ABRACADABRA (ABRA) is an acronym that outlines this research project’s premise: ‘Assistant Buildings’ addition to Retrofit, Adopt, Cure And Develop the Actual Buildings up to zeRo energy, Activating a market for deep renovation’.
The...
The Hotmaps project aims at designing a toolbox to support public authorities, energy agencies and urban planners in strategic heating and cooling planning on local, regional and national levels, and in line with EU policies.
The beta-...
European Industrial Energy Efficiency good Practices platform: the platform dedicated to energy efficiency "Good Practices" in the main industrial sectors.
EU-MERCI project, aimed at fostering and facilitating the implementation of...
Description of the toolkit
Technical Toolkit guides and outlines process for stakeholders to understand, assess and implement the technical assessment required for successful building renovation projects with AddOns. The energy-economic...
Renovating a building can be complex and time consuming. For building owners, the lack of knowledge about what to do, and in which order to implement renovation measures, is one of the main obstacles to improving the energy performance of...
This webinar took place 5 March.
The webinar recording is availabre in our YouTube channel and the presentation through this link.
https://passivehouseplus.ie/magazine/insight/phpp-9-designph
The energy balance and planning tool for efficient buildings and refurbishments
The PHPP is an easy to use planning tool for energy efficiency for the use of architects and...
The latest versions of PHPP and designPH are intended to make passive house design both easier and more accurate than ever before — and to plan for a future powered by renewable energy.
The aim of the Urban Adaptation Support Tool (UAST) is to assist cities, towns and other local authorities in developing, implementing and monitoring climate change adaptation plans. UAST was developed as a practical guidance for urban...
The countdown to transpose the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) has started!
Member States have until March 2020 to translate into national law all the new requirements from the EU energy efficiency legislation...
This webinar took place February 13.
The webinar recording is availabre here and the presentation here.
The Modelica Buildings library is a free open-source library with dynamic simulation models for building and district energy and control systems. The library contains models for:
HVAC systems,
controls,
heat transfer among rooms and the...
The FIT-TO-NZEB project aims to increase the competence and skills of the building professionals in all participating countries - Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia, Ireland, Austria and Greece - through unique educational...
Fit-to-NZEB is an Horizon 2020 project dedicated to improve the knowledge and skills of the building professionals to deliver quality renovations works with significant energy saving impact.
Objective HK BESTCOM:
The objective of the HKGBC Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool - Commercial Buildings (Office/Retail) is to promote better energy performance for commercial buildings by:
Providing an online tool for the building...
Buildings are responsible for over 90% of electricity consumption in Hong Kong and account for more than 60% of greenhouse gas emissions
HKGBC Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool - Commercial Buildings (Office/Retail) and Office Occupants...
eQuest is a freeware, easy to use building energy use analysis tool which provides professional-level results with an affordable level of effort. It allows users to perform detailed analysis of today's state-of-the-art building design...
Tool
The RentalCal Tool
The Horizon 2020 funded RentalCal project (European Rental Housing Framework for the Profitability Calculation of Energetic Retrofitting Investments) aims to improve market transparency for energy efficiency investments in the rental...
RentalCal tool - Rentability Calculation of Energy Efficiency Investments.
Tool
Prosolis Webtool
Since these last years, the application of the European Energy Performance Building Directive (EPBD) has led to a higher interest in summer comfort issue. In this context, the design of glazing complexes (glazing and solar shading) is a...
Web Tool for Thermal and Daylight Characteristics Comparison of Glazing Complexes
The countdown to transpose the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) has started!
Member States have until March 2020 to translate into national law all the new requirements from the EU energy efficiency legislation...
This webinar took place 11 December.
The webinar recording is availabre here and the presentation here.
The International Energy Agency-IEA’s newly-enhanced Tracking Clean Energy Progress provides a comprehensive and rigorous assessment of a full range of energy technologies and sectors that are critical in a global clean-energy transition....
Organized by the H2020 project DR-BOB (Demand Response in Block of Buildings) in collaboration with BUILD UP, the webinar addressed the demand response technology readiness levels for energy management in blocks of buildings.
The webinar...
This webinar took place 5 December.
The recording of the webinar is available here.
ENERINVEST aims to become the Spanish National Platform for financing Sustainable Energy Projects. A reference platform for consulting, meeting and dialogue among the main stakeholders in sectors involved. Technical, legal and financial...
CREATE: Totem stimulates the creativity of designers/specifiers to realize projects that combine all the requirements related to the environmental challenges of tomorrow.
EVALUATE: Totem allows the evaluation of the environmental impacts...
In order to help the Belgian construction sector to objectify and reduce the environmental impacts of buildings, the three Regions of the Country have developed the tool /on-line free plarform TOTEM [Tool to Optimize the Total...
Climate.OneBuilding.Org is e repository of free climate data for building performance simulation.
The website contains typical, single-year climate data files in EPW format from many publicly available data sets from around the world....