A Systematic Literature Review on Studying Energy Consumption Assessment in Heritage Buildings

1. Introduction

The topic of Energy Consumption of Heritage Buildings (ECHBs) on construction sites has become vital for both the industry and academia, due to the continuous increase of the complexity of construction projects. ECHBs research has witnessed tremendous growth over the past three decades, focusing mainly on increasing its productivity and safety. It is important to monitor a research topic’s growth to identify its trends and gaps. Such a process opens new possibilities for future research. Nonetheless, it is also important to run systematic literature analysis on a research topic, which is the focus of this paper. This paper utilizes a mixed-review method of scientometric and systematic reviews of 210 research papers on ECHBs that have been published from 1994 to 2020 (as of mid of June). The scientometric review has shown a structured representation that clarified the most prolific journals, keywords correlations and geospatial connection between research countries in ECHBs field. At the same time, the systematic review analysis has shown that there are five main research topics in ECHBs.

After discussing some trajectories of ECHBs research, it can be noticed that ECHBs research has reached a high degree of maturity where a wide variety of ECHBs-related problems were addressed by various types of applied methodologies. Despite that, the literature lacks a holistic review on ECHBs. Therefore, this study aims at providing a science mapping of ECHBs research and at clustering of ECHBs research from the perspectives of ECHBs-related problems and applied methodologies. This holistic review paves the way to provide the researchers with future research areas in ECHBs to address the inherent limitations of the previous ones. Although, there no more references on previous studies who have done systematic reviews of ECHBs which is a shortage of knowledge in this field and it’s important to fill this gap in this research.