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Inspection of heating and air-conditioning systems

Sharing information on inspection of boilers, heating installations and air-conditioning systems as required by the EPBD and its recast.

Mission statement

This community aims to share knowledge and discuss experiences on the inspection of boilers, heating installations and air-conditioning systems as required by the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). This community is particularly interested by the transposition of articles 14, 15, 16 and 18 of the EPBD recast by European Union Member States into their national laws. An other issue concerns the methodologies and measurements for on-site inspections of boilers and air-conditioning systems. This community welcomes all professionals, and more generally all persons, that are interested by the topic of inspection.

Theme | Heating, domestic hot water, Air conditioning, cooling, ventilation, air infiltration, Inspection

Contact email: inspection.epbd@gmail.com

Facilitators:

François Durier

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Latest Blog Posts 10 Blog Post(s)

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Alan Abela

16 March 2012 | 0 replies | 478 visits

What is the difference between ground source heat pumps in Northern Europe and air source heat pumps in Southern Europe

Ground source heat pumps are generally referred to as more energy efficent and environmentally friendly. But in Southern Europe where the air temperatures in winter are much higher, can the same ...

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Tags:ground source heat pumps | Southern Europe

François Durier (CETIAT )

19 July 2011 | 0 replies | 2194 visits

Inspection of air conditioning systems: what does the Concerted Action EPBD suggest?

The Concerted Action EPBD (CA EPBD) is a forum funded by the European Commission where Member States’ experts in charge of the transposition of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive have ...

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Tags:inspection | Air conditioning

Nourreddine MOSTEFAOUI (CETIAT)

10 February 2010 | 1 replies | 1859 visits

Boilers inspections and the European Standard

The French regulation, that transposes article 8 of the EPBD about inspection of boilers, does not refer to the European Standard EN 15378 "Heating systems in buildings - Inspection of boilers ...

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Tags:boilers | inspection | national regulations | standard

Latest News and Events 160 items

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Great innovation potential of solar heating and cooling confirmed

1 March 2013 | Austria , Belgium , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Italy , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , United Kingdom

Brussels, 26 February 2013 - The European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling issued a new document on the potential for technological development in solar heating and cooling ...

Submitted by Jeanne Douce |

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European initiative on micro fuel cell-based combined heat and power on the agenda at Hannover Fair

25 March 2013

Deployment of significant numbers of fuel cell combined heat and power (FC-CHP) systems via the European ene.field project will be highlighted at the Hannover Fair. At its ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

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Northern Ireland (UK): amendments to regulations on energy performance certificates and inspection of air conditioning systems submitted to consultation

31 August 2012 | United Kingdom

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2002/91/EC) was implemented in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) by amendments to the “Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000” and by the ...

Submitted by François Durier (CETIAT ) |

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Latest Cases and Tools 18 items

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HERO; HVAC Energy Reporting and Optimisation tool

25 February 2013 | United Kingdom

HERO is an online Energy Reporting and Optimisation application for HVAC systems developed by the iSERVcmb project. By collecting sub-hourly energy use data from around 1600 HVAC systems in EU ...

Submitted by Anita Derjanecz (REHVA ) |

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Tags:HVAC control | energy efficiency of buildings | online monitoring | benchmarking energy data of buildings | HERO project

25 February 2013 | United Kingdom

iSERVcmb Best Practice

Electricity savings of 33 % per year through awareness measures and optimised control of the HVAC system. The report summarizes the results of Cardiff University’s participation to the iSERVcmb ...

Submitted by Anita Derjanecz (REHVA ) |

288 visits | Rating : No votes

Tags:energy savings | behaviour change and energy efficiencies in buildings | building energy efficiency and performance

Heat Pump Best Practice Database

8 January 2013 | Pan European

This "Heat Pump Best Practice Database" mainly results from three European projects. The "Ground Source Heat Pump Best Practice Database" was first developed within the framework of the IEE ...

Submitted by François Durier (CETIAT ) |

268 visits | Rating : No votes

Tags:Heat pumps

Latest Publications and Links 402 items

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Strategic Research Priorities for Biomass Technology

5 March 2013

| Brochure

Submitted by Jeanne Douce |

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Tags:Biomass | renewable heating and cooling | RHC-Platform | Evaluation of R&D and innovation projects

Heat pumps in refurbishment of existing buildings

14 December 2012

| Article

Submitted by Cynthia Despradel (Federation of European Heating and Air-conditioning Associations (REHVA) ) |

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Tags:Heat pumps | energy efficiency | refurbishment

Inspection of boilers and heating systems

17 December 2012

| Slide presentation

Submitted by François Durier (CETIAT ) |

600 visits | Rating : No votes

Tags:inspection | Heating systems

Latest Faqs

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Is it possible to use the HVAC fan itself to measure the airtightness of the ductwork in a ventilation system?

Question by Marianna Papaglastra (Sympraxis Team)

Answered by Peter G. Schild, SINTEF Building & Infrastructure

Answered on 16 December 2009

Visits: 2861 visits

This is generally not possible. In systems with good airtightness, the leakage flow rates are too small for one to be able to accurately measure the flow rate over the fan.

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Tags:airtightness | ASIEPI WP5 | ductwork

Are there means of assessing the performance of alternative cooling techniques?

Question by Marianna Papaglastra (Sympraxis Team)

Theme: General on energy efficiency in buildings

Country: European Countries

Language: English

Visits: 2385 visits

In line with the principle of equivalence, each Member State implements various EN standards into its regulations to assist in the evaluation of the performance of alternative cooling ...

Tags:alternative cooling techniques | ASIEPI | assessment

Why is it important that building certification and plant inspection is undertaken in an independent manner?

Question by Buildup Platforms

Theme: Requirements for experts and inspectors

Visits: 1371 visits

If the EPBD is to achieve its objectives, it is of considerable important that prospective building purchasers or tenants are able to have confidence in energy ...