Preliminary energy analysis of the school building stock in the province of Caserta

Recent laws based on energy savings in school buildings define clear operating methods for new buildings construction, but they are far from defining a certain strategy that allows to analyze the asfound state of the existing building stock. In Italy over 60% of schools require considerable energy retrofit interventions because they were built before 1976, the year in which the first law on reduction of energy consumption in the construction sector became effective. The aim of this work is to propose a preliminary assessment method to catalogue the school buildings considered as representative of a randomly sample chosen among the main municipalities of the Province of Caserta (Campania region), Italy. By identifying a series of qualitative and quantitative parameters, such as period of construction, quality of window frames and heating system capacity, it is possible to classify the buildings of the reference sample in order to obtain homogeneous and smaller groups. At last, by comparing these groups, it is possible to define i) the most appropriate energy retrofit interventions for each building and then ii) establishing, among these, the priority needed.