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Guidelines on how national Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) schemes and the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) could be linked
Buildings are dynamic environments that have an impact on the comfort and health of its occupants. Latest data-technologies are enabling further capabilities such as the interaction with the occupants or the surrounding built environment. While the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is the scheme of reference to assess building energy performance, the consideration of new services requires the enlargement of its assessment scope. The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/844 (EPBD) requires all Member States (MSs) to transpose new EU rules on the use of energy in buildings into national law by 10 March 2020. This includes the use of new data technologies to accelerate the rate of building renovation, strengthen the energy performance of new buildings and make them smarter. Ensuring data interoperability and transparency, using metering data, smart building management systems or increasing the compliance with other data standards are described as potential ways to accomplish this. The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) is conceived as a new common European assessment scheme to evaluate the readiness of a building to provide services to the occupants of the building, the smart operation and maintenance of the building, and its interactions with the grid. The SRI can be implemented as a standalone instrument, but many of its characteristics make it highly complementary to the EPC, providing added value and enlarging its scope. Nevertheless, implementing a combined EPC-SRI assessment presents many practical challenges such as a potential increase of the assessment costs or the need for additional training. In addition, there are also administrative and social issues such as the differences in readiness for digitalisation across MSs or the need to earn the trust of both the general public and the experts. This report gathers the results of several exercises, performed with the help of an international group of experts representing the ePANACEA target countries (i.e., Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Finland and Spain), to provide some first answers and recommendations to the following main questions: Can a combined EPC-SRI assessment bring additional value to lessen issues currently encountered with the EPC? How should this combined approach be implemented to maximise efficacy? From the above-mentioned work regarding a successful implementation of a combined EPC-SRI approach, there proves to be a clear need for (1) favourable cost-benefits analyses showing that the benefits outweigh the increase in cost, (2) proper and user-friendly communication with the broad public including, but not limited to the additional value offered by the approach, (3) a real opening for new market opportunities linked to the integration of the new data technologies in the assessment, creating business models for current and future stakeholders and (4) digitalisation of the services, eventually leading to an increased accessibility to information – in line with the development of digital building logbooks.
Guidelines on how national Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) schemes and the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) could be linked
Buildings are dynamic environments that have an impact on the comfort and health of its occupants. Latest data-technologies are enabling further capabilities such as the interaction with the occupants or the surrounding built environment. While the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is the scheme of reference to assess building energy performance, the consideration of new services requires the enlargement of its assessment scope. The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/844 (EPBD) requires all Member States (MSs) to transpose new EU rules on the use of energy in buildings into national law by 10 March 2020. This includes the use of new data technologies to accelerate the rate of building renovation, strengthen the energy performance of new buildings and make them smarter. Ensuring data interoperability and transparency, using metering data, smart building management systems or increasing the compliance with other data standards are described as potential ways to accomplish this. The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) is conceived as a new common European assessment scheme to evaluate the readiness of a building to provide services to the occupants of the building, the smart operation and maintenance of the building, and its interactions with the grid. The SRI can be implemented as a standalone instrument, but many of its characteristics make it highly complementary to the EPC, providing added value and enlarging its scope. Nevertheless, implementing a combined EPC-SRI assessment presents many practical challenges such as a potential increase of the assessment costs or the need for additional training. In addition, there are also administrative and social issues such as the differences in readiness for digitalisation across MSs or the need to earn the trust of both the general public and the experts. This report gathers the results of several exercises, performed with the help of an international group of experts representing the ePANACEA target countries (i.e., Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Finland and Spain), to provide some first answers and recommendations to the following main questions: Can a combined EPC-SRI assessment bring additional value to lessen issues currently encountered with the EPC? How should this combined approach be implemented to maximise efficacy? From the above-mentioned work regarding a successful implementation of a combined EPC-SRI approach, there proves to be a clear need for (1) favourable cost-benefits analyses showing that the benefits outweigh the increase in cost, (2) proper and user-friendly communication with the broad public including, but not limited to the additional value offered by the approach, (3) a real opening for new market opportunities linked to the integration of the new data technologies in the assessment, creating business models for current and future stakeholders and (4) digitalisation of the services, eventually leading to an increased accessibility to information – in line with the development of digital building logbooks.
Guidelines on how national Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) schemes and the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) could be linked
Guillermo Borragán (Autor:in) / Anne-Claire Legon (Autor:in)
31.05.2021
oai:zenodo.org:4945549
Paper
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
690
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