Achieving sustainability has become an important goal in the construction, refurbishment, operation and management of buildings. To this end, we need to achieve greater information exchange, especially, about practices and solutions for Energy Efficiency (EE) and the use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in buildings. However, in the building life-cycle, complex and disparate information sources are used by various stakeholders, thus understanding, integrating, managing and providing means for sharing such information is a challenging task. In this paper, we analyze the possibilitiesto capture, distill and disseminate expert know-how related to sustainable buildings, addressing the needs of the various stakeholders. A Sustainable Building Profile (SBP) is presented, which is a novel conceptual model designed to integrate information on EE and RES aspects of buildings. The SBP makes it possible to analyse the transformation of a particular building over time. Different stakeholders can use it to study various engineering, operation and maintenance problems in buildings related to energy efficiency.
F.12 Improvements to an existing service
COBISS.SI-ID: 5666401The paper deals with the challenge to expand the energy indicators in the energy performance certificate with a more comprehensive sustainability indicators, covering environmental, economic and social aspect of sustainable building. The climate and energy policy is oriented towards nearly zero energy buildings, with minimized energy demand and maximized on site production of energy from renewables; while the environmental policy anticipates the consideration of LCA at the building product level by the introduction of environmental product declarations (EPD). Moreover, EU green public procurement policy stressed the importance of LCC based thinking. The paper presents FP7 OPEN HOUSE methodology for assessment of building sustainability, based on 56 indicators. The method is being developed in a transparent manner, with public participation, aiming to make the indicators applicable in all EU countries, by using the nationally specific benchmarks and weighting.
F.10 Improvements to an existing technological process or technology
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