Construction principles of seismic and energy renovation systems for existing buildings

Prefabricated façade renovation system in combination with seismic retrofit of certain types of buildings. Developing lightweight and adaptive construction system. Improving thermal comfort, reduce energy demand in building operation. Use the seismic frame and the façade panels to gain additional living space and integrate building service systems. Prefabricated “building systems” for the renovation of façades of existing buildings can achieve not only a physical building improvement of the envelope and thus result in lower energy consumption but also make an improvement in the resistance to seismic stress. To this end, the development of a combination of an exoskeleton and lightweight components as infill for the seismic truss system will be presented. Both a variability of the spatial appearance of the truss as well as the modularization of all construction components as a prerequisite for the prefabrication was examined and the system will be transferred into the real application by case studies as part of an H2020 research project.