2.3 Findings and Discussion

After the Guidelines evaluation, some key finding are here exposed:

3. Case Studies Analysis and Selection

In order to validate the procedure, it is necessary to investigate various historic buildings on which test it. Case studies should serve to provide basic data input for the assessment procedure by the examination of the most common categories of heritage buildings in Mediterranean area. Therefore, they also increase the knowledge about the complex cause-effects between use, indoor and outdoor climate, implants and conservation state [37].
Representative buildings of outstanding significance have been selected from a stock of 103 buildings in Sicily, given by Sicily Region and included in the European project PO FESR 2014/2020. A building classification has been necessary for strategically collecting information on case studies. In Figure 6 the building stock is divided in the main 8 building categories.