Reallabor Gebäude – Building as Living Lab for climate neutral, demand-driven and affordable accommodations
Housing is of great importance for the energy transition, because almost 27% of the final energy consumption in Austria in 2021 was accounted for by private households (electricity, heat, hot water) (Source: Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology: Energy in Austria – Figures, Data Facts, Vienna, 2021.) It is therefore […]
BM Retrofit – Development and demonstration of holistic retrofitting concepts for biomassbased district heating networks
Biomass-based district heating networks and systems play a central role in sustainable heat supply covering around 2,400 systems in operation in Austria. Currently and in near future, there is an increased need for retrofitting and modernization of these existing heating networks, especially of the first and second generation, in order to meet current and future […]
buildingTwin – Open platform for monitoring, evaluation and optimization of building operation
In the construction industry, digital building models (Building Information Model; BIM) are used in the planning phases, but these models cannot develop their potential after the building is put into operation and are therefore often only archived. When transferring BIM models of a building from the planning to the operational phase, large information gaps currently […]
KIS 2.0 Graz – Climate Information System 2.0 Graz
Climate change is one of the challenges of our time. Analyses and forecasts show the impact that it has already or that it will have on our daily lives. The city of Graz already has a long tradition in urban climate research. Data from 1986, 1996, 2004 and 2011 have been the basis for important […]
Green Energy Lab: S/E/P II – Spatial Energy Planning for Energy Transition
The GEL S/E/P project series aims to significantly improve and expand processes in urban and municipal energy supply and energy transition planning by providing comprehensive and standardized spatial information in the form of geodata (energy atlas) as well as in the form of automated reports. The energy atlas comprises, among other things, spatial information on […]
ABM4EnergyTransition – Agent-based simulation of energy transition pathways in urban environments
The ABM method takes into account both spatial data to describe the energy system of a study area (buildings, energy infrastructure such as natural gas or district heating networks, local renewable energy potentials) and parameters to describe the decision-making behavior of actors (agents) within this energy system (homeowners, investors, political decision-makers). The methodological approach extends […]
ACR GIS-bEPS – Development of distributed GIS-based Spatial Energy Planning Services
The question of how we can efficiently and cost-effectively heat our homes and supply commercial and industrial sites with low-carbon process heat in the future without the use of fossil fuels cannot be answered exclusively at the level of the individual building or industrial site. Further it cannot be separated from the necessary transformation of […]
SKE Kapfenberg (Modul 2) – Master plan for the expansion and decarbonization of the district heating supply in the municipality of Kapfenberg
The subject of the project is the preparation of a master plan for the expansion and decarbonization of the district heating supply in the municipality of Kapfenberg in accordance with the energy and climate policy principles and objectives according to the legally valid sectoral concept of energy (SKE). As a target within the master planning, […]
climate protection plan for Gleisdorf – Preparation of a climate protection plan for the municipality of Gleisdorf
The question of how we should in future supply our buildings and businesses as well as our mobility requirements with efficiently used and climate-friendly produced energy cannot be answered at the level of the individual object. Neither can it be seen detached from the changes in the heating, electricity and mobility sector. Rather, a multitude […]
SRI2MARKET – Paving the way for the adoption of the SRI into national regulation and market
SRI2MARKET will use lessons learned by countries that are well advanced in rolling out SRI to support and inspire action among those that are not early movers. Für das Projekt wurden folgende Ziele festgesetzt: Objective 1: Support the targeted EU Member States Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Portugal, Spain on introducing the SRI into their national […]