
energy measures undertaken leading to the destruction of cultural, historic, and architectural value, and
the risk that overly cautious management might completely exclude energy efficiency measures. Long-term
sustainable management of cultural values in our built heritage presupposes change triggered by the
need for low running costs and sufficient space for the functions required of the building. There must
be an economy for the maintenance of existing values and new functions for the buildings otherwise
there is no incentive for the owners to preserve. One aim of this research is to explore how balanced
energy measures and preservation can result in both low energy use with low running costs and better
indoor climate, and thus contribute to decreasing CO2 emissions.
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1.3. The Halland Model
The objects and teams investigated in this multiple case study, are buildings restored within the
Halland Model and their teams, leadership, and organization. The Halland Model was a project that
lasted over a decade, started in the 1990‘s recession, where about 100 objects at risk were restored and
over 1,100 construction workers and apprentices were trained in traditional building techniques under
the supervision of skilled craftsmen and conservation officers. After the completion of each
conservation work, the improved premises made new functions available. They were seen as resources
important to regional identity, for both use and development [10].
Both preservation and energy efficiency were taken into account in the conservation work. The
Halland Model provides examples of the management of energy performance without diminishing
cultural value and social history. Thus the Halland Model is appropriate for further research. It is the
built environment from the epoch of traditional craftsmanship and constructed before 1945 that is
studied in this research project.
The Halland Model was developed into a regional cross-sector joint-action network, aiming at
sustainable growth including strengthening competitiveness, use of renewables, recycling of materials,
and development of building conservation. About 1,500 contractors and suppliers have been involved,
and about 400 new jobs have been created directly as a result of the execution of the Halland Model [10].
The concept of the Halland Model has been exported e.g., to the Baltic Sea Region, Russia, Poland,
and Iceland in regional projects for sustainable development. The experience has been widely
disseminated because of its proven usability. It is within this concept that the teams and leadership are
studied in this research project.
1.4. The Aim of the Research
There are two overall research objectives. The first is to design a theoretical model that is
sustainable and application-oriented for an integrated balancing of energy and preservation
requirements without diminishing the tangible and intangible values in our built heritage. The second
is to explore and design a theoretical model for cooperation between the professions involved and a
good working climate in the preservation process.
In the initial stages of this research, a comprehensive information search through university
databases was conducted on this new combined field. The aim was to find out if others had tried to
create theories or models of the kind that this research is aiming at. The search showed that the
combination of built heritage, conservation, and energy efficiency had not been explored to any great
extent and still was not established. There were examples of case studies, but not an in-depth study of
this new combined field and hence no conclusions about how to obtain a balanced assessment of both
energy issues and conservation issues. There were no established theories to use or to verify. In light of
this, the aim of the research is theory building for the development of applied methods.
1.5. The Architectural Stance
Architecture appears predominantly as an applied science for practicing architects. Hence
pragmatism and critical realism are common philosophical stances. This also corresponds well with the
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design process, which is inductive. Architecture is not only descriptive, but also prescriptive, and must
always consider human wellbeing and the different functions of the building. A stimulating built
environment is varied, and preserving the different time layers ensures diversity. Furthermore, taking care
of what we have already manufactured and invested in, is important from a resource and techno-economic
perspective. About 90% of the existing buildings will still be here in 50 years, and the potential for
energy efficiency in the existing building stock is demonstrable. Sustainable architecture cannot be
called sustainable if it is not also energy efficient, but this is only one of many subject matters that
architects should have knowledge of and control over. The case study methodology is therefore a good
choice as it permits mixing methods appropriate for each subject investigated.
2. Results and Discussion
The three buildings chosen were Fattighuset, Teatern, and Tyreshill. The results of the energy
calculations and assessment of historic and architectural values are presented below as short
summaries. The results on management and teamwork, and on laws and regulations, are presented
under separate headings. Table 1 below shows an overview of two units of analysis.
Table 1. The energy uses are measured, the CO2 emissions are calculated with the Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency‘s (Naturvårdsverkets) emission factors [11].
Object
Fattighuset
Teatern
Tyreshill
Energy use
216 MWh/year
108 MWh/year
37 MWh/year
CO2 emissions
16.74 tons/year
20.53 tons/year
—
Cultural and historic values
Best preserved
Well preserved
Moderately preserved
2.1. Fattighuset
Fattighuset, Drottning Kristina 2, Halmstad is the best preserved building, but has the highest
energy use. It was built in stages; in 1859 and 1879, and the back wing in 1891 and in 1901. Drawings
for this were made by Hans Strömberg and Sven Gratz, two architects from Göteborg.
The key results are:
(1) The tenants experience poor comfort levels. It is cold during winter in areas around
windows and doors. The attic floor is overheated during summer. There is a problem with
fungus growth in the foundation. A dehumidifier was installed in 2001.
(2) The results from the conservation work are considered to be very good with well-preserved
authenticity and patina. In short, preservation issues in Fattighuset have been given foremost
priority at the expense of indoor comfort and energy issues.
Fattighuset has mainly been used by the fire brigade. Both buildings have a solid red 1 ½-stone
brick construction, and partitions and floors are wooden. The buildings are made of local materials,
worked by skilled craftsmen. They have well preserved original forms, expressive exteriors, and
preserved interior furnishing. Most of the old doors, windows, stairs, floor, and roof cornices etc. have
preserved old features. The almost intact floor plans have a general character, which enables different
activities to take place within them, and as such possesses high architectural quality. The buildings, and
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especially the back wing, have great authenticity and patina. Fattighuset has classification 1 in the city‘s
preservation plan: a building of great cultural and historic value with an exterior that cannot be altered.
The new mechanical continuous exhaust ventilation is placed in a separate room in the attic and the
ducts are visible in the corridors. Fresh air is supplied through vents in the brick wall. The tenants
experience poor comfort levels. It is cold during winter, especially in areas near the fresh air vents and
around windows and doors. On the interior walls, by the fresh air vents, the temperature was measured
as 9 °C, and simultaneously the temperature outdoors was measured as 0 °C. In the oldest part of the
building, on the ground floor, there is a boiler room where the exchanger for district heating is situated.
There is also a problem with the foundation. Fungus growth in the stone foundation occurred in the
beginning of 2001 and was then excavated, and a dehumidifier with continuous measuring and control
was installed. When the conservation was carried out the earlier roof garrets were replaced with roof
windows, and 175 mm of insulation was added to the interior side of the roof. During the summer, the
offices on the attic floor are overheated despite this. The conservation work was carried out in 1996.
After its completion, Fattighuset was let out to shopkeepers and offices.
The measured energy consumption for heat and electricity is 216 MWh/year. Total area Atemp
amounts to 1,062 m2. The definition for Atemp is the area heated to 10 °C or more. The key figure for
energy consumption is 204 kWh/m2 and per year. This is considered high for an old building in this
category, type code 826, according to the comparative key figure given, statistic interval 144–200 kWh/ m2
and per year, when calculating the energy performance of the building at Boverket‘s web site [12].
Fattighuset is heated by district heating and the CO2 emissions calculated are 16.74 tons/year.
Figure 1 below shows the expressive brick façade of Fattighuset and the hose tower, once used for
drying the fire brigade‘s hoses after use. The results from the conservation work are considered good,
with well-preserved authenticity and patina, but, in short, preservation issues in Fattighuset have been
given foremost priority, at the expense of the indoor comfort and energy issues.
Figure 1. Fattighuset‘s North façade, facing Lilla Torg in Halmstad. Photo Eva
Gustafsson, Heritage Halland at the Regional Museum Halland.
2.2. Teatern
Teatern, Laxen 5–8, Laholm, is a well-preserved building with a reasonable energy use. It was built
in 1913 with drawings by Per Lennart Håkansson, and was refurbished in the 1950s.
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The key results are:
(1) In Teatern the original foyer, auditorium, and restroom were restored to their former
grandeur. The ceiling was uncovered. All plastic paint was removed from the walls, and the
damaged parts were restored with traditional paint.
(2) The authenticity in the building‘s appearance is high although it lacks some of the patina of
1913 mostly due to the 1950s refurbishment. The energy efficiency measures have been
nicely adapted to the building and are not experienced as disturbing the interior spaces.
Teatern is the local theatre and has a solid 2 ½-stone brick construction with a plastered façade.
Partitions and floors are wooden, except for the auditorium‘s added inner roof construction of steel. In
Teatern the original interior of the foyer, the auditorium, and the official restroom, for refreshments
and use between acts were restored to their former state with lime plaster and gold. The plastered
façade was altered in the 1950s, but was not restored during the conservation work in 1995. Still,
Teatern is one of the most dominant buildings at Hästtorget in the old town, Gamleby, and has
classification 1 in the cityʼs preservation plan: a building of great cultural and historic value.
Teatern was restored in 1995 within the Halland Model. During the conservation work, 300 mm
insulation was added to the inner vaulted steel roof over the auditorium, and ventilation with both
exhaust/supply air and a heat exchanger for heat recovery was installed. The vaulted windows in the
auditorium were reproduced and partly mounted with three window-panes. These were the main
energy efficiency actions carried out in Teatern. The measured energy consumption for heat and
electricity is 108 MWh/year and per area Atemp. The area heated to 10 °C or more, Atemp, for Teatern is
884 m2. The key figure for energy consumption is 122 kWh/m2 and per year. This is considered low
for an old building in this category, type code 826, according to the comparative key figure given,
statistic interval 123–185 kWh/m2 and per year, when calculating the energy performance of the
building at Boverket‘s web site [12]. Teatern is heated by a gas boiler and the calculated CO2
emissions are 20.53 tons/year.
The authenticity in the building‘s appearance is high although it lacks some of the patina of 1913,
mostly due to the 1950s refurbishment as seen in the building‘s façade in Figure 2 below. The energy
efficiency measures have been nicely adapted to the building and are not experienced as disturbing.
Figure 2. The South façade of Teatern, facing Hästtorget in Laholm. Photo Eva
Gustafsson, Heritage Halland at the Regional Museum Halland.
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2.3. Tyreshill
Tyreshill, Rydö 3:20, Rydöbruk, Hylte, is the least preserved building, with energy use a little too
high, considering the energy measures carried out. It was constructed in 1907, and was both designed
and built by a local builder.
The key results are:
(1) The completion of the restoration shows a very comfortable house, warm, with no draughts. It
has all the facilities needed for a household of today. The appearance and façades are original
but there is no patina in the interior.
(2) The cultural value is considered moderate, but Tyreshill has high value in its context as a part
of the young community‘s history. Usability, comfort, and energy issues were prioritized at the
expense of the original authenticity and patina, due to its poor original condition.
Tyreshill has a solid timber construction and was planned as a private house for three families, but
was remodelled in 1949 for five families. According to the local preservation plan, it is the oldest
house in the industrial community Rydö Bruk. Tyreshill has a typical red wooden panel façade with
white corners, and it was quite dilapidated in the 1990s. The owner at that time wanted it to be
demolished, but the building committee did not allow it. It was renovated in 1997–1998 and most of
the exterior façade is intact, despite the otherwise poor condition. The interior was totally refurbished
and even parts of the construction on the ground floor had to be reproduced. The construction details
of the interior woodwork had to be produced by working from old models. The attic was insulated with
200 mm mineral wool during the restoration, and 45 mm was added to the interior side of the walls.
Low emission glass was selected for the inner panes of the windows. Two wood stoves were installed,
one on each floor, using the original chimneys, along with a boiler for wood-pellets with storage in a
shed on the property with a culvert into the house. The building has floor heating and natural
ventilation. Today one family lives on the first floor and they have a workshop and a pottery on the
ground floor.
The measured energy consumption for heat and electricity is 37 MWh/year and the area heated to
10 °C or more, Atemp, is 235 m2. The key figure for energy consumption is 157 kWh/m2 and per year.
This is considered low for an old building in this category, type code 826, according to the
comparative key figure given, statistic interval 170–208 kWh/m2 and per year, when calculating the
energy performance of the building at Boverket‘s web site [12]. Tyreshill is heated by a boiler for
wood-pellets with a storage tank for heated water, and causes no CO 2 emissions.
The result of the restoration is a very comfortable house, warm, with no draughts. It has a modern
kitchen, bathrooms, space for laundry, and all the facilities needed in a household of today. The two
houses‘ appearance is original but lacks all patina in the interior. Their cultural value is considered
moderate but Tyreshill has high value in its context, visibly exposed and located on the hillside as
shown in Figure 3 below, and as part of the young community‘s history. Usability, comfort, and
energy issues were prioritized at the expense of the original authenticity and patina, due to its poor
original condition.
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Figure 3. Tyreshill‘s façade, towards Southeast. Photo Eva Gustafsson, Heritage Halland
at the Regional Museum Halland.
2.4. Discussion on the Buildings
The key conclusions are:
(1) All planned maintenance, alteration, and conservation should be based on thorough inventories
of the object and its status as well as the users‘ need for a good indoor environment.
(2) It is possible to make a balanced assessment of the different requirements and make a balanced
performance of measures.
In the 1990s the restorations were ambitious about the preservation of values, and this is mirrored in
one of the cases studied, Fattighuset in Halmstad, even though it seems that the preservation of cultural
value had been given much greater weight than issues of energy efficiency and good indoor climate. A
result of that was low usability and difficulties in renting it out. The balanced example with a high
level of preservation is Teatern in Laholm where the energy efficiency measures taken were performed
with respect for cultural value and the energy use is low in relative terms. In the third case, Tyreshill, a
moderate level of preservation of values was obtained considering the poor original state of the
building. Its comfort and usability today are great, but the energy use is a bit too high considering the
energy efficiency measures carried out.
2.5. Management and Teamwork
In Gustafssons‘s dissertation on the Halland Model an application-oriented theoretical platform and
a new model, providing adequate approaches to solve boundary-spanning challenges, is defined. [10].
The keys for the success of the model were:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Horizontal thinking with the choice of a democratic type of management.
Creating involvement by inviting initiatives and discussions.
Small teams to create good working conditions.
A transparent and learning organization.
2.5.1. How It Was
The team organization and management has been explored within the Energy Efficiency in Our
Cultural Heritage (EEPOCH) research, using interviews with six informants. All informants described
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the Halland Model as a success, which was also the view taken by the media. The Halland Model was
created at a time when the national and traditional vertical hierarchy was replaced by a horizontal
regional cooperation initiated by the European Commission, EC. Horizontal thinking was permeating
the whole concept of the Halland Model and also transferred into the teams at the construction sites.
A major strategy for managing the teams was to choose a democratic type of management and to
create inclusiveness. Democratic types are dynamic and transformational, where dynamic leadership is
flexible, seizes initiatives, both task oriented and person oriented, and is often process oriented. In the
transformational sense it is about setting goals and strategies and conveying these to the co-workers to
make them feel involved, engaged, and responsible [13].
A key action was to let everybody on all levels be involved. The overarching objective—save the
jobs, save the craftsmanship, save the buildings—could be understood by everybody at the
introduction and provided a group identity, even in the orientation phase. The typical second phase of
conflict and control was handled by creating a relaxed atmosphere with respect, care, inviting
initiatives, and discussions. A high degree of safety was established at the construction sites, the best
craftsmen were chosen as supervisors for no more than three apprentices at a time and the teams were
small. All measures aimed at creating good working conditions. The organization was transparent and
there was also pride and satisfaction in doing something that was appreciated by many, which was
further reinforced by the positive image of the Halland Model in the media. Evaluations were made for
improvements, which is a sign of a learning organization. The overall assessment is that the
informants, the working teams‘ performance, and the outcome of the restorations were of high quality
and both the workers and management are still proud of it.
2.5.2. How It Could Be
How can similar management and results be achieved today in preservation when we have
completely different conditions within the labor market and in the economy and politics? Earlier
management was linear and problem oriented, focusing on products and projects. Contemporary
management is using system thinking and focus on processes for optimization, and some are using a
systemic approach, recognizing people and complex systems as resources [14].
Using linear assumptions about how different parts in a system work together to solve complicated
problems differs from that which is complex. This is an important difference.
When people are involved, a complex process occurs with paradoxes based on time and identity,
which is based on human perception, interpretation, and action [15]. In non-linear interactions
bifurcations exists within the situation and every situation implies choices, leading to the possibility of
multiple futures and surprising responses [16]. In this, there is no ambition to find optimized
configurations; rather, there are transformative changes creating new contexts.
People are a complex network of living, creative individuals, reacting and adopting dynamically,
and actively trying to create their social environment while being shaped by it. Treating teams and
organizations as complex phenomena means taking account of human behavior and the paradoxes
created in the interaction between people. Consequently it is also an affirmation of the concrete, actual
work performed [15].
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This is taken into account in a systemic approach and used in systemic meetings; where
communication is facilitated through the actors‘ understanding of each other‘s actual everyday life,
with problems, visions, and ideas [17]. The method can be used in combination with other methods,
and could be part of the answer.
2.6. Laws and Regulations
The key results are:
(1) Our built heritage is not sufficiently protected by the legislation.
(2) There is a gap to fill concerning the cooperation between the certified energy experts and
experts on cultural and historic values.
(3) Contradictory requirements in the legislation make it hard to interpret and to follow,
according to the informants.
(4) If restored today, none of the three chosen objects could meet the legislative requirements
for energy efficiency and preservation.
Swedish national and official monuments are well protected by their own regulation [18]. The
monuments out in the counties also have a protective law, the Heritage Conservation Act, KML [19],
which includes buildings, ancient remains and archeological finds, ecclesiastical monuments, and
specified artefacts. In Halland there are about 50 protected monuments of 11,000, identified as
historically valuable serving as documents of history and cultural layers of development.
The question about what measures could actually be performed in older houses when they are
preserved according to the law and mandatory provisions, has a major impact on the results of the
research. The plan and building act (PBL) [20] has been amended during the research, as have the
mandatory provisions, BBR [7]. The law takes precedence over the mandatory provisions and in the
law there is a requirement for caution in relation to cultural, historic and architectural values. There are
also general recommendations but they are not mandatory and do not apply to legal context. In Halland
the new inventory [3] works as an available list on the Internet, open for anyone to use, but it is not a
legal document and in many parts of Sweden there have not been any inventories carried out at all. So
what it is possible to do, on a local and regional level, is for the municipal officials in charge to decide.
There is also law SFS 2006:985 [8] and regulation SFS 2006:1595 [9] on energy declarations. All
buildings and flats rented out must have an energy declaration, but buildings with cultural, historic,
and architectural values are exempt from the requirements. How does an energy expert determine if
these values are present in a building? At workshop II, an educator of energy experts confirmed that
the education does not contain anything about cultural and historic values. Furthermore, there is
education available for becoming a certified expert and inspector of cultural and historic values, as per
legislations BFS 2006:6 KUL1 [21] and BFS KUL2 [22], but they do not contain anything about
energy efficiency or energy measures and their impact when implemented.
2.6.1. Results from Interviews
When interviews were carried out with municipal officials all informants answered similarly. They
would rather consider cultural values than make unreasonable demands on energy efficiency, which
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are impossible to fulfill. Usually, they enlist the help of Heritage Halland, a department of the regional
museum, and of their conservation officers to assess historic values in individual cases. Sometimes,
though, they do not agree and the Building Committee decides on demolition. They all felt that the
legal framework is hard to interpret and in the municipalities in Halland there was a desire for clearer
and simpler legislation. There are fewer legal documents today than three years ago, but the
contradictory requirements for energy efficiency and caution about cultural, historic, and architectural
values in the mandatory provisions, BBR, are not easy to follow.
2.6.2. The Comparison
For all measures, conservation, new constructions, alteration, etc., there is a requirement for a
building permit and it applies for new constructions and existing buildings equally. So also do the
mandatory provisions, BBR [7]. The requirement in BBR section 9:2a for housing in the South of
Sweden is 90 kWh per m2 Atemp and year, and section 9:3a for commercial buildings 80 kWh per m2
Atemp and year, if not heated by electricity, which is shown in Table 2. For buildings heated with
electricity the requirements are even more stringent. If the requirements cannot be met for cultural or
historic reasons, the requirement can be exceeded by 20%. None of the buildings in this research could
manage to meet these requirements if restored today, not even Tyreshill, which was refurbished with
added insulation and new windows. There is also another alternative shown in Table 3 below.
Table 2. Measured key figures, kWh per m2 Atemp and year, for the three buildings and
interval taken from Boverket‘s database for existing buildings of the type, age, and use [12].
Requirements for housing and other buildings in BBR section 9:2a and 9:3a are also shown
for comparison including the figures exceeded by 20%.
Buildings
Fattighuset
Teatern
Tyreshill
Key figures for
energy use
kWh per m2
Atemp, year
204
122
157
Boverketʼs
type code 826
statistic interval
144–200
123–185
170–208
Energy
requirements BBR
section 9:2a and
9:3a
80
80
90
Requirements
BBR 9:2a and 9:3a
exeeded by 20%
96
96
108
Table 3. If the building after alteration does not meet the requirements in sections 9:2a or
9:3a in BBR [7] it should at least have pursued the following U-values, W/m2, K, for the
different construction parts. The three buildings in this research are added for comparison.
Construction part
U roof
U wall
U floor
U windows
U entrance door
U-values BBR
0.13
0.18
0.15
1.2
1.2
Fattighuset
0.15–0.29
1.80
0.26–0.42
1.4–4.5
2.7–4.5
Teatern
0.12–0.14
1.02–1.43
0.18
1.9–3.0
2.29–4.5
Tyreshill
0.18
0.29
0.15–0.42
2.0
2.7–4.5
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3. Approaches and Methodology Connected to the Methods
The core idea of the research design is multidisciplinary, and even if an architect should have
knowledge and control over many subjects he or she cannot be an expert in all of them. To create the
necessary support and guidance a reference group of five people and an expert group of five people are
connected to the project. Their professions are conservators and antiquarians of built heritage, energy
and construction engineers and architects. Some represent the academy and some work out in practice.
Local companies and organizations are also participating: four municipally owned real estate
companies and one municipality, three energy and utility companies, and two minor companies in
energy counseling and in vocational education, and finally the Region Halland and the Heritage
Halland. Six workshops were carried out where in total 95 people attended, see Table 4 below. All
participating professionals, academics, and practitioners could meet for lectures and discussions on the
case, and on the results of the research project and its further direction.
Table 4. The participating professionals in the six workshops.
Participants
Antiquarians
Engineers
Architects
Total
WS I
5
10
3
18
WS II
1
11
3
15
WS III
10
—
6
16
WS IV
2
5
7
14
WS V
5
3
12
20
WS VI
4
4
4
12
The participating professionals have also been consulted for advice and/or corroboration and
support in parts of the multiple case study. Architectural and use values, and laws and regulations
became new embedded units of analysis due to the workshops, which have come to direct the research.
Making use of knowledge and skills in other academic disciplines is interdisciplinary and connecting
academy and practice is transdisciplinary, and the added approaches have rooted the research in
approved practice and theory.
The Multiple Case Study as a Methodology
Case studies can be used for exploratory, explanatory, and descriptive research, as stated by
Robert K. Yin [23], and hence a framework of a multiple case study was an appropriate choice. The
methodology provides a firm yet permissive structure for a mix of methods, approaches, and
embedded multiple units of analysis, according to Yin‘s definitions [23]. According to Yin [23] there
are three principles of data collection to construct validity and reliability of the case study and for
convergence of evidence. These are to use multiple sources, to create a case study database, and to
maintain a chain of evidence, and these principles have been followed in this study. The theoretical
model for balancing requirements will emerge from the cases, some of which show similar predicted
results, a literal replication, while some show predicted contrasting results for anticipatable reasons,
a theoretical replication. In brief it is about using pattern matching and analytical means to generalize a
set of results to explore a possible hypothesis or broader theory. Triangulation has been performed
when investigating the buildings‘ energy performance, and in the assessment of cultural and historic
values. Assessment of architectural values in situ has been performed by one architect, using archive
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information and an approved guide for assessment, and own and other practitioners‘ experiences,
knowledge, and skills. Management and teamwork, and the impact of the legislative framework, have
been illuminated by using interviews.
4. The Methods and the Units of Analysis
The units of analysis are listed in the Table 5 below.
Table 5. Main aspects investigated in this study and the methods and basis for the survey
that were used for each unit of analysis.
Units of analysis
Energy efficiency
Cultural and historic values
Architectural values and
use value
Management, teamwork
Laws and regulations
Main aspects to explore, describe
and analyse
measures
approaches
accomplishments
results
estimates and assessments
approaches
accomplishments
results
estimates and assessments
approaches
accomplishments
results
strategies, methods and processes
approaches
accomplishments
results
content and meaning
impact of implementation
approaches
Methods and base for survey
archive studies and search
measures in situ
calculation of energy balances
literature studies
workshops I-V
archive studies and search
assessments in situ
literature studies
workshops I-V
archive studies and search
assessments in situ
literature studies
workshops I-V
archive studies and search
literature studies
interviews
workshops V-VI
literature studies
interviews
workshops I-IV
All five units of analysis have been applied to the objects and the conservation work carried out.
The three buildings where chosen after screening all of the restored objects and environments within
the Halland Model. The aim was to find examples where the energy measures and preserved historic
values had been balanced.
4.1. Methods Used for Exploring Energy Efficiency
The processes of making assessments of values and energy balances are complicated because the
situation consists of a vast number of interacting elements, which makes the work and calculations
difficult to perform, although all elements and interactions might be known. A complicated process
though, may be divided and reduced to solvable parts for creating optimized solutions. Based on linear
assumptions on how the parts work together, complicated problems can be solved.
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The evaluation of energy performance started with archive studies to find out the buildings‘
constructions and then the assessment was carried out in three ways: with IR camera in situ, by manual
calculations of their energy balances, and by measuring actual energy consumption. Differences in
these figures can show good maintenance but could also detect problems indicating actions to be taken
and showing what can be improved. When preparing the protocol for the manual calculations, eight
different books and guides were used [24–31]. A traditional λ-value calculation was chosen for the
transmission losses through the envelopes and three engineers were also consulted for guidance,
discussion and improvements on the chosen method. Heat loss through ventilation was calculated with
a simplified rule of thumb-method learned from, and used by, practitioners and is a sufficient method
for an architect to use. All methods are reported in Norrström‘s licentiate thesis [32]. No calculation
model is without flaws, but the strength is in using the exact same procedure in every object for an
accurate comparison between them, ensuring the reliability of the case study.
The buildings‘ energy performance, how to assess it, and the different associated measures and
risks, such as mold growth, were discussed in workshops I to IV. In both workshops I and IV, risks for
mold growth, added insulation, and new materials were discussed. The buildings‘ properties, values
and measures and how different professions experience them were discussed in workshop V.
Comments on Calculated and Measured Energy Demand
When comparing the calculated key figures with the measured ones, some assumptions can be
made. The figures are shown in Table 6 below.
Table 6. Comparison of measured and calculated key figures for the buildings.
Buildings
Fattighuset
Teatern
Tyrehill
Measured key figures for energy
use kWh per m2 Atemp year
204
122
157
Calculated key figures for energy
use kWh per m2 Atemp
191
146
174
The difference between Fattighuset‘s calculated and measured figures depend mainly on air leakage
through the openings in the envelope: windows and door which are not airtight, and the air vents
causing a cold draught which has to be countered by increased heat supply. This was not taken into
account in the calculations. Furthermore, the photos taken with an IR camera, together with the
calculations on moisture and condensation in the construction, indicate that there are risks for
condensation and mold growth at thermal bridges.
The low measured figures in Teatern, compared with the calculated ones, are due to the ventilation
system with supply air and exhaust air, with heat recovery, in combination with the flexible and energy
efficient installations adjustable to the activities and the use of the premises. The efficiency and
automatic adjustability of the system was not foreseen and not included in the calculations. The
automatic and adjustable control and regulation system in Tyreshill is the most plausible explanation
for the divergent figures on measured and calculated energy use. When the two woodstoves are in use
the automatic temperature regulation decreases the supply of heat from the main distribution system,
and the extra heat from the woodstoves is not included in the calculation.
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4.2. Methods Used for Exploring Cultural and Historic Values
Data for analysis of preserved historic values were collected from archive files at Heritage Halland
and the municipality archives. Reports, drawings, documents and photos were analysed as well as
information from the evaluation of the physical artefacts in situ. Information from people engaged in
the conservation work was also documented and analysed. The Swedish National Heritage Board‘s
handbook [33] was used for assessment in situ. Basic and enhanced motives for preservation and the
other subcategorized values were defined and processed with the reinforced and overall motives. The
inventory in situ was registered by the investigator, and a conservation officer individually on different
occasions and the data was used for a comparison with earlier inventories for a thorough triangulation.
This was also an appropriate way to enhance the construct validity by using multiple sources of
evidence, according to Yin [23].
Cultural and historic values were also discussed in workshops I to IV in relation to the energy issue,
and possible measures for energy efficiency. Workshop III had risks and opportunities in the heritage
sector and new strategies as a special theme, and the National Heritage Board demonstrated a new
model for assessing historic values at this workshop. The theme for workshop V was the buildings‘
properties, values, and measures and how different professions experience them.
4.3. Methods Used for Exploring Architectural Values and Use Values
Information on how to assess the architectural values was expected to be found in the National
Heritage Board‘s handbook, but the content was not sufficient from an architect‘s point of view. There
is no Swedish handbook, or guide, on how to make an overall assessment of architectonic qualities or
values. The solution, determined after consulting a professor in the theory of architectural history, was
to use CABE‘s, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment‘s, Design Review [34],
which is a tried and tested method of promoting good design.
Usually there are a number of different design approaches, which work in response to a given set of
circumstances when designing for a new site. All these approaches can be of use when analysing an
existing building and its context. This study concerns existing buildings but the Design Review also
applies in these cases. Architectural qualities are signs of value as well as physical properties, and
when they are considered to be good they are desirable both in planned and in existing buildings. Only
the most basic and common aspects were addressed in this study. With archive studies and photos of
the buildings as a base, assessments were performed in situ using the CABE Design Review as a guide.
The guidance delineated by CABE was used to avoid a subjective selection of aspects.
4.4. Methods Used for Exploring Management and Teamwork
In Gustafsson‘s dissertation on the Halland Model, a generic and entrepreneurial concept or model
is developed where the ‗trading zone‘ is defined as an active arena for negotiations and exchange of
services or a field of force corresponding to the actor‘s policies, values and resources. Further on, he
describes the Model theoretically as a network with a collaborative approach, and the research as action
research with an inside agent (Gustafsson) being involved in the whole process of the Halland Model [10].
In EEPOCH the perspective is from the outside, in opposition to Gustafsson‘s inside perspective.
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Interviewing people engaged in the restorations was an explorative process. The first method used
for understanding of the management and teamwork was rereading about leadership and management
from three known written sources; Larsson, Maltén, and Larsen [14,35,36]. Secondly, the archive
material concerning management was studied, and thirdly, a guide was used for learning more about
interviewing. An anthropologist was consulted for advice on how to carry out interviews and Russel
Bernard‘s guide [37] was recommended and used. The interviews and conversations with involved
professions were performed, and finally the partly transcribed recordings were compared and analyzed
to obtain coherent results. This was a time consuming task and three conservation officers, two
engineers and one architect were engaged for open-ended interviews.
Workshop V had properties and values as a theme for discussion to find out how the different
professions—antiquarians of built heritage, engineers, and architects—experience them, how they
make assessments and how they evaluate data. The aim is to compare methods to find similarities
rather than differences, and to learn and create understanding of each other‘s work and profession. The
last workshop, VI, focused on cooperation between the different professions involved in the heritage
sector, a systemic approach was explored, and a systemic meeting was tested with help from an
experienced professor emeritus specialising on the subject.
4.5. Methods Used for Exploring Laws and Regulations
The methods for understanding the legislative framework were mainly reading and analyzing, but to
know how the requirements for energy use and caution were implemented out in the municipalities,
contact with municipality officials, who work with planning and handling building permits, was
necessary. The aim was to find out how municipal officials interpret and use the laws, regulations, and
mandatory provisions. Proper but simple and semi-structured interviews were carried out in the tradition
of social science, using Bernard‘s guide for support [37]. One civil servant and five municipal officials
were addressed. The mandatory regulations were also theoretically implemented in the three chosen
buildings and a comparison was made including the comparison of other existing buildings of the same
type, age, function, and use, details of which are available in Boverket‘s database on their website [12].
The laws and regulations, and their impact when implemented, were discussed from the first
workshop and had to become a unit of analysis, which was not planned from the beginning. The issue
of law and regulation was discussed when it was revealed that a new major refurbishment was planned
for Fattighuset, and it has arisen regularly in almost every discussion and workshop. The outcome of
the workshops has been directing the research in this way.
5. Conclusions
The overall conclusions drawn from the results so far, and in short, are:
(1) There is a risk of losing historic and architectural values due to energy measures being
carried out.
(2) There is a risk that potential for energy efficiency measures will not be realized due to
overcautious management.
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(3) It is possible to make a balanced assessment of the different requirements, and make a
balanced performance of measures.
(4) A new strategic agenda is needed for sustainable development of the heritage sector with
renewed focus on proactive work.
(5) There is a lack of inventories of cultural and historic values in the existing building stock.
(6) Coordination and cooperation between experts on energy efficiency and inspectors of
cultural values would facilitate their work.
(7) A general guide for architectural and use values, for use on a municipal level, would
facilitate the work of local boards of building and planning.
(8) A requirement for antiquarian investigation to determine a building‘s values for protection
could be added to the level of mandatory provisions.
The two risks, stated in the introduction, emanating from climate change and our efforts to cope
with and mitigate its effects, have been illuminated in this paper. There is a risk that the new focus on
energy efficiency for cutting the net emissions of greenhouse gases manifest in the new legislation will
cause loss of cultural, historical, and architectural values. This was a fact in Tyreshill, which was
totally refurbished, but in this case the added insulation did not cause any problems with mold growth.
Looking at the buildings one can see that there are conflicting interests in the supply of heat: low
supply of heat to lower the energy use and costs becomes too low to handle humidity and moisture
problems causing damage to the construction. This happened in Fattighuset, although the façades were
not insulated there. A structure, which is not dry, always has a higher energy demand for keeping the
indoor temperature at a desired level. A good precautionary measure is to always make risk
calculations for moisture and mold growth in all inventories before deciding on any measures or
actions. One comment on Fattighuset must be that air tightness and control of air humidity and
temperatures are also crucial for avoiding discomfort in existing buildings. Furthermore, installation of
mechanical ventilation or air handling systems alters the interior historic values of a building, as in
Fattighuset, if it is not performed with sensitivity, as in Teatern.
There is also a risk that actual energy efficiency potentials are not being realized because of too
much caution. Looking at Fattighuset with its great preserved details, authenticity, and patina, and
measuring the indoor climate, it is evident that the conservation work has been performed at the
expense of energy efficiency and, moreover, at the expense of a good and healthy indoor climate. The
difficulties with interpreting the requirement for caution and defining it clearly in law, regulation, and
mandatory provisions, are potential risks. The balance of different requirements in assessing
applications for building permits can tip to favour either the energy requirement or the preservation
requirement. The balanced example is Teatern, and the work performed there can serve as a guide.
An overall conclusion is that a more coherent and balanced strategic agenda is needed for
sustainable development of the heritage sector, for smaller communities as well as at the national level,
to meet the challenges originating from the climate change issue. Sustainability is at the core of the
work within the heritage sector where long term management includes local or regional and natural,
hence durable materials, using local or regional craftsmen, recycling, and use of renewables. The
traditional protective work within the heritage sector has, through integrated conservation, been
transformed into proactive work and must now focus even more on the proactive.
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The National Heritage Board‘s handbook and guide for assessing historic values and for management
of the restoration process could be updated or a complementary guide could be produced. They have
already initiated a project for this and tested one new method for assessing values. This was presented at
workshop III by the National Heritage Board, and the outcome will be expected in the near future.
Thorough inventories of our cultural, historic, and architectural values in the national existing
building stocks would make it easier for municipality officials, administrating building permits, to
determine when the requirement for caution applies. The lack of a guiding inventory of the existing
buildings and cultural environments also complicates much of the daily work within the heritage
sector. It would in many cases be easier and more practical to have a documented inventory to use and
to refer to.
Our built cultural heritage is exempt from the requirement for energy declarations, but how can the
energy experts determine which buildings and what values to look for? An inventory would facilitate
their work too. Furthermore, there could be coordination between the certifying courses for energy
experts and those for experts in, and inspectors of, cultural and historic values, as well as more
cooperation in general to make them aware of one another‘s work.
The lack of a general guide for architectural values and use values of the kind found e.g., in the
United Kingdom, with CABE‘s guiding principles [34], makes it difficult to maintain these values in
the construction process when an alteration in an existing building is carried out. It would be practical
to have a document to refer to at a municipality level where the decisions are made by the local board
of building and planning, which consists of politicians who are laymen in the field.
Some of the laws and regulations pertaining to heritage and existing constructions are perceived as
inadequate according to the municipal officials interviewed in Sweden. There is an incommensurability
mirrored in the new BBR, the mandatory provisions [7], concerning how to balance the required
energy efficiency with the requirement for caution in historic buildings, and the law PBL [20] is not
sufficiently detailed to be used on the level of handling building permits. The mandatory provisions,
BBR, could be enhanced with a requirement for antiquarian investigation to determine all buildings‘
values for protection if they are 60 years old or older, as Alois Riegl once suggested [38]. Lifting the
general recommendations in BBR [7] to the level of mandatory provisions, where possible, would also
reduce the risk of arbitrary judgments and interpretations of the requirement for energy efficiency as
well as for the requirement for caution with historic values.
These are the main suggestions or recommendations at a national level, arrived at through this
research project. If a similar situation for the heritage sector exists in other geographical areas, which
is not impossible, the parts and the whole of this research can be transferred and be of use for
continued sustainable development within the wider heritage sector.
Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to antiquarians of the built environment Maja Lindman and Britt-Marie
Lennartsson for help with triangulation in the assessment of cultural and historic values, and to the
engineers for all good advice on energy calculations, the expert group and the reference group, and all
participants at the workshops for contributing with their knowledge and great experience.
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This research, Energy Efficiency in Our Cultural Heritage, EEPOCH, is one of the projects within
the Save and Preserve program financed by the Swedish Energy Agency and in this particular case also
by regional and local organizations and companies in the county of Halland, Sweden.
Conflict of Interest
The author declares no conflict of interest.
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