Cultural heritage holds a constitutional status in Slovenia, immovable cultural heritage being its vital part. The most extensive categories of the Register of cultural heritage are buildings and settlements. In accordance with the principles of revitalizing and adapting heritage buildings to contemporary requirements with the aim of their sustainable conservation, energy renovation is also included in the integral approach. Such approach must adhere to cultural protection conditions and include measures that do not threaten the protected values. Energy renovation should be coordinated with other technical measures to meet the essential requirements for buildings. To support these efforts, the national Guidelines for energy renovation of cultural heritage buildings were introduced in 2016 as a manual that supports the conservators’ decisions and informs building owners and renovation contractors about the specifics of the approach to designing and implementing measures. At the end of 2023, the national research project V5-2358 (DEDIS) began, focused to provide an update of the guidelines. The additions will include refreshed chapters on the relevant national and European legislation, characteristics and regulation of cultural heritage protection, necessary preliminary investigations of the condition of buildings, and, as the main part, technical measures of renovation and their interdependence, with a special focus on the installation and use of renewable energy sources. The guidelines will consider the experiences of successful renovation projects and the results of an extensive interaction with key stakeholders through interviews and online surveys. The paper presents the preparatory activities leading to conceptualisation of the refined purpose, goals and content of the renewed guidelines.
Tomšič et al. (Wed,) studied this question.