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ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS
Driving innovation through
retrofitting and BIM within
Energy-efficient Buildings
By Stefano Carosio, co-chairman EeB PPP Partnership board (pictured)
The Energy Efficient Buildings scale, facilitating the road towards 36% of Europe’s greenhouse gases, the
(E2B) Committee within future smart cities. construction sector is on its critical path
the European Construction to decarbonize the European economy
Technology Platform (ECTP) ECTP – Energy Efficient Buildings by 2050, reducing its CO2 emissions
formed a joint initiative with the Committee provides stakeholders by at least 80% and its energy
European Commission to support the with a yearly publication highlighting consumption by as much as 50%. Due
projects funded within the Energy the progress of the 110 co-funded to this, future buildings are now being
Efficient Buildings (EeB) public- projects within the EeB PPP under the designed and built to far more rigorous
private partnership (PPP). The Energy FP7 programme and the current 41 energy efficient standards and higher
Efficient Buildings PPP aims to develop newly co-funded projects under the performance standards than those of
affordable breakthrough technologies Horizon 2020 programme. The newest the past. However, 80% of the buildings
and solutions at building and district edition of the EeB PPP Project Review that will be operating in 2050 have
highlights current results and achieved already been constructed. Therefore,
or potential impacts of the EeB PPP climate and energy reduction targets in
projects. The projects demonstrate the Building Sector need to be met by
scientific and technological excellence, adapting and retrofitting these existing
across all levels, from early stage buildings. With its large potential to
conception to demonstration of deliver high energy and CO2 savings,
almost ready-to-market innovations. the Building Sector can have a central
Most notably are those projects with role in a more sustainable future for
highly promising innovations involving Europe.
retrofitting and Building Information
Modeling (BIM). Both energy efficiency The FP7 BEEM UP project, completed
retrofitting and BIM have a crucial role in January 2015, demonstrated
in achieving the ambitious European the economic, social and technical
targets, as the project BEEM-UP feasibility of retrofitting initiatives for
demonstrates in deep-retrofitting drastically reducing the energy demand
of buildings within the residential in existing residential buildings. BEEM-
sector, and as the project STREAMER UP directly addressed the challenge of
addresses through the use of novel deep energy demand reduction in the
BIM approaches to optimize new and residential sector on a European scale.
refurbished hospital buildings. The project focused on multi-family
residential buildings with a tenant
RETROFITTING rental structure, which is representative
The European construction sector of almost 18% of the European housing
is of considerable importance for stock. Through 340 dwellings located in
Europe and its citizens. As Buildings Sweden, France and the Netherlands,
are responsible for 40% of Europe’s refurbished with high energy efficiency
energy consumption and generate standards, BEEM-UP was able to
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