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56 Winter 2017 European Energy Innovation

DATA FOR BUILDING EFFICIENCY

The Data Rush: towards an

energy efficient Europe

By Roberta D’Angiolella and Cosmina Marian from the Buildings Performance Institute Europe

Having the right set of the actual performance of buildings THE DATA GAPS
data when designing or and their technologies once they are Despite the importance of having
renovating a building can operational. solid and transparent information, the
be the decisive variable building sector still has to fill many data
for the success of the project. Easy-to- For the decision makers in the building gaps. For example, the many projects
access, transparent and trust-worthy sector, who require high-quality data in on energy efficient buildings financed
data is indeed useful for a range of order to allocate resources to the most every year by the European Union often
actors. For the building manager, to cost-efficient option. Last but not least, include demo cases used to prove
ensure that a building is operated in different other stakeholder groups, the effectiveness of new technology
the most energy efficient way possible, such as financial institutions, require solutions or designs. However, the
respecting the original design. For information that can support informed output data is not centrally collected.
the building designers, to understand decisions (i.e. green loans). Most of the time, the information is lost

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