Several organizations members of EiT, Energy in Time, took part in the workshop Sustainable Places 2016 held in Aglet, France, on June 29-July 1. This is an annual event co-organized by resilient and performer projects focused on sustainability through energy efficiency on different urban elements: cities, districts and buildings.
EiT, fitting perfectly in this theme, made different presentations focusing on integrative character of the project for building control and reporting on prediction as an analysis of indoor comfort conditions and user behavior performance and automated fault detection & diagnostics. Besides that, the team spoke about Decision Support method for building mid-long term analysis which integrates a dynamic energy simulation model, a LCA method and a LCC algorithm, and Data Mining techniques. The workshop also contained a practical part which allowed the participants to learn from the four EiT demo sites (buildings including an airport, offices and test labs, a commercial and office building, and a hotel) in different climatic areas: Bucharest (Romania), Faro (Portugal), Helsinki and Levi (Finland).
The goals of EiT are to maximize the performance and energy management, improve the efficiency of building operational plans and the lifetime and efficiency of energy equipment and installations. Up to date, no other energy efficient tool or solution has been developed to be applied in nonresidential buildings. The use of the control methods proposed to operate existing building energy systems will result on 20% saving over previous energy consumption.
The workshop concluded with many questions from different viewpoints of the participants such as representatives from industrial companies, RTD performers, specialised SMEs in the field of consultancy, building maintenance, design and energy management offices, investors and professionals form the building sector are targets of the session, and technology providers. Networking, as a complementary part to presentations, provided an additional and necessary time and space to discuss particular topics and questions in details. And finally, as a part of social programme, the participants were offered an exclusive dinner to farewell the event.
