A Multicriteria Approach for the Evaluation of the Sustainability of Re-Use of Historic Buildings in Venice

30 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2008

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Margaretha Breil

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Silvio Giove

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia

Paolo Rosato

University of Trieste - Department of Civil Engineering; Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

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Date Written: October 2008

Abstract

The paper presents a multiple criteria model for the evaluation of the sustainability of projects for the economic re-use of historical buildings in Venice. The model utilises the relevant parameters for the appraisal of sustainability, aggregated into three macro-indicators: intrinsic sustainability, context sustainability and economic-financial feasibility. The model has been calibrated by a panel of experts and tested on two reuse hypotheses of the Old Arsenal in Venice. The tests have proven the model to be a useful support in the early stages of evaluation of re-use projects, where economic improvements are to be combined with conservation, as it supports the identification of critical points and the selection of projects, thus providing not only a check-list of variables to be considered, but an appraisal of trade-offs between economic uses and requirements of conservation.

Keywords: Economic Reuse, Historical Building Conservation

JEL Classification: Z1, R52

Suggested Citation

Breil, Margaretha and Giove, Silvio and Rosato, Paolo, A Multicriteria Approach for the Evaluation of the Sustainability of Re-Use of Historic Buildings in Venice (October 2008). FEEM Working Paper No. 91.2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1302770 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1302770

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Silvio Giove

Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia ( email )

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Paolo Rosato

University of Trieste - Department of Civil Engineering ( email )

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