Estimating the Smart Readiness Indicator in the Italian Residential Building Stock in Different Scenarios

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2018/844/EU introduced the smart readiness indicator (SRI) to provide a framework to evaluate and promote building smartness in Europe. In order to establish a methodological framework for the SRI calculation, two technical studies were launched, at the end of which a consolidated methodology to calculate the SRI of a building basing on a flexible and modular multicriteria assessment has been proposed. In this paper the authors applied the above-mentioned methodology to estimate the SRI of the Italian residential building stock in different scenarios. To this end, eight smart building typologies , representative of the Italian residential building stock, have been identified. For each smart building typology, the SRI was calculated in three scenarios: (a) base scenario (building stock as it is); (b) an energy scenario (simple energy retrofit) and (c) a smart energy scenario (energy retrofit from a smart perspective). It was therefore possible to estimate a national average SRI value of 5.0%, 15.7%, and 27.5% in the three above defined scenarios, respectively.

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This paper applied a methodology to estimate the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) of the Italian residential building stock in different scenarios, revealing SRI values of 5.0%, 15.7%, and 27.5% in base, energy retrofit, and smart energy retrofit scenarios, respectively.