6th edition of the EeB PPP Project Review 2017

We are pleased to share with you the 6th edition of the EeB PPP Project Review 2017. It’s all related to Energy Efficient Buildings which is important for research and development in this field.

This yearly publication presents the progress and results of 110 co-funded projects within the EeB PPP under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) for 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 and 45 co-funded projects under the Horizon 2020 programme for 2014, 2015 and 2016.

The new edition highlights current results and achieved or potential impact of the EeB PPP Projects. The projects demonstrate scientific and technological excellence, across all levels, from early stage conception to demonstration of almost ready-to-market innovations.

Distributed into 7 technology-clusters defined according to the construction-related research and innovation value chain from the EeB PPP Roadmap (Design, Technology Building Blocks, Advanced materials and nanotechnology, Construction process, Energy performance monitoring & management, ICT and BIM), the 155 research projects featured in this brochure illustrate the diverse innovation approaches and the importance of embracing all aspects of the building and construction sector.

You can download the 2017 version of the Project Review here or on ECTP website.

EiT had a great reception at the World Sustainable Energy Days

At the beginning of March the Energy in Time Project had an excellent opportunity to hold another workshop, a 2-hour session, within the the World Sustainable Energy Days, which took place in Wels, Austria, on March, 1st and attracted around 700 participants from 59 countries. The focus of the workshop was put on the latest results and a specific knowledge related to energy efficiency applied to buildings.

The EiT session started with an overview of the Energy IN TIME project performed by Belen Gómez-Uribarri (ACCIONA Infrastructures), project coordinator. She also shared information about the EiT centralized Remote Control developed within the Project. The attendees could see how this system is able to integrate up to 13 different modules for building operation, ranging from data acquisition modules to exploitation and control modules, among others.

Another partner, Carlos Fernández (University of Granada), spoke about the concept of the EiT integrated solution for building control. He presented the strategies for generating operational plans and the related algorithms, concluding that “the selection of an Optimal Operational Plan can reduce costs and emissions while producing energy savings”. Mr. Fernández also showed the steps followed to implement Data Mining and Big Data techniques in buildings, which deal with processing of huge volumes of data in order to extract specific knowledge.

 


Changing external and internal factors of the buildings may produce deviations from the expected performances. These changes can be detected and corrected by the Model on Demand Control and Fault Adaptive Control, as presented by Tejaswinee Darure (University of Lorraine).  The fault-adaptive control approach has been demonstrated on a four-zone office type building benchmark. The adaptation of the controller to the system and equipment level fault is achieved by online modification of the constraints in the model predictive control.

Finally, so as to verify the function of the developed systems in real buildings, Heikki Rostila (Caverion), summarized the actions performed in the project demo sites. The Optimal Operation Plan Generator (OPG) was implemented in all four demo sites, while other technologies, such as the Model on Demand Control and the permanent commissioning methodology, were been tested in the Santomalo pilot site at this stage. Predictive Maintenance was shown on the Levi pilot site.

The workshop proved to be a perfect place to share with the audience the latest findings to date at each location. In the upcoming months more testing will be done together with the energy savings evaluation. We expect to confirm a 20% energy consumption saving through our research carried out on the four pilot sites.

Stay tuned with EiT! We are always glad to share with you our findings.

 

Additional information

The World Sustainable Energy Days 2017

The European Research Conference: Buildings presents new research results on energy-efficient and sustainable buildings. Conference topics include novel materials, energy storage, building energy systems, smart buildings, high performance buildings, deep renovation, renewable energy and indoor air quality.

The conference is an integrated part of the World Sustainable Energy Days, one of Europe’s largest conferences on energy efficiency and renewable energy.

World Sustainable Energy Days (1-3 March 2017, Wels/Austria)

The next workshop organized by EiT is going to be held within the European Research Conference on March, 1st in Wels, Austria. It is an excellent opportunity to broaden and exchange knowledge on energy efficiency in buildings.

EiT is on its final stage and has already generated various solutions for building control, monitoring, fault diagnosis, data processing and decision making support. The idea is to analyze all the findings and offer them as one single solution and interconnect them on a single platform. Evaluation of the benefits on the basis of the pilots installed in four different climatic European areas and on different types of buildings, is another interesting topic since it provides real data for further scientific and commercial analysis. This will enable the researchers not only to understand, but to quantify the immediate impact on energy savings and generate recommendations for other industries, such as energy and construction, and also for governments.

The invitation for this workshop is open for a broad audience, you can find more details on the AGENDA here and proceed for REGISTRATION here.

Don’t lose the opportunity to take part in this event. Looking forward to meeting you in Wels on March, 1st!

EiT attended ACCEPT held in Málaga, October 13-14, 2016

The leader and coordinator of the Energy in Time project, Belén Gómez-Uribarri from a Spanish company Acciona Infrastructures, took part in the workshop “Construction. New Digital Sector” organized within ACCEPT, an Assistant for quality Check during Construction Execution Processes for energy-efficient buildings, held in a Spanish town of Málaga in October, 13-14. The main focus of this event was on application of Digital Technologies in Construction.

The presented material by Ms. Gómez-Uribarri was centered on Energy In Time Simulation based control for Energy Efficiency operation and maintenance. She stressed the importance of being proactive and the need to include the critical factors related with design, construction materials, indoor environment and users behavior in the planning stage of building creation and construction. The evidences regarding energy savings, comfort improvement and CO2 emissions reduction were shown based on the analysis carried out on the EiT pilot installations in different types of buildings located in four European countries with different climatic areas.

It was also stated that it is necessary to develop and apply the operational plan to the buildings with the aim to save energy, which means that we must know thoroughly internal and external conditions of the building. This strategy allows to detect different models with a target to generate on-demand control or fault adaptive control, for instance.

In the view of all desirable results that the users might be interested in, EiT developed a holistic approach integrating all the different levels of users and the possible tools which provide the needed information in a processed way.

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