The objective of this project is to develop and demonstrate pragmatic services and appropriate tools supporting quality management in the design, construction, commissioning and operation phase as a means to close the gap between calculated and actual energy performance of the European building stock which is estimated to be in average 25 % for energy performance and 1,5% for comfort performance. The project will integrate different innovative ICT-driven tools supporting the quality management process into building and energy services, and will apply them to a representative set of European buildings (taking into account different climate zones and different energy services). The result of this project will be a comprehensive QUANTUM quality management platform integrating tools, services and processes.

QUANTUM
Project reference: 680529
Funded under:
H2020-EU.2.1.5. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced manufacturing and processing
H2020-EU.2.1.5.3. - Sustainable, resource-efficient and low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive process industries
http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/199801_en.html
From 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Newsletter červen 2017

Ing. Pavla Dvořáková, Ph.D., Ing.arch. Michala Lysczas, Ph.D.

PROF / TRAC targets technical experts, architects and managers involved in nZEB design and construction. The developed European training and qualification scheme will be part of a life-long-life learning process for continuous development and up-skilling of professionals.

Nearly Zero Energy Building construction and renovation requires a large contribution from the building sector and is a challenge for the construction industry. A successful design and construction process towards nZEB construction and renovation requires innovative design processes and technologies based on an integrated design approach and multi-disciplinary work teams. However this approach is not yet common as the building sector still works in a fragmented process. Especially the collaboration between architects, technical experts and managers is necessary to develop mutual understanding of each other’s disciplines and combine skills to achieve optimal nZEB construction and retrofitting in terms of quality, energy efficiency and cost effectiveness. Major barriers of the transformation: Many professionals in the buildings sector have limited knowledge and skills in energy efficient building design and nZEB principles. Lack of collaboration between the different disciplines and professionals. Most of the available trainings focus on one specific target group and on one technique or concept. Lack of harmonised certification and qualification schemes with mainstreamed training materials for building professionals on nZEB. Lack of skills-mapping and qualifications for the specific subject and target groups. Training materials for education and post-initial education are created on an ad-hoc basis without consensus on an underlying qualification framework. Training materials for education and post-initial education should be coordinated and updated for a life- long- learning process. PROF-TRAC offers a solution to overcome these barriers by developing an Open Training Platform and Qualification scheme for Continuing Professional Development for professionals in the building sector. This platform targets technical experts, architects and managers involved in nZEB design and construction. The developed European qualification scheme will be part of a life- long-life learning process for continuous development and up-skilling of professionals.


http://proftrac.eu/

Video from TtT course in Valencia

Objective is to develop and to demonstrate technologies and components for prefabricated modular renovation elements in five geoclusters in Europe. This includes prefabricated durable, innovative, modular composed building envelope elements for the total building envelop for the renovation market, including the prefab integration of multifunctional components for climate control, energy saving, building physics and aesthetics, with advanced easy to use plug&play connections (mechanical, hydraulic, air, electric, prefab airtight joints).

doc. Ing. Michal Kabrhel, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc.

Ing. Jakub Spurný, Ing. Michal Bejček

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., doc. Ing. Michal Kabrhel, Ph.D.

Clear-up : clean and resource efficient buildings for real life
Clean buildings along with resource efficiency enhancement using appropriate materials and technology.
Clear-up presents a holistic approach to the reducing operational energy use in buildings. By development and novel use of nano-materials it aims to increase energy performance in heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and lighting systems, and to improve indoor air quality using catalytic purification. Clear-up’s solutions are designed for retro-fitting existing buildings and of course for new constructions.

doc. Ing. Michal Kabrhel, Ph.D., Ing. Filip Jordán

Clear-up homepage http://www.clear-up.eu/

The IDES-EDU project educates,trains and delivers specialists, both students and professionals, in Integral Sustainable Energy Design of the Built Environment.

In IDES-EDU 15 universities will develop these curricula and training programmes for MSc students and Professionals within a European framework. The courses will be further elaborated and implemented within national consortia in which educational institutes will collaborate with relevant key actors and stakeholders, such as representatives and/or branch organisations of the building sector (constructors, real estate developers, architects, building research institutes, utilities, suppliers, consultants) and accrediting bodies.All EU member states will be addressed in this action by the university exchange programme, potentially involving universities in all member states, starting from the 3rd year of the project.

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., Ing. Pavla Dvořáková, Ph.D.

IDES - EDU homepage
WP 2 EP 9 working space (pwd the same as IDES - EDU homepage)

The project deals with the design of solar systems in terms of embodied and operation energy in the whole system. The input data about embodied energy in solar systems will be obtained and precised within the framework of the project. For the first the project will be focused on large and middle-scaled solar thermal systems.

Ing. Petra Tvrdá, Ing. Stanislav Frolík, Ph.D.

Intelligent Energy-Europe
Establishing an annex for EPBD-related CEN standards for buildings with high energy efficiency and good indoor environment.

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., doc. Ing. Michal Kabrhel, Ph.D.

Buildings without air-conditioning cannot allow for a certain room temperature but for a good indoor environment considering adaptive thermal comfort criteria, e.g. prEN 15251. In spite of highly-developed and many successfully realised projects with passive or low-energy cooling in all European climate zones, there is a strong uncertainty among all persons concerned with building design (architects, HVAC engineers and real estate owners) due to conflicting requirements and standards on the European level and also in the member states. A normative design guideline for comfortable low-energy buildings will contribute to a consistent quality assessment and will overcome the bottleneck of legal uncertainty for not air-conditioned buildings. The ThermCo project evaluates existing data, summarises experience with low-energy buildings and regulatory and provides a proposal for a new CEN-standard annex on low-energy cooling. The implementation of the CEN-standard annex is accompanied by a project team which is deeply involved in the making of EPBD-related standards.
More information:Thermco web page

Ing. Daniel Adamovský, Ph.D., Ing. Miroslav Urban, Ph.D., Ing. Petr Kotek, Ing. Roman Musil, Ph.D., Ing. Pavla Dvořáková, Ph.D.

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., Ing. Daniel Adamovský, Ph.D., Ing. Filip Jordán, Ing. Pavla Dvořáková, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Michal Kabrhel, Ph.D., Ing. Hana Kabrhelová, Ph.D., Ing. Miroslav Urban, Ph.D.

doc. Ing. Michal Kabrhel, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Karel Papež, CSc., Ing. Filip Jordán, Ing. Lukáš Roubíček, Ing. Eva Smažilová

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., doc. Ing. Michal Kabrhel, Ph.D.

Web site: http://www.suntool.net/

Project SUNtool aims to develop an integrated resource flow model and complementary educational tool. This will enable community masterplanning professionals (architects, town planners, etc.) and specialist consultants, from relatively few non-specialist. Inputs to a supportive user interface, to:

• Predict total hourly thermal and electrical energy demand profiles, from the sum of the individual building profiles and for each end use therein.
• Be sufficiently informative to enable the planner to develop an optimal site layout / configuration.
• Predict hourly thermal / electrical energy supply from photovoltaic panels, .solar water heating panels, wind turbines, fuel cells etc. and enable these to be integrated at both micro (individual building) and meso (community-wide) scales.
• Predict hourly refuse and human waste production.
• Predict hourly thermal and electrical energy supply due to district co-generation, with or without energy from waste, and the extent of its utilisation within the community.
• Predict individual and aggregated water demand profiles (potable and non-potable).
• Predict water supply due to recycling and rainwater harvesting technologies, at both micro and meso scales.
• Account for uncertainties in input data as well as occupant behaviour and consumption patterns.
• Produce simplified energy/emissions/economic performance Indicators to test and compare the effectiveness of options to better optimise and harmonise the resource supply and demand profiles.
• Become informed regarding technical and socio-economic issues relating to the Integration of sustainability technologies into communities.

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., doc. Ing. Michal Kabrhel, Ph.D., Ing. Zuzana Veverková, Ph.D.

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., prof. Ing. Miloslav Jokl, DrSc.

prof. Ing. Miloslav Jokl, DrSc., prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc.

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., doc. Ing. Karel Papež, CSc.

Ing. Marta Houšková, CSc., Ing. Zuzana Vyoralová

Ing. Stanislav Frolík, Ph.D., Ing. Marta Houšková, CSc., prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., Ing. Ilona Koubková, Ph.D., Ing. Zuzana Vyoralová

Ing. Miroslav Urban, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., Ing. Daniel Adamovský, Ph.D.

In Czech Republic rise more buildings progressively with energy saving measures. Used buildings are reconditioned on the basis of requirements of the energy-efficiency. It will be often indeed without regard on user of the building and his health. The purpose of the project is to provide a basis for increasing the number of buildings that are both energy efficient and healthy and solutions for the management of indoor environmental quality and health. The health and energy conditions are studied in office and residential buildings in nine European countries. Based on the studies, guidelines will be established of how to improve unhealthy and energy-efficient buildings. In Czech Republic was evaluated fourteen office buildings and dwellings. Results of the project HOPE: “Health Optimization Protocol for Energy- efficient Buildings” is evaluation of the buildings. Classification was performed as from sight of energy efficiency, so especially from sight of indoor environment quality in context ascertained health problems users of the buildings.

There may be a conflict between strategies to reduce energy use and to create healthy buildings. While there is a strong logic to improve energy performance by attention to healthy indoor environments, more needs to be done to realize the potential. Action needs to be directed at both improving guidance on how to realize the potential, and making a convincing case for the building industry to make changes.

The final goal of the project HOPE is to provide the means to increase the number of energy-efficient buildings that are at the same time healthy, thus decreasing the energy use by buildings and consequently resulting in a reduction of CO2 emissions from primary energy used for ventilation, heating and humidity control. To reach this goal the following objectives are set:

• To solve the conflict between strategies to reduce energy use and strategies to create healthy buildings
• To identify European agreed parameters to describe the health status of occupants and energy efficiency status of buildings
• To develop European agreed techniques to assess the health status of occupants and the energy efficiency of buildings
• To develop methods to relate the health status of occupants and energy efficiency status of buildings

The questions that will be tackled in this project are the following:

• What is a healthy building and what is an energy-efficient building?
• What is an energy-efficient healthy building?
• Are buildings with energy saving measures energy-efficient? And what is the health status of buildings with energy saving measures as compared to buildings without energy saving measures?
• How can we assure that buildings are healthy and energy-efficient at the same time?

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., Ing. Zdeněk Reinberk, Ph.D.

SmartHomes CTU web page (http://tzb.fsv.cvut.cz/smarthomes/)

The SmartHomes system enables the monitoring and evaluation of indoor environments and the related control of energy consuming equipment. Data are collected by digital sensors operating under the control of a local Internet gateway device. These data are transmitted to an e-service centre (e-SC) where the service being enacted is registered. Examples of such services include control of critical environments for health and safety, weather-related heating and cooling system regulation and demand-side management at the large scale. The e-SC maintains a central database from where data sub-sets are delivered to e-service providers who operate the e-services. Typically, a provider might raise an alarm (e.g. in response to a high CO level), initiate a control action (e.g. to switch lights or heating/cooling appliances on/off), or provide energy/environment performance information tailored to the needs of customers.

Within the SmartHomes project, several of the identified energy services are currently being tested and proven within field trials tailored to the requirements of four European states: the Czech Republic, Greece, Scotland and Sweeden.

Ing. Marta Houšková, CSc., Ing. Zuzana Vyoralová

Ing. Marta Houšková, CSc., Ing. Zuzana Vyoralová

Ing. Marta Houšková, CSc., Ing. Zuzana Vyoralová

Ing. Zuzana Vyoralová

prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc., Ing. Petr Vávra, Ph.D.