Sára Hrabovszky-Horváth

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Countries in Eastern-Europe have similar characteristics due to their common historical and economic backgrounds. A large part of the housing stock has been built during the Soviet era, applying uniform solutions and similar standards, but similarities extend to other periods as well. On the other hand, the differences should also be noted – althou...

In this paper the solar thermal potential of housing blocks built with prefabricated technology is investigated. For this purpose a calculation method for the estimation of energy production of solar collector system is introduced. The method uses the Reindl et al model to determine the incoming solar energy on the solar collector surface. The mont...

The sustainable refurbishment of the existing building stock is a key issue in achieving the ambitious long-term energy and environmental goals of the European Union. Europe has a vast building stock built with prefabricated reinforced concrete large-panel construction technology after World War II to decrease the general housing shortage, mostly i...

Building typologies have proved to be a useful instrument for an in-depth understanding of the energy performance of certain building types and categories. In the framework of the IEE project TABULA, residential building typologies have been developed for 13 European countries following a common methodological structure. Each national typology cons...

Improving the energy performance of historic districts and their buildings is a balancing act between retaining their heritage significance and allowing the installation of retrofit measures. This paper describes a heritage impact assessment methodology to enable such a balancing process in a well- structured and systematic way. The methodology, de...

Changes in climate have various impacts on the built environment: e.g. the building design and the materials together with the operation and the maintenance. Therefore, it is extremely important to account for the future weather conditions during both the design of new buildings and the renovation of existing buildings. According to the Hungarian m...

The prefabricated reinforced concrete large-panel construction method was spreading throughout Europe during the reconstruction work following the World War II in order to decrease the general housing shortage. During the 1970s and 1980s, altogether 510.000 flats of this type were built throughout Hungary, therefore their refurbishment is inevitabl...

Climate change has a dual implication on the built environment: on one hand human settlements and buildings are vulnerable to the effects of changing climate and on the other hand the building sector has a significant climate change mitigation potential. The relevant sustainable development and building policies as well as the building design, cons...