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Autumn 2022 European Energy Innovation
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SmartLivingEPC – Advanced Energy Performance Assessment
towards Smart Living in Building & District Level

SmartLivingEPC aims to deliver a dynamic aspects, building smartness assessment,
certificate that will be issued with the and information on the actual
use of digitized tools and retrieve the performance of the technical systems of
necessary assessment information for buildings provided by technical audits.
the building shell and building systems SmartLivingEPC certificate will be fully
building on BIM literacy, including The new methodologies to be developed compatible with digital logbooks, as well
enriched energy and sustainability-related will be based on existing European as with building renovation passports
information for the as designed and the standards, whereas at the same time, to allow the integration of the building
actual performance of the building. they will trigger the development of energy performance information in
new technical standards for smart digital databases. A special aspect of
This new generation of EPC will provide energy performance certificates. The SmartLivingEPC will be its application in
information in relation to the operational new certification scheme will also building complexes, with the aim of energy
behaviour of the building, by introducing expand its scope, covering aspects certification at the neighbourhood scale. l
a new rating scale, based on a weighted related to water consumption, as Twitter: @SmartLivingEPC
approach of life cycle performance well as noise pollution and acoustics. LinkedIn: SmartLivingEPC

TIMEPAC Towards Innovative Methods for Energy Performance Assessment and Certification of Buildings

TIMEPAC will improve building energy 2. Enhancing EPC schemes by integrating
performance certification processes operational data.
by developing a holistic approach that 3. Integrating smart readiness indicators
considers buildings as dynamic structures and sustainability indicators into EPCs.
integrated in the urban environment. 4. Creation of building renovation
TIMEPAC's approach focuses on the passports from data repositories. The TIMEPAC Academy will provide
seamless flow of data throughout all 5. Large-scale statistical analysis of EPC specific users such as professional
the stages of energy performance databases. certifiers, energy auditors, energy agencies,
certification: generation, storage, analysis ESCOs, architects, building managers,
and exploitation of the EPC. New methods and tools to improve owners, tenants and local, regional and
We have envisaged five future scenarios current certification practices will be national government bodies with training
in which improved EPCs could be used validated in six European countries: materials to enable them to apply the new
as effective tools to improve the energy Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Slovenia methods developed in TIMEPAC to the
efficiency of buildings: and Spain. The results of these trials will energy certification of buildings. l
1. Generating EPCs enhanced with BIM help lay the foundation for new standards Website: https://timepac.eu/
data. and training programmes on energy Twitter: @timepac
certification processes across Europe. LinkedIn: TIMEPAC

MODERATE – Marketable Open Data Solutions for Optimized Building-
Related Energy Services

MODERATE is a Horizon Europe funded For this purpose, the MODERATE
project with the aim to create an open marketplace will allow building
marketplace for building data, connecting stakeholders – such as policymakers, services and creating more economic
data producers with researchers, building owners, facility managers, service opportunities.
developers and building stakeholders. companies – to openly share their
Improving the interoperability of building data, obtain insights and facilitate their With the use of artificial intelligence,
datasets is a key challenge that the decision-making process. machine learning, blockchain/distributed
project is aiming to tackle. ledger and the Internet of Things (IoT)
There’s a fine balance for data owners the platform will enable users to analyse
With the uptake of building monitoring to reliably share this with others while real-time data from various building
& control systems there has been a staying line with the privacy regulations. A systems and provide information on
rising complexity and variety of building key component of MODERATE is the use different indicators of the performance of
performance data, creating the need for of synthetic data generation techniques, a building. l
improved interoperability for different that are not widely applied yet in the Website: https://moderate-project.eu/
stakeholders to be able to share and use construction sector, to allow open better Twitter: MODERATE_HE
each other’s data. data sharing and enable reliable building LinkedIn: MODERATE

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