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once the project is closed, hindering
dissemination of good practices or
lessons learnt, preventing feedback
into policy processes and leading to
double efforts when a new project is
launched.
When designing buildings,
transitioning from theory to practice
is more difficult than expected: the
design is often based on simulations,
and when the building is finally
operational, there is very little feedback privacy concerns. Data should be
on the theoretical principles.
This leads to the application of
techniques and approaches that,
despite being theoretically sound,
they are also repeatedly badly
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DATA FOR BUILDING EFFICIENCY
implemented, due to lack of
constructive feedback.
Even the central source of information
on the energy performance of the EU
building stock, the Energy Performance
Certificates (EPCs), are not always
reliable, because some European
countries still lack central databases, the-art buildings and districts.
and where they have them, these are
not necessarily publicly accessible. To … WITH A BUILDING PERFORMANCE
add on that, citizens have justifiable
collected and stored while respecting
EU data protection requirements.
FILLING THE GAPS…
When it comes to solutions, big steps
ahead are being made by several
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initiatives. One is the Buildings
Observatory, launched end of 2016 by
the European Commission in an effort to
mirror the state of the European building
stock. Another interesting initiative is the
ExcEED project, whose aim is to create
a European database for measured and
qualitative data on beyond the state-of-
MONITORING PLATFORM…
The EU Building Stock Observatory
monitors the energy performance of
buildings across Europe. It assesses
improvements in the energy efficiency
of buildings and impacts on the actual
energy consumption of the building
sector. The Observatory tracks many