1. European Council of civil Engineers
Standing Committee «Knowledge and Technology»
Energy efficient Buildings
Research and Innovation at European level
1.Existing Projects
2.Recent Calls for Proposals
Zaragoza meeting
12-13 November 2010
Georges Pilot. CNISF

2. Needs for Energy efficient Buildings
Fields for Energy efficient Buildings:
- Improvement of thermal capacity for existing buildings
- Construction of zero emission buildings
- Construction of positive energy buildings
>> Important needs for development and innovation in the
Construction sector (Design, refurbishment,
construction)
Research and Development really necessary :
1. European Projects in progress °
2. Recent R&D European Calls for Proposals
° Information from ECCREDI and ECTP lists
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3. 1. R&D European Projects in Progress
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4. “Energy-efficient-Building” Initiative (1)
• BEEM-UP – Building Energy Efficiency for Massive market Uptake
• E-Hub - Energy-Hub for residential and commercial districts and
transport
• ENERGY WARDEN – Design and Real Time Energy Sourcing
Decisions in Buildings
• ENRIMA – Energy Efficiency and Risk Management in Public
Buildings
• FC-DISTRICT - New u-CHP network technologies for energy efficient
and sustainable district
• HESMOS – ICT Platform for Holistic Energy Efficiency Simulation and
Lifecycle Management of Public Use Facilities
• ICT 4 E2B FORUM – European stakeholders’ forum crossing value
and innovation chains to explore needs, challenges and opportunities
in further research and integration of ICT systems for Energy -e-B
• NANOFOAM – New NANO-technology based high performance
insulation FOAM system for energy efficiency in buildings
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5. “Energy-efficient-Building” Initiative (2)
• NANOPCM – New advanced insulation phase change
materials
• PEBBLE – Positive Energy Buildings thru better control
decisions
• SEEMPUBS – Smart Energy Efficient Middleware for
Public Spaces
• SmartCoDe - SmartCoDe to Develop Local Energy
Management Infrastructure
• SPORTE2 - Intelligent Management System to integrate
and control energy generation, consumption and exchange
for European Sport and Recreation Buildings
• TIBUCON – Self powered wireless sensor network for
HVAC system energy improvement: towards integral
building connectivity
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6. FP7 New Projects
Environment Programme
• LoRe-LCA - Low Resource consumption buildings and
constructions by use of LCA in design and decision making
• SUSREF – Sustainable Refurbishment of Building Façades
and External walls.
FP7 New Projects
Energy Programme
• PIMEs - CONCERTO communities towards optimal thermal
and electrical efficiency of buildings and districts, based on
microgrids
• SOLUTION – CONCERTO - To demonstrate the feasibility of
the concept Energy self sufficiency for buildings through
concrete undertakings
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7. FP7 New Projects
ICT Programme (1)
• AIM – A novel architecture for modelling, virtualising and
managing the energy consumption of household appliances
• BeyWatch – ICT for energy efficient homes and
neighbourhoods. Building energy watcher
• DEHEMS – Digital Environment Home Energy Management
System
• eDIANA – Embedded Systems for Energy Efficient
Buildings
• EnPROVE – Energy consumption prediction with building
usage measurements for software-based decision support
• FIEMSER – Friendly Intelligent Energy Management
System for Existing Residential Buildings
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8. FP7 New Project
ICT Programme (2)
• GREENERBUILDINGS – An ubiquitos embedded
systems framework for energy-aware buildings using
activity and context knowledge
• IntUBE – Intelligent Use of Buildings Energy Information
• REEB – The European strategic research Roadmap to
ICT enabled Energy efficiency in Buildings and
Constructions
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9. FP7 New Projects
NMP Programme
• BUILDING UP – Multi-stakeholders, Cross-sectorial,
Collaborative long term Research & Innovation Road Map
to overcome Technological and Non-technological
barriers towards more energy-efficient buildings &
districts
• MESSIB – Multisource Energy Storage System
Integrated in Buildings
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10. New Projects
Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP)- 1
• BEST Energy: Built Environment Sustainability and Technology in
Energy
• E3SOHO – ICT services for Energy Efficiency in European Social
Housing
• eSESH – Saving energy in social housing with ICT
• HOSPILOT – Intelligent Energy Efficiency Control in Hospitals
• ECO2Building (cost and energy efficient solution for commercial
buildings)
• INSULATFH – Enhanced insulation in timber-frame housing using
recycled materials
• BewareE – Energy Services: Reducing the energy consumption of
residents by behavioural changes
• BUILD UP – Second Buildings Platform to support the
implementation of the Energy Performance of Building Directive
(EBPD)
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11. New Projects
Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP)- 2
• CENSE – Leading the CEN standards on energy performance of
buildings to practice. Towards effective support of the EPBD
implementation and acceleration in the EU Member States
• CEP – Certified Training for Passive house Design
• ClearSupport – Paving Way for Better Energy Building Performance
in EU Developed Regions
• CYBER Display – Communicate Your Buildings Energy Rating –
Display
• EDUCA RUE – Energy Efficiency paths in educational buildings
• EIHnet – Energy Intelligent Housing Network
• EnSLiC Building – Energy Saving through promotion of Life Cycle
Assessment in Buildings
• EPI-CREM – Energy Performance Integration in Corporate Public
Real Estate management
• GreenBuildingPlus – Leveraging the GreenBuilding Programme
(GBP) to promote energy-efficiency and renewables in non-
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12. New Projects
Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) -3
• INTEND - Integrated Energy design in public buildings
• New4Old – New Energy for old buildings: promoting the integration
of RES & RUE measures in historic buildings.
• NorthPass - Promotion of the Passive House Concept to the
NorthEuropean Building Market
• POWER HOUSE EUROPE – The big green housing and energy
exchange
• SQUARE – System for Quality Assurance when Retrofitting Existing
• SEPEMO - Build (Seasonal Performance Factor and Monitoring for
Heat Pump Systems in the Building Sector
• ThermCo – Thermal comfort in buildings with low-energy cooling.
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13. 2. 2010 European R&D Calls for Proposals
. Energy-efficient-Buildings Initiative
. FP7. Cooperation Programme : Energy
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14. 7th Framework Programme.
« Energy-efficient-Buildings » Initiative: July 2010 Calls
>> EeB. Thème 3. Information and Communication Technologies
Budget: 20 M€
- ICT for energy-efficient buildings and spaces of public use
>> EeB .Theme 4. Nanosciences /technologies, Materials, new
Production
Budget: 40 M€
- Materials for new energy building components with reduced embeded energy
- New efficient solutions for energy generation, storage and and use related to
space heating and domestic hot water in existing buildings.
- Energy saving technologies for buildings envelope retrofitting
- Geoclusters approach to support European energy-efficient goals
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15. 7th Framework Programme.
« Energy-efficient-Buildings » Initiative : July 2010 Calls
>> EeB. Thème 5. Energy
Budget: 20 M€
- Demonstration of very low energy new buildings
>>EeB. Thème 6. Environment
Budget: 5,5 M€
- Technologies for ensuring, monitoring, and/or controlling a high
quality indoor environment, particularly in relation to energy efficient
buildings
- Operational guidance for Life Cycle Assessment studies of the
Energy efficient Buildings .
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16. 7th Framework Programme
Cooperation Programme,Theme 5 Energy
July 2010 Calls for Proposals
>> Activity energy 2 : renewable electricity generation
Budget: 52 M€
– Photovoltaïcs. Development and demonstration of standardized
buiding components
>> Activity energy 4 : renewable for heating and cooling
Budget: 20 M€
4.1 low/medium temperature solar thermal energy
- Materials for thermal storage systems
- Advanced compact storage systems
>> Activity energy 8 : energy efficiency and savings
8.1 Energy efficiency use in the manufacturing industry and building sector
- Energy efficiency demonstration in manufacturing industry
- Energy efficiency in low-carbon industrial parks
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17. Conclusions
1. There are more and more European research projects in
progress in the field of Energy-efficient-Building.
Web site information is available in order to get up-dated
knowledge.
2. EeB is now the major EC Research topic in our field of Civil
Engineering : important Calls for Proposals are offered to
research institutes, firms and other interested bodies
Good luck!
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