{"id":3420,"date":"2012-01-26T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p688098.mittwaldserver.info\/project\/iea-ebc-annex-56-cost-effective-energy-and-carbon-emission-optimization-in-building-renovation\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:08:03","slug":"iea-ebc-annex-56-cost-effective-energy-and-carbon-emission-optimization-in-building-renovation","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.aee-intec.at\/en\/project\/iea-ebc-annex-56-cost-effective-energy-and-carbon-emission-optimization-in-building-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"IEA EBC Annex 56 \u2013 Cost Effective Energy and Carbon Emission Optimization in Building Renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Starting point and motivation<br\/><br\/><br\/>A significant reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions is necessary to slow or stop the climate change. The increase of the energy-efficiency of the buildings is a common implemented option but not the only determining criteria. The challenge to renovate our existing building stock is higher than to build new energy efficient buildings. Furthermore all building and quality standards have been developed for new buildings. Target and limit values, which meet the complexity of renovations, are missing. Therefore the building and quality standards for new buildings are applied to renovated buildings without any adaptions. From an economic point of view it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to renovate the total existing building stock to a high energy efficient level according to those quality standards for new buildings.     <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Contents and goals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>To increase the renovation rate of the existing building stock and to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the building sector, solutions for cost efficient renovations are required. For that reason the objective of the IEA EBC Annex 56 is to develop a methodology for cost effective energy and carbon emissions optimization in building renovation. Within the frame of the Annex 56 not only this methodology should be developed, furthermore also the right balance between energy efficient measures and the renewable energy use should be found. The developed methodology provides the basis for the assessment and evaluation of energy related renovation options. A comprehensive analysis of the different renovation options is necessary to find the appropriate measures for each individual building. Energetic, ecological and economic criteria are part of this comprehensive analysis, including also co-benefits as overall added values. The goal is to develop cost effective energy and carbon emissions optimizations in building renovations with the help of Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Assessments, Life Cycle Impact Assessments (LCIA) and with the identification of co-benefits as an added value to the energy and carbon emissions reduction.     <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Results up to now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Brochure \u201eShining Examples\u201c<\/p>\n\n<p>One of the outcomes of the project is the publishing of a brochure, which compiles a set of shining examples identified by the partners. The current version of the brochure can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea-annex56.org\/Groups\/GroupItemID6\/Brochure%20shining%20examples.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<p>During the development of the project, improvements will occur to this document<\/p>\n\n<p>Methodology for the assessment and optimization of costs, energy use and carbon emissions for building renovation<\/p>\n\n<p>The described methodology provides the basis for the assessment of energy related renovation measures for existing residential buildings and includes the three main impact categories: costs, primary energy demand and carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n<p>The report can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea-annex56.org\/Groups\/GroupItemID6\/STA_methods_impacts_report.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<p>IEA EBC Annex 56 newsletter<\/p>\n\n<p>Further information, developments and results of the project can be found in the official Annex 56 newsletter which can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea-annex56.org\/index.aspx?MenuID=4&amp;SubMenuID=20\">here<\/a>. You are invited to subscribe to the newsletter directly. More information to the subscription can be found on the IEA EBC Annex 56 homepage. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea-annex56.org\/\">http:\/\/www.iea-annex56.org\/<\/a>   <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Project management IEA cooperation:<br\/><\/strong><strong>Operating Agent:<br\/><\/strong>Manuela Almeida, University of Minho (Portugal)<br\/><strong>Subtask Lead:<br\/><\/strong>Walter Ott, econcept AG (Switzerland)<br\/>Piercarlo Romagnoni, IUAV University of Venice (Italien)<br\/>Karl H\u00f6fler, AEE INTEC (Austria)<br\/>Nuno Baptista, ADENE (Portugal)<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Partners IEA Cooperation:<\/strong><br\/>Czech Republic<br\/>Brno University of Technology<br\/><strong>Denmark<br\/><\/strong>Cenergia Energy Consultants<br\/>Danish Building Research Institute<br\/>Danish Technological Institute<br\/><strong>Finland<br\/><\/strong>VTT &#8211; Technical Research Center of Finland<br\/><strong>Italy<br\/><\/strong>IUAV &#8211; University of Venice<br\/><strong>The Netherlands<br\/><\/strong>TNO &#8211; Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research<br\/><strong>Norway<br\/><\/strong>Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences<br\/>Statsbygg<br\/><strong>Portugal<br\/><\/strong>University of Minho \u2013 Civil Engineering Department<br\/>ADENE &#8211; Portuguese National Energy Agency<br\/>Modular Lda<br\/><strong>Spain<br\/><\/strong>University of Basque Country<br\/>University of Navarra<br\/>CYPE Ingenieros, S.A.<br\/><strong>Sweden<br\/><\/strong>Lund University<br\/><strong>Switzerland<br\/><\/strong>econcept AG, Z\u00fcrich<br\/>HES-SO &#8211; University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland<br\/><strong>Tschechische Republik <\/strong> <br\/>Technische Universit\u00e4t Br\u00fcnn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6796,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3420","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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