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Welcome to the #6 issue of RenoZEB’s newsletter!
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Dear readers, This edition is the #6 newsletter from the EU funded project RenoZEB. In line with the COVID-19 crisis, the RenoZEB team is still working remotely on cutting-edge research to achieve the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) standards from all around Europe. Stay updated with our latest news and videos!
The RenoZEB team Why do I get this newsletter? You receive this newsletter, because you have subscribed online on our project page or you are a part of the team. You can unsubscribe at any time here
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‘Train The Trainers’ session
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RenoZEB project organised a Training Day for architects and CPD trainers about the new tools developed in the project for energy calculation, efficiency and optimisation of renovated buildings. This event provided architects from all over Europe with deep knowledge about the newest procedures and strategies for guaranteeing the implementation of key eco-friendly measures in the design process, thus aiming to reduce the emission according to the SOTEU 2020.
The architects were taught to work in Open BIM, meaning that they will be able to implement those tools later in their own studios, independently of their BIM software (Revit, ArchiCAD, Allplan, etc.). Studios that do not use BIM technology can develop fully functional and calculated energy models, not needing any previous knowledge.
Read more at this link and watch the recorded session on our YouTube channel.
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The European Commission Renovation Wave Strategy
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Last week the European Commission published its Renovation Wave Strategy to improve the energy performance of buildings. The Commission declared its willingness to at least double the renovation rates by 2030 and to increase the energy efficiency, affordability and circularity of the renovated buildings. This means that 35 million buildings could be renovated in the next ten years.This large-scale operation can finally address our cities and built environment to a more sustainable model.
The Renovation Wave Strategy follows the State of the European Union (SOTEU) speech by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen where she reaffirmed the Commission’s plan to pursue and strengthen the Green Deal objectives. In conformity with RenoZEB’s underlying principles and objectives, one of the goals stressed by President Von der Leyen is to “kickstart a European renovation wave to make the Union a leader in the circular economy”. Read the RenoZEB press release about the SOTEU 2020 here.
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How can Europe’s existing building stock be upgraded to nZEB buildings by 2050?
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Alex Rathmell, Managing Director at RenoZEB consortium partner EnergyPro, wrote the article "Retrofit zero energy projects - How can Europe’s existing building stock be upgraded to ‘nearly zero energy’ buildings by 2050?", published in RICS Built Environment Journal.
"Long before the discussion of a green post-COVID economic recovery, governments across Europe had already been directed to develop long-term decarbonisation strategies for buildings, via Article 2a of the European Commission’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, Long Term Renovation Strategies pp. 7-10. In practice this means that by 2050, most of Europe’s existing building stock will be upgraded to ‘nearly zero energy’ buildings (nZEBs). The question currently being asked is how this unprecedented transformation can be cost-effectively delivered.
[...] One project that is aiming to tackle a whole range of interrelated technical and market barriers is RenoZEB, running from 2017-21. The project is ambitious, aiming to unlock the nZEB renovation market by harnessing the anticipated uplift in property value that renovated buildings will experience. This will be achieved through a new systemic approach to retrofitting, including innovative integrated façade components, processes and decision-making methodologies embedded in new software tools, and a BIM-based collaborative online environment to bring together all value-chain actors in the renovation process."
Read the full article here, and access to all the RenoZEB open publications here.
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UIPI Coffee Talk: Can the industrialisation process make building renovation more efficient?
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In the framework of the Renovation Wave, industrialisation has been put forward as a solution towards a more efficient construction, housing and real estate sectors.
For this reason RenoZEB partner UIPI organised an online talk about this topic on 2 June 2020, not only to explain what it generally means and implies, but also to present concrete examples and experiences brought by RenoZEB itself.
Project coordinator Michele Vavallo opened the session with an overview on how to accelerate the renovation process. Vavallo’s intervention was followed by the stakeholders discussion: Dr.Veronika Schröpfer (ACE) from the architects perspective, Ann Cathrin Rönsch (EBC) from the construction sector, and Emmanuelle Causse (UIPI) from the property owners perspective.
If you want to know more about this event, you can watch Michele Vavallo's presentation and the stakeholders discussion on our YouTube channel.
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News from the RenoZEB collaborative platform
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RenoZEB Platform is progressing with nice improvements. It allows all the stakeholders in a renovation process to collaborate by sharing information and BIM models, defining KPIs and calculating the score for each alternative based on those KPIs and managing the tasks and issues during the process.
The most recent update enables to query an IFC model on the web by generating coloured representations of given criteria or filtering the elements that fulfil a condition. It supports both building and district scale BIM models thanks to the BIM/GIS interoperability tools developed. BIM models and available information from demonstration building in Durango and Vöru are being used for testing.
RenoZEB collaborative platform was featured on BuildUP, the European Portal for Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Read more here.
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RenoZEB at Sustainable Places 2020
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This year RenoZEB project will participate in three exciting sessions at Sustainable Places 2020 on-line event held between the 27th and the 30th of October. RenoZEB partners will address the project contribution to Digitalisation, European renovation wave and innovative solution for nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB). The sessions will include interesting panels discussion between experts from different European funded. Interesting in learning more about innovative solutions and technologies RenoZEB and other European projects are developing? Join us for our 3 sessions:
‘Digitalization Tools for Energy-Efficient Renovation’ Wednesday 28 October, 13:00 – 16:30 ‘Innovative Solutions Supporting the NZEB renovation’ Friday 30 October, 09:00 – 12:00 ‘Deep renovation Joint Workshop 2.0’ Friday 30 October, 09:00 – 12:00.
Don’t forget to register in the above links. Please, note it is a paid event.
The RenoZEB team is looking forward to e-meeting you there!
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Energy efficient technologies for building envelopes – Hybrid event
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The RenoZEB project will be presented at the event ‘Energy efficient technologies for building envelopes’, organised by Fraunhofer and supported by German National and the EU wide large research networks FLEX-G, Follow-e2, Switch2Save and PowerSkin+, the European Commission and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
RenoZEB will join this workshop to investigate the latest trends and discuss about most promising technologies for energy efficiency in buildings such as nanotechnology, which offers energy saving solutions (smart windows, solar energy harvesting, active energy storage or super insulative elements).
The event can be attended online or at the Fraunhofer FEP Headquarters (Dresden, Germany). Register today at this link.
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Introducing LIFE Level(s), RenoZEB related project
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Life for LCA LCC Level(s) project (short: LIFE Level(s)) is a project funded by the LIFE Programme of the European Union. The project will last for three years, from 2019 until 2022.
The main goal of LIFE Level(s) project is to mainstream sustainable buildings in Europe through greater awareness and use of the indicators within the framework of Level(s), a set of common European Union indicators to address life cycle environmental performance of buildings.
According to previous experience, it is challenging for most European companies to apply the indicators within Level(s) such are LCA, LCC and IAQ, due to a lack of data and a lack of expertise in the industry.
For that reason, the idea behind the LIFE Level(s) project is to work with stakeholders from the public, private sector and certification schemes companies to explore how the mentioned key Level(s) indicators can be implemented on a pan-European scale. The partners engaged in the execution of the project and implementation of its outcomes are 8 European Green Building Councils, recognised for their contribution in spreading the awareness about green building principles and promotion of environment protection and energy efficiency values.
Visit Life Level(s) website!
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649473.
The sole responsibility of this publication lies with the author. The European Union is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
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