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The Challenge of Energy Efficiency in Kiruna’s Heritage Buildings

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The town of Kiruna, founded in 1900 in the northernmost part of Sweden, is nowadays in the middle of an impressive urban transformation: due to the impacts of mining activities a large part of the city center has to be moved or rebuilt. Among the buildings to be moved and kept in use are some of the so-called ‘Bläckhorn’ timber houses, designed by Gustaf Wickman in the early 20th century as residential units for the workers of the mining company LKAB and part of the original core of Kiruna. This has raised several questions on the sustainability of renovating historic buildings in a sub-arctic climate. In order to explore the challenge of increasing the energy efficiency of the Bläckhorn houses, data on their constructional and historical features as well as their thermal and energy performance have been collected. The paper addresses the following issues. Historic buildings are often blamed for their poor energy efficiency without considering their usually high constructional quality. What do we know about the real performances of these buildings? Energy retrofits in non-monumental and inhabited historic buildings are often guided by practical and operational needs rather than by their heritage significance. Can a value-based approach affect the improvement of energy efficiency? In a subarctic climate, even simple interventions can help to save a considerable amount of energy in historic buildings. To which extent the energy performances of the Bläckhorn houses could be increased without affecting their heritage values?

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Acknowledgements

Funding for this study were provided by the Hjalmar Lundbohm Research Centre (HLRC), the Swedish Energy Agency through Spara och Bevara (project Smart energieffektivisering av kulturhistoriska byggnader i kallt klimat) and Interreg Nord programme (project EEBAK - EnergiEffektiva Byggander I Arktiska Kommuner).

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  1. Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 97187, Luleå, Sweden

    Andrea Luciani, Sofia Lidelöw, Shimantika Bhattacharjee & Tomas Örn

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Luciani, A., Lidelöw, S., Bhattacharjee, S., Örn, T. (2019). The Challenge of Energy Efficiency in Kiruna’s Heritage Buildings. In: Johansson, D., Bagge, H., Wahlström, Å. (eds) Cold Climate HVAC 2018. CCC 2018. Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00662-4_24

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