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JUNE 2012
afterproject .eu
THE PROJECT
Buildings account for around 40% of EU energy requirements. In the last five years, Social Housing Organizations have played an exemplary role in improving the energy efficiency of the housing sector. They have anticipated forthcoming national legislation and have punctually experimented with the construction of low-energy buildings and innovative energy refurbishment. AFTER aims to promote and continue this effort especially in light of the obstacles and challenges presented by the current economic situation. The AFTER project aims to enable participating and non-participating Social Housing Institutions and Organizations all over Europe to improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock with cost optimal solutions. Its goal is to promote and develop existing European knowledge in the areas of energy saving strategies and encourage their implementation by companies in the housing sector. Social Housing Organizations in 6 different countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Slovenia) and their partners -including National Housing Associations, Scientific Committee and National Tenants Associations- are cooperating to highlight and evaluate the most efficient and adaptable energy saving measures. AFTER asserts the importance of establishing energy efficiency as a major goal even after construction of the building. The project promotes measures adapted to a variety of investments and situations. A special emphasis is placed on the important contributions of operation maintenance and management in the energy performance of buildings. AFTER will participate directly to this effort in improving energy efficiency by 20% according to the target set for 2020 by the European Commission.
SUMMARY
AFTER Presentation .............................. p.1 AFTER ESMs .......................................... p.2 Partners Interviews ............................... p.4 Review of Current works ..................... p.6 AFTER News and Events ...................... p.7 Dissemination/EU News ....................... p.8 Partners ................................................... p.9
DENMARK
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Tenant information in a passive house the Tenants are expected to have an energy-friendly behaviour.
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Ventilation: Balanced mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, by-pass function and a heating coil.
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PazenFensterTechnik: Triple glazing,composite profiles. Wood construction: 450-500 mm insulation ; Double flow ventilation system. Two dwellings share one system.
GERMANY
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Heating system (without DHW) with a central boiler from 1982 changed with a new gas calorific value boiler ad adaptation of the performance.
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Global Refurbishment with ventilation system with heat recovery.
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New Construction in Passive House Standard.
CZECH REP.
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Remote reading of heating energy and water consumption in individual apartments and visualization of data to tenants on web portal.
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Regulation of pressure in the heating system. 149 valves out of 243 replaced.
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Global refurbishment of the building (external insulation, exchange of windows, new lifts, light sensors in common spaces).
SlOVENIA
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Different types of valves and pressure regulators installed on heating systems flow lines, valves on radiators replaced with thermostatic valves, system balanced and regulated.
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Recently refurbished building optimized with best practices display in lobby.
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Low energy building with tenant handbook on how to effectively use heating, ventilation etc.
FRANCE
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New energy contract with performance objective and profit-sharing system with the operator.
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District Heating Season with a new energy mix (substitution of a 100% gas system with a combined system 78% wood - 22% gas).
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Refurbishment 3 years ago.+ ventilation system : Hybrid Ventilation with a control humidity measure to regulate the natural ventilation process.
ITAlY
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Periodic controls of boiler fume, heating system and exchanger cleaning, pumps and valves control.
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Substitution of the two old twin boilers (Brand: Ferroli, Model: Linea II, power: 98 kW each) with one new Condensing boiler (model: YGNIS VARFREE 100, power: 92 kW).
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Insulated coat of 80mm was applied to an existing building of 1960s. Existing single glazing were substituted with high performance double glazing.
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OPERATING MANAGEMENT RUNNING MAINTENANCE REPlACEMENT OF SYSTEMS RECENTlY REFURBISHED BUIlDINGS RECENT lOw ENERGY BUIlDING
what is, according to your opinion, the general approach of the AFTER Project ?
For the architects, the energy performance of buildings has become an important part of designing a new building or renovating an existing building. The architect work with the orientation of the building, the building envelope, building materials, form and function. The life of a building AFTER it is designed should also be an important focus area in the design process. But it is often forgotten. Architects need to be addressed and made aware of their responsibility of including e.g. design of boiler rooms, technical installations, accessibility of the technical installations, position of meters etc in retrofitting and new building projects. Designers and architects should become much more aware and acquainted with the technologies for operation and maintenance in order to develop retrofitting and low energy buildings in our future society. This is one of the main reasons, why the Aarhus School of Architecture have engaged in the AFTER project.
are to be optimized. AFTER focus on the synergy between the two elements and the extra gains that can be achieved. From a scientific point of view it is very interesting to develop methods and tools to reveal the operational problems and problems with operation and maintenance - to improve the energy performance of the building. In other words: Listen to the buildings! In the AFTER project we have an extraordinary opportunity to analyse, optimize and test, how the buildings can function better. The methodological framework of the project has been developed in cooperation between the scientific partners in the project and in a running dialogue with the social housing organisations and associations, and the tenants organisations. The project has inspiration from USA concerning two central elements in the methodological framework of the project:
Can you give us more information regarding the Retro Commissioning and Evaluation, Verification and Measurement concepts within the AFTER Project ?
The retro commissioning (RCx) is defined as the systematic process for improving an existing buildings performance by identifying and implementing relatively low cost operational and maintenance improvements, helping to
ensure that the buildings performance meets owner expectations. Retro commissioning is intended to be an equivalent of commissioning for existing buildings as its main objective is to understand how building equipment and systems function in order to enhance a buildings overall performance. (California Commissioning guide: Existing buildings. California Commisssioning Collaborative, 2006 ) The RCx focuses on offices and industry buildings. In the AFTER project, we focus on the social housing sector, and the conditions in this sector. The results so far show that important elements in RCx and in revealing the problems in the buildings are Registration of the energy use - big variations over the year(s) show, if action is needed. It might be technical or dependant on tenants behaviour or awareness. Registration of tenants complaints can indicate that there are some technical problems in the building that need to be solved. Interview with the caretaker might reveal bigger problems in the building. A structured method with questions and documentation - like the RCx - helps the process. The methods for evaluating, measuring and verifying the pilot sites in the project are developed also with the background of American experiences. AFTER uses the IPMVP (International Performance and Measurement Verification Protocol) as common basis to elaborate its own testing
protocol. IPMVP has been launched in 1995 by the US Department of Energy (North American Energy Measurement and Verification Protocol). Its aim was to provide a general tool to quantify and assess energy savings created by ESCOs (Energy Saving Companies). The IPMVP has been adapted to the AFTER Project in a Common Evaluation Protocol, focussing on the following themes Management Operation & maintenance System exchange Retrofitting Low Energy Buildings This Common Evaluation Protocol follows the general structure of the IPMVP, simplifying some of its aspects. Its main objective is to illustrate a process of assessment that will be adapted regarding specificities of every type of intervention on the housing stock.
3. Typology - a categorization of the different types of ESMs, registered in the Inventory 4. Fact sheets - describing the first selection of ESMs concerning techniques, use, economy and ideas for optimization 5. Retro commissioning - pilot site building check and background for preparing the evaluation of the ESMs at the pilot sites 6. Common Evaluation Protocol - a notebook collecting the different data and results necessary to evaluate the energy performance, the economical performance and the social performance of the ESMs, how to measure, by what means (meters), baseline and reporting periods.
A special task is the social awareness theme in the project. We address some general elements that can be measures, such as vacancy rate and turnover rate. But its important also to look at tenants behaviour and tenants awareness. For this reason the AFTER project has developed a questionnaire to either do interviews or to give to the tenants to fill in. The tenants organisations have been an important and experienced contributor in this part of the development of the methodology.
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Data collection
Factsheets
Pilot Sites
Retro-Commissioning
Typologies
Handbook
Scientific documents
The Scientific partners of the project have achieved two important steps regarding the methodology of the project and especially its implementation phase. Two documents are the main tools proposed to the SHOs: - the Retro-commissioning (RCx) Investigation Plan which develop this concept and propose an operationnal process to social housing companies in order to assess the existing performance of their buildings and to propose optimization solutions to improve their efficiency. - the Common Evaluation Protocol (CEP) which propose a general framework to assess Energy Saving Measures implemented on Pilot Sites. This CEP both presents a process and a tool to collect data according to the characteristics of each ESMs from the several Work Packages included in the AFTER project.
Time line
ESM IMPLEMENTATION
before after RCx implementation
OPTIMIZED ESM
testing phase
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Project Meeting #3
Darmstadt, Germany - 21st & 22nd of March 2012 Partners of the European project AFTER met in Darmstadt on the 21 and 22 of March. The Darmstadt meeting took place at a crucial moment of the project, its main stake was to end the phases of inventory, analysis and assessment of the ESM ( WP3.WP4,WP5,WP6,WP7) and to prepare the phase of selection and optimization of the pilot E.S.M.
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