Bringing solutions together: Voluntary certification schemes and other integrated approaches in support of deep renovation of buildings

Five Eu funded projects (TripleA-reno, iBROAD, HAPPEN, ALDREN, Fit-to-NZEB) collaborating on integrated tools and methods for deep retrofitting, look at key challenges that need to be surpassed for a breakthrough in building energy improvement, propose specific solutions, and highlight some good reasons for optimism.

Organised by : Architects’ Council Europe, ACE

More information: https://eusew.eu/energy-days/bringing-solutions-together-voluntary-certification-schemes-and-other-integrated

Registration before 02 April 2019, by clicking here.

The European Commission, in partnership with the UN Environment Finance Initiative, is organising a webinar on Participatory Financing for Sustainable Energy on 4 April 2019, from 11.00 to 13.00 Central European Summer Time. This webinar will hear from several presenters:

• An introduction from EASME, The Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises, European Commission;
• Daan Creupelandt, Coordinator at REScoop.eu will share experience from the RESCOOP-MECISE project, working with cooperatives to develop projects for renewable energy and energy efficiency and setting up a financial facilitation service for all European energy cooperatives;
• Esther Bollendorff, Communications Manager at ENERGIRIS will talk about the easyCOPRO project, which uses an innovative cooperative financing mechanism to accelerate the energy renovation of residential condominiums;
• Carlo Allevi, Operations Manager with WeAreStarting will present a case study on the use of equity crowdfunding for non-domestic building renovation

This is part of a series of webinars in the frame of the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums initiative; for further background information on the SEI Forums initiative and to see the agenda and presentations from previous and upcoming events, please visit the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums webpage.

Join ALDREN at the European Energy Efficiency Conference, from 28 February – 1 March 2019 in Wels (AT). The project consortium is organising a join workshop with CEN-CE project and EPB Center on 28 February from 14:00 to 16:30, in the context of the Innovation Workshops Energy & Buildings. The event will showcase ongoing initiatives supporting the actual implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. Check here the workshop agenda.

Read more and register to the conference at: www.wsed.at

INFO

Date: Monday 12 November

Time: 13:30-15:00 (CET)

Location: Room Washington (ground floor), Maison des Associations Internationales, rue Washington 40 1050 Brussels

PRESENTATIONS & POLL RESULTS: click here

DESCRIPTION

By 2020, ALDREN procedure will be formalized in a certification scheme with an holistic approach to the energy rating of non-residential buildings, using the European Voluntary Certification Scheme as a backbone for its implementation. For an effective roll-out of this certification among building professionals, ALDREN assessors will need sound training material and programs. In this view, ALDREN is organizing a first experts training/workshop to present ALDREN approach and to collect feedback from relevant national and European stakeholders about the relevance, focus and exploitation potential of the future ALDREN professional trainings.

The event is organized in the context of the REHVA Brussels Summit, but registration to ALDREN training is free and open to public (up to the maximum capacity of the meeting room). If you want to share your experiences and expectations on professional trainings for buildings energy performance assessments, please register to the ALDREN training session through REHVA website.

Conference “Smart ventilation for buildings”

18 and 19 September 2018

Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France

An overview of the draft programme is now available at: http://aivc2018conference.org/#PROGRAMME-AT-A-GLANCE

There will be a total of 16 topical sessions:

1. Rationale behind ventilation requirements and regulations
2. Integrating uncertainties due to wind and stack effect in declared airtightness results
3. Ductwork airtightness: Ongoing work in some European countries
4. Sensors for smart ventilation
5. Smart ventilation control strategies
6. Performance of heat recovery ventilation systems in practice
7. Air Quality in Domestic Kitchens
8. Development of Indoor Air Quality Metric
9. French initiatives for indoor air quality
10. Demand controlled ventilation in French buildings – 35 years of wide scale experience
11. Commissioning of ventilation systems – Improving quality of installed ventilation systems
12. Measurement accuracy of air flow and pressure difference
13. Supplementing ventilation with gas-phase air cleaning, implementation and energy implications. The new IEA-EBC annex 78
14. Presentation and Discussion of the recently adopted IEA EBC Annex 80 on Resilient Cooling
15. BIM and Construction 4.0 opportunities in relation to ventilation and airtightness
16. Indoor Environmental Quality Global Alliance

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

• Emmanuel Acchiardi, French Ministry of Housing
• Nicolas Doré, French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)
• Jarek Kurnitski, REHVA Vice-president – Chair of the Technology and Research Committee
• Yves Lambert, European Ventilation Industry Association (EVIA)
• Philippe Moseley, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
• Bjarne Olesen, ASHRAE president – Technical University of Denmark.
• Donald Weekes, Indoor Environmental Quality Global Alliance (IEQ-GA)

To proceed with your on line registration please visit: http://aivc2018conference.org/#REGISTRATION

For further information please visit the conference website at: http://aivc2018conference.org/

Mercredi 11 juillet 2018 à 14h00

Espace QUARTUS- PARIS 8^ème : 1-5 rue Paul Cézanne 75008 PARIS

Concilier la qualité de l’air intérieur des bâtiments avec la réduction des consommations d’énergie, ainsi que celle de l’empreinte Carbone, est le défi auquel sont confrontés aujourd’hui les acteurs du secteur de la Ventilation.

C’est à cette réflexion que vous convie l’AICVF à l’occasion de sa première « UNIVERSITE d’ETE » qui se tiendra à Paris le 11 juillet prochain à l’Espace QUARTUS 1-5 rue Paul Cézanne PARIS 8 ^ème, à 14h00.

PROGRAMME

Première partie

• Impacts sanitaires des ambiances malsaines, constats et coût sociétal – Séverine KIRCHNER (CSTB)
• Caractérisation de la performance globale des équipements de ventilation – Marie Clémence BRIFFAUD (EUROVENT CERTITA CERTIFICATION)
• L’air intérieur : dépression, surpression ou équilibre ? – Ophélie OUVRIER BONNAZ (CEA)
• Sinistralité, Assurabilité – (SMABTP)
• Ventilation et Réglementation – Anne Marie SOULIER (DHUP)
• Ventilation et Europe – La collaboration AICVF et REHVA (Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Associations).

Seconde partie

Table ronde 1 « Ventilation dans le Logement » animée par Christian CARDONNEL avec la participation de

• Laure MOURADIAN (CETIAT)
• Clément LAFFETER (VENTILAIRSEC)
• Yvan BORDAS (VIM)
• Une Entreprise de Génie Climatique
• Patrick CARRE (SYNASAV)
• Antoine SAILLARD (IMMOBILIERE 3F)

Table ronde 2 « Ventilation dans le Tertiaire» animé par Priscilla PETINGA (ENGIE) avec la participation de

• Céline DESPORTES (FRANCE AIR)
• Michel DUCLOS (TITANAIR)
• Cyril BLANCHARD (GCLIMATIQUE)
• Marc ALLENBACH (HELIOS)
• (QUARTUS)
• Yann QUINQUENPOIS (DAIKIN)

Les échanges se poursuivront autour d’un cocktail dînatoire.

Multi-stakeholder consultation workshop on the practical feasibility of developing a so-called “Building Passport”

Friday 29^th of June at RICS Headquarters in London from 1.30-5pm

Organized by: Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GABC)

Aldren building passport will be discussed at the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction next consultation workshop

Scope and aims of the H2020 project Aldren! will be presented at the multi-stakeholder consultation workshop on Building Measurement, Data and Information organized by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GABC). The event will be held in London and will be focused on the practical feasibility of developing a so-called “Building Passport”. GABC – Work Area 5 members have decided to explore the feasibility of developing and operationalising a Building Passport as part of its 2018 work programme. To ensure that the tool is fit-for-purpose, they wish to gather feedback from core value chain stakeholders, among which Valencia Institute of Buildings (Spain) has been invited to discuss the topic and give an overview of Aldren, specifically on the building passport that Aldren is willing to deliver to promote a step by step renovation.

About Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GABC): The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GABC) is an initiative launched at COP21, as part of the Lima Paris Action Agenda. It aims to mobilise all stakeholders, including member states and non-state actors from the Buildings and Construction sector to scale up climate actions in the sector. The GABC focuses on the achievement of the low-carbon and energy transition through fostering the development of appropriate policies for sustainable, energy efficient buildings, which allows a concrete value-chain transformation of the sector.

The GABC comprises 5 work areas: public policy, awareness and education, market transformation, finance and building measurement, data and information. The work area on building measurement, data and information is co-chaired by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the government of Ukraine, the Climate-KIC and RICS. Work area members include one GABC signatory country, one UN agency (UN Environment Finance Initiative) and representatives from relevant stakeholder groupings.

How a common language will foster non-residential building renovation – ALDREN project

Webinar in cooperation with the H2020 ENERFUND project

Date: Wednesday 13 June

Time: 10:30-12:00 (CET)

Tool: WebEx webinar

Organizer: REHVA / Contact person: Tiziana Buso tb@rehva.eu

DESCRIPTION

Non-residential building renovation is a complex topic involving different actors such as asset managers, building professionals, manufacturers, public administrations and, of course, building occupiers. Speaking a common language, understandable by all of these actors, is a fundamental step towards the effective and large-scale deployment of renovation plans. This is indeed the aim of the ALDREN project.

This webinar will provide you with an overview of a European Voluntary Certification Scheme (EVCS), conceived as a tool for a harmonised energy rating of the non-residential building stock. The EVCS is the backbone of the ALDREN project, that will further develop the Scheme by including:

• energy performance verification by measurements
• Indoor Environmental Quality criteria

The webinar will suggest ALDREN’s strategy to tackle these challenges and turn them into meaningful indicators. An additional goal of ALDREN is to include these concepts in a Building Renovation Passport for non-residential buildings. In this webinar, ALDREN experts will illustrate how this proposal can fit into the new EU policy framework and how it can relate with ongoing initiatives and existing database. Among these sister initiatives, the webinar will bring up the ENERFUND experience, that shines a light on deep renovation opportunities through map visualizations.

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