In most graphs showing sector-by-sector energy use, buildings do not appear to have themost dominating role. But it has. Contrary to this, buildings probably account for almosthalf of the global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, if we include the productionof building materials, the energy needed during the building process, the life span energyuse of buildings and the energy demanding demolishing phase.As a result, the building sector will be put more and more in the centre. The pressure onthe building sector to develop a smarter energy system will increase.
The EU Member States (MS) have been gradually transposing and implementing theEnergy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) into their own national legislation sincethe Directive was adopted in January 2003. The EPBD is the most significant measureadopted so far by the EU to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings.A main objective of the EPBD is to improve the energy performance of the Europeanbuilding stock. The EPBD proposes certain measures that encourage energy efficiencyimprovements existing large buildings.
Innovative technologies and low energy solutions in the building industry are well known,but are often not preferred in refurbishment of public buildings. Lack of knowledge, costand maintenance are some of the known restraints.The BRITA in PuBs project is an EU-supported integrated demonstration and researchproject that aims to increase the market penetration of innovative and cost-effective retrofitsolutions to improve energy efficiency and implement renewable energy in public buildingsall over Europe.
The aim of the DEMOHOUSE project is to develop minimum standards andrecommendations for energy-efficient and sustainable renovation of social housingestates. Within this, the Decision Support Tool is one of the final results and usesknowledge gathered throughout the DEMOHOUSE project. In many European countries,social housing is owned by housing associations, municipalities or housing co-operations.To facilitate the decision makers in these organisations a simple instrument which helps toselect relevant information for making decisions is developed within the DEMOHOUSEproject.
SARA aims to construct sustainable, cost effective, high energy performance, publicaccesseco-buildings that are immediately replicable at large scale in many locations.
This work evaluates the performance of different façade solutions, comparing simulation results of glass type and (internal and/or external) solar protection, in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the simulations, it was considered as
This paper reviews the results of a series of studies carried out since the early 1990’s to assess the performance of approximately 50 naturally ventilated, hybrid ventilated or air conditioned buildings in Sydney, Australia. A number of significant case
In the frame of the SARA project – Sustainable Architecture applied to Replicable public Access buildings – the Catalan Energy Institute ICAEN carried out different training and dissemination activities taking advantage of synergies with activities and ma
The BRITA in PuBs Information Tool is being developed within the EU 6th Framework integrated project “Bringing Retrofit Innovation to Application in Public Buildings - BRITA in PuBs”. The project has its main focus on the design, realisation, monitoring a
Most advantage eco buildings libraries select, organize, retrieve, and transmit tacit andexplicit information/knowledge. Different reports contained an explicit criticism of thelibraries focus on their specific collections and a recommendation to focus more on userneeds. There is a need to overpass the key limitations in the development of traditionallibraries, which have been developed for a particular content and a specific group oflearners. We suppose that the future libraries will become a practical knowledgestorehouse and will offer intelligent opportunities for people.
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