The QA system should cover both retrofitting and maintenance, since experience shows that a successful energy improvement retrofit will be permanent only if use of the building is guided by effective routines and increase of competence of all parties.
To achieve the intended results of the retrofit requires knowledge, continuity and communication that can be assured by a dynamic and flexible quality assurance (QA) system that describes a systematic and controlled way of working in each country.
The EU project HIGH COMBI aims at development and demonstration of solar thermal heating and cooling systems with high solar fraction. Especially in office buildings, where in the summer period domestic hot water load is typically very small but cooling load is high, solar cooling is a perfect match to a solar heating system.
In most European countries the electricity consumption for air-conditioning is increasing dramatically and it is expected an increasing by a factor of 5 in 2020. Under these conditions the use of solar thermal energy for air-conditioning in buildings has a huge unexploited potential.
Vor allem für ländliche Streusiedlungen ist die zentrale Abwasserentsorgung, wie sie in Ballungszentren üblich ist, nicht zwangsweise die ökologisch und ökonomisch günstigste Variante. Im Hinblick auf eine verantwortungsvolle Nutzung und Schonung unserer natürlichen Ressourcen wurde auch die Notwendigkeit zur Förderung nachhaltiger Systeme in der Siedlungswasserwirtschaft erkannt. Aus Mangel an Erfahrungen wurden in Österreich bisher nur wenige solche Systeme umgesetzt...
Als Reaktion auf die steigenden Energiepreise und um den steirischen Häuslbauern die Installation einer Solaranlage für die Warmwasserbereitung und Raumheizung zu erleichtern lädt Ing. Manfred Wegscheider, Landesrat für Erneuerbare Energien in der Steiermark, im Rahmen von „SPAR mit SOLAR“ zu kostenlosen Informationsveranstaltungen in der ganzen Steiermark ein..
a review of the international conference and exhibition, October 13th - 15th 2005 in Weiz, Austria
The relevant Know-How in the fields of „sustainable building and energy supply” will be gathered. The information will be transferred to the relevant target groups (building promoters, architects, planners, customers). This will be done during workshops, planning assistance and a catalogue of quality criteria. The focus lies on solar thermal systems for multiple-family houses.
In the framework of the Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) a yearly report is prepared, that documents the solar thermal capacity installed in the important markets worldwide.
The goal of the project is the implementation of energetically and economically meaningful energy efficiency concepts in Styian (province of Austria) production companies. The concepts focus on a combination of energy efficiency measures and solar process heat plants.
The goal of the project is to establish the prerequisites for the sustainable use of solar thermal energy in the food and tourism sectors of Nicaragua. To achieve this goal a comprehensive training programme is going to be carried out. Furthermore feasibility studies will be carried out and several demonstration projects are going to be installed in close cooperation of AEE INTEC and CPML (National Cleaner Production Centre Nicaragua).