Conserving the Past for the Future: supporting sustainable rehabilitation of Existing/Historic Buildings

教科文组织《全球文化促进可持续城市发展报告》强调，在北美，城市可持续性对话本身倾向于优先考虑新建筑，而不是旧的遗产建筑。人们没有认识到城市老区的价值，尽管它们具有内在的复原力。历史建筑被专业人士批评为节能建筑？古老的或结构上不合理的，往往是未经证实的假设。 为了简单说明加拿大现有/遗产地点的规模，在加拿大财政委员会秘书处查询“1676年至1968年建造的联邦拥有的建筑物”，得到17，000多处房产。这些财产可能受到联邦遗产建筑审查？ce（FHBRO）审查和指定（目前指定了3，000多个地点）以及联邦遗产建筑所需的修复方法。此外，根据加拿大自然资源部的资料，约有5，460，000所住房的历史超过1977年。目前的研究计划侧重于开发数字化工作？现有建筑物，特别是文物古迹，可以促进可持续发展的突破性政策。这将通过以下方式实现：（1）拟备一份报告，评估以质和量的方法来了解现有和文物地点的能源和结构表现的最新发展水平;（2）开发一些数码作品？如何利用选定的试点案例研究进行记录、分析和可视化;以及（3）为数字工作制定准则和协议？旨在加深市民对现存建筑物及文物古迹的认识。此外，将使用数字保存平台（dataverse）来确保收集和处理的数据的寿命，以便将来其他研究人员可以使用。该计划将为研究生和本科生提供多学科研究培训的绝佳机会，这些学生将在土木和环境工程，数字媒体和人机交互领域得到很好的考虑。

The UNESCO Global Report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development, emphasizes that in North America, the urban sustainability dialogue itself has tended to prioritize new construction rather than older heritage buildings. There has been a failure to recognize the values of older urban areas, despite their inherent resilience. Historic buildings have been criticized by professionals as being energy-inef?cient or structurally unsound, assumptions which are often uncorroborated. To provide a simple illustration of the magnitude of existing/heritage places in Canada, a query on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat about "federally owned buildings constructed between 1676 and 1968" yields over 17,000 properties. These properties are potentially subject to Federal Heritage Buildings Review Of?ce (FHBRO) review and designation (with over 3,000 places currently designated) and the required rehabilitation approach mandated for Federal Heritage Buildings. Furthermore, according to Natural Resources Canada, about 5,460,000 dwellings are older than 1977. The current research program focuses on developing digital work?ows for existing buildings, in particular for heritage places that can contribute to ground-breaking policies in sustainability. This will be accomplished by: (1) preparing a report evaluating the state-of-the-art in dealing with qualitative and quantitative approaches to understanding the energy and structural performance of existing and heritage places; (2) developing a number of digital work?ows to record, analyse and visualize using selected pilot case studies; and (3) producing guidelines and protocols for digital work?ows to improve the understanding of existing buildings and heritage places. Furthermore, the use of a digital preservation platform (dataverse) will be used to ensure the longevity of the data collected, and processed, so other researchers in the future can use that. The program will provide an excellent opportunity for multidisciplinary research training for graduate and undergraduate students that will become well accounted with the areas of civil and environmental engineering, digital media, and human-computer interactions.